Join our dedicated community healthcare team where you'll make a real difference helping patients regain their independence in their own homes.
Are you a Band 3 with 2 years experience or a Band 4 Rehabilitation Assistant/Care or Support Worker looking for a Band 4 Rehabilitation Support Worker role in the community? If the answer is "yes", we would love to hear from you!
We are looking for highly motivated, passionate and enthusiastic team players with a positive attitude and commitment to providing excellent holistic care and interventions. You will be able to be creative and resourceful in your approach to providing rehabilitation using your skills to assess, support and carry out rehabilitation plans for a varied caseload of patients.
This job is based at East Barnet Health Centre, and will involve seeing patients in the borough of Barnet in their own homes or in clinic settings.
About The Team
Barnet Planned Care Therapy team comprises Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, District Nurses, Case Managers, Pathway Support Workers, Rehabilitation Care Workers (RCW), Technical Instructors and Administrators.
Barnet Planned Care Therapy team provides rehabilitation to adults over 18 years of age, working with them to regain their independence following illness or injury including falls, preventing avoidable attendance at and admission to hospital, supporting them to manage their long-term conditions and promoting health and wellbeing.
Key Responsibilities
The Rehabilitation Support Worker will assist with therapy interventions and programmes such as home exercise programmes, clinic-based strength and balance exercise programmes, mobility/stairs practice, carrying out initial risk and functional assessments, providing aids/minor adaptations, training patients with their personal and domestic activities of daily living to promote independence and safety, under the guidance and supervision of qualified therapists and/or nurses.
You will manage a caseload of non-complex cases with minimal supervision by the therapy staff delegating tasks or setting up the rehabilitation programmes.
You will be carrying out specific Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and nursing interventions and be responsible for collecting a range of information on clients' needs and health status. Other duties such as clerical and administrative tasks as required.
You will review caseload on a regular basis with referring staff and clinical supervisor and report back appropriately when goals are achieved/not achieved and if concerns are raised, or new information becomes available which impacts on intervention provided.
You will input into local assessment documentation and reports under the guidance of qualified staff.
Requirements
Holding a full, valid, UK driving licence and having access to a car to use for business purposes would be desirable (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010).
Just as we care about our patients' wellbeing, we care about yours!
Benefits
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme (T&Cs apply)
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
- Flexitime
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
Please refer to job description and person specification for outline of skills, knowledge and experience required.
Benefits:
Work Location: In person
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