Exercise Therapy Assistants

• welcome clients to the centre
• help to book them in and remind them of their individual exercise programme
• help clients around the premises, reassure and encourage them, talk with them

About West Berkshire Therapy Centre

Our broad aim is to meet the currently unmet health and well-being needs of the local community and to identify opportunities where we, as part of the 'not-for-profit' sector, can fill some of those gaps and provide helpful, much needed, good quality services. We are planning to construct new premises to include a Hydrotherapy Pool service alongside our award winning power-assisted exercise rehabilitation gym.

Many disabled people find it difficult to take as much exercise as they want or as is generally recommended, limiting their lives and potential.

West Berkshire Therapy Centre is a highly specialised rehabilitation gym, equipped with power-assisted exercise equipment, for the benefit of disabled people from the local community. Following assessment from our therapist, Centre users are able to receive exercise therapy provided by a range of carefully designed and selected machines, easing stiff or reluctant muscles, giving them more strength and co-ordination, improved mobility, better ability to perform tasks of daily living, helping also to manage weight, improve circulation, reduce the risks of serious health problems in later years and more feelings of well-being. Plans are under way to develop a community hydrotherapy pool service on similar lines.

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When is this role available?

Details

Volunteers will be needed to join a rota to ensure there is cover for all of the 30 hours the centre will be open. Volunteers are also needed to cover short periods around 12:00-13:00, to cover lunch breaks.

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