Therapy Assistant
Support allied health professionals in providing care and assistance to patients.
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- What's it like to be a Therapy Assistant?
- Latest Therapy Assistant jobs
- Top skills and experience for Therapy Assistants
- Therapy Assistant role reviews
What's it like to be a Therapy Assistant?
Therapy Assistants support allied health professionals in providing care to patients. They assist with treatment plans, help patients with exercises and maintain therapy equipment. This role often involves working in hospitals, clinics or rehabilitation centres. Therapy Assistants also document patient progress and ensure a clean and safe environment for therapy sessions.Tasks and duties
- Assisting with the implementation of treatment plans under the guidance of allied health professionals.
- Helping patients with therapeutic exercises and activities.
- Setting up, maintaining and cleaning therapy equipment.
- Documenting patient progress and responses to treatments.
- Supporting patients during therapy sessions to ensure their comfort and safety.
- Communicating with healthcare team members to coordinate patient care and updates.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Therapy Assistant employers on SEEK are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas. Therapy
Allied Health Assistance
Allied Health
Working with Children
Occupational Therapy
Care Planning
Aged Care
Drivers Licence
Psychology
Working with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Latest Therapy Assistant reviews
May 2024
Fulfilling at times but not worth the stress from upper management
Reviewer's QualificationBachelor of Social Science
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeLarge (200+ employees)
SpecialisationCommunity Services & Development
The good thingsI liked the face to face interactions with my participants
The challengesNon-face to face admin
Micro managing from the company
Unfair pay
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Mar 2025
Love seeing kids come out of their shell
ExperienceLess than a year
Organisation sizeMedium (20-199 employees)
SpecialisationSelf Employment
The good thingsSeeing the kids come out of their shell and make friends with other kids.
The challengesIt can be very stressful because the kids can get overwhelmed easily and you have to constantly think of new things to do with them because they are autistic.
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