Technical Instructor

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:

We will support you and your community to live well.

Our values:

Supportive and caring, listening to others.

Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.

Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.

We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.

WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.

Job overview

The Rehabilitation at Home Service has a vacancy for a full time Band 3 Community Technical Instructor.

The successful candidate will have a wide knowledge base and experience, be enthusiastic, hardworking and possess exceptional communication skills. You will be well supported by senior therapists, a range of colleagues and via our robust clinical supervision, training and appraisal structure .You will be part of a rehabilitation service completing assessments of need, supporting patients to regain function and maintain independence, providing rehabilitative techniques, exercises and use of adaptive equipment to ensure safety, function and ADL can be maintained in the home.

If working in community excites you, and you are thinking about a new role or place to work, we would love to hear from you.

Please contact Michelle Carter or Carla Link on 0151 514 2444 or email [email protected] or [email protected].

Main duties of the job

Monitoring functional abilities, at each visit and reporting back to therapists any changes such as improvements or decline, concerns or new needs to enable further therapy interventions as required.

Working for our organisation

Wirral Health and Social Care Community Trust is a forward thinking, developing but established Trust , committed to delivering high standards of care to all patients, and committed to support improvement in services. It supports it's staff to develop their skills, knowledge, providing internal training, opportunity for external training to achieve personal development and supporting career development.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Working with patients and carers, completing assessments of need, supporting patients to regain function and maintain independence, providing rehabilitative techniques, exercises and use of adaptive equipment to ensure safety, function and ADL can be maintained in the home.

Person specification

Qualifications and professional training

• GCSE’s @ C or above in Maths, English
• NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care or equivalent
• Good rounded general education
• Competent Computer Skills:- Microsoft office/ word and Outlook

Experience and knowledge

• Previous Healthcare Experience, working with patients/customers
• Understanding of Patient Care Activities
• Experience / awareness of exercise

• Experience working as a therapy assistant supporting OTs and Physios

Skills and Attributes

• Excellent Communication Skills adapting easily to patients and therapists
• Ability to be appropriately sensitive to patient’s needs
• Ability to plan and organise own work
• Confident managing patient data and information
• Ability to assume responsibility for designated areas of work

Personal Qualities

• Ability to work under pressure
• Confidentiality
• Willingness to contribute to own Continuing Professional development
• Flexible and adaptable
• Car driver and access to car for work purposes
• Ability to work as part of a team

Important Information

By applying for this post you are agreeing to Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust transferring the information contained in this application to its preferred applicant management system. If you are appointed to a post information will also be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Record system.

For further information explaining how we use your information in line with GDPR please see our ‘Guidance for applicants’ document under the section 'Additional documentation'.

We are committed to having a team that is made up of diverse skills, experiences and abilities. We actively encourage BAME, LGBTQ+ and disabled applicants and value the positive impact that difference has on our teams. We are committed to equality and diversity within our workforce and are keen to support reasonable adjustments to support our new and existing staff.

We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.

Further Information:

Closing Dates: Candidates are advised to apply early. The Trust reserves the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date if a high number of applications are received.

Reference Information: Please ensure your application is submitted with referees who can verify your employment/ education history over the last three years and include valid business email addresses for them. The Trust will not accept personal references from friends or family.

Salary Expectations: The Trust pays staff in line with national NHS Terms and Conditions. Relevant experience may be considered when salary offers are made. For all part-time positions, salaries are pro-rata.

Restricted Applications: Staff on the Trust's Redeployment Register will be given priority access to vacancies at their substantive band.

Flexible Working: Flexible working is very important to the Trust in both the provision of this to staff and also in staff supporting the provision of our services.

We remain vigilant against candidates who misuse these tools to generate an application that doesn’t accurately reflect their skills.

English Language: In order to comply with Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, we are required to ensure that all employees possess "the ability to fulfil all spoken aspects of the role with confidence through the medium of English.” If you have not studied at an English speaking institute, or do not possess an English language qualification, you should provide evidence in your application of how you meet this requirement.

• applied for a Graduate visa
• or you will have successfully completed your course and have applied for a Graduate visa before the anticipated start date of your employment.

Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust is committed to discharging its statutory duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and adults and will support staff to fulfil this duty.