NHS - Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant
Job overview
CLCH Hertfordshire Adult Community Services - CLCH NHS Trust provides a range of Community Services, and the Hertfordshire Division is recruiting!
We are seeking an enthusiastic band 4 rehabilitation assistant to join our Urgent Community Response team, delivering care to patients closer to home and preventing unnecessary hospital admission in west Hertfordshire.
The Urgent Community Response team comprises five pathways delivered over 7-day working: Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 (DTA); Discharge to Assess Pathway 2, Rapid Response (RR), Frailty Hospital@Home and Early intervention Vehicle (EIV). This role will primarily work under the Discharge to Assess and Rapid Response pathways, but may require the candidate to work across the other pathways when required.All pathways deliver nursing and therapy care in a patient’s usual home environment.
Main duties of the job
RR focuses on preventing avoidable hospital admissions for patients with acute ill-health conditions by providing holistic assessment within 2 hours of referral and treatments over a 5 day pathway.
DTA supports the discharge of patients from acute and community hospitals to assess and manage rehabilitation/therapy needs to facilitate a safe discharge from hospital when the patient is medically well enough to go home. The pathway is delivered in conjunction with Adult Social Care to support the patient’s reablement.
Working for our organisation
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
To have a full look at our benefits and what it’s like working for us please go here: https://www.clch.nhs.uk/job/pay-and-benefits
Detailed job description and main responsibilities- To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy/ Physiotherapy service to all patients.
- To be an active member of the clinical team working within standard operating procedures and pathways to manage your own workload independently but with reference to a supervisor within the clinical team.
- To support the team by assessing patients and implementing programmes of care ensuring that you follow professional standards, promote best practice and work within your sphere of competence and knowledge.
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing, treating, and managing own caseload of patients and maintaining professional documentation.
**Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full roles and responsibilities.**
Person specification
Personal/Physical Attributes
Essential criteria- Personally and professionally responsible.
- Willing and able to work as a team member.
- Confident to work as an autonomous practitioner, alone in community settings.
- Able to work under pressure.
- Good planning and organisational skills in order to manage own workload
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, in both verbal and written format, including report writing skills.
- Able to carry out moderate physical effort throughout the day.
- Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Willing to participate in any relevant training/qualification identified to develop skills required to carry out duties.
- Care qualification to NVQ 3 or equivalent experience.
- GCSE English and Maths grade 9 - 4 or equivalent.
- Evidence of previous learning related to clinical area to diploma level.
- Trusted assessor level 3 training
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience of working within a health or social care setting without direct supervision.
- Experience of organising and prioritising your own workload.
- Experience of working as part of a team.
- Experience providing mobility aids and carrying out exercise programmes as directed by senior therapists.
- Ability to instruct patient/carers in relation to use of equipment and therapy interventions – exercise, safe handling etc.
- Experience working as a rehab assistant in an adult and/or elderly setting.
- Previous experience of working in the NHS.
- Experience of community working.
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- Demonstrates an understanding of the role applied for within the clinical context.
- Knowledge and understanding of responsibilities related to patient information and record keeping, including updating records and managing patient information.
- Knowledge of common clinical conditions which may be encountered in this area of work e.g. older adults, falls, neurology, orthopaedics.
- Demonstrates awareness of limits to knowledge base.
- Awareness of responsibilities regarding health and safety particularly when working without direct supervision.
- Ability to problem solve and prioritise.
- Ability to communicate clearly and effectively, in both verbal and written format.
- Strong I.T skills.
- Ability to effectively use SystmOne and Microsoft teams.
- Understanding of professional roles relevant to clinical area e.g. nurse, therapists, dietician.
Due to the high number of applications that are received for some posts we may close this vacancy before the advertised closing date. Therefore please apply for this post as soon as you can, if you are interested and you meet the requirements of the Person Specification
Only those candidates who clearly demonstrate how they meet the person specification will be shortlisted for this job.
Interview arrangements will be communicated via email so please check your email regularly following the closing date.
At CLCH we appreciate and are proud of the diversity in the communities we serve and the workforce we employ. Applications are open and welcome to anyone, regardless of your age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, ethnicity, religion, and disability.
We are proud to say that we follow the workforce race equality standard and 28% of our senior staff (8A and above) are from a BAME background. CLCH also has active BAME and LGBTQI networks:
Disability and Wellbeing Network (DAWN)
Race Equality Network
Rainbow Network which supports LGBTQI staff.
Each network has a champion who is an executive director at the Trust and they hold regular meetings to discuss issues and make plans to improve CLCH.
The CLCH Equal opportunities statement is on our Website Equal opportunities :: Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust (clch.nhs.uk)
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