You will be part of a well established dynamic team that delivers a programme of stroke rehabilitation to patients in their own homes.
The team is designed to provide therapy at the same level of intensity at home as in hospital.
The team comprises of Physios, OTs, SLTs, Nurses and other rehab workers.
You will be supervised by a team of therapists who will devise rehab plans which you will follow as a lone worker.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
You will deliver therapy plans around mobility, personal care and communication and swallowing. They will be orientated around the patients own goals that will be geared to increase independence as they progress.
The therapy is delivered in patients own homes immediately after discharge, the service is 7 days per week 365 days per year.
You will be a confident lone worker with some opportunities for joint sessions when appropriate.
Some knowledge of working with people who have experience stroke is desirable.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.
To facilitate rehabilitation through delivering nursing and therapeutic care allowing patients, post stroke, to gain independence within their home environment.
To promote the best possible care, within the patients care plan, to aid health, hygiene, comfort and dignity for all patients while implementing a stroke rehabilitation package.
* Work unaccompanied, in the patients' own home, to deliver a rehab programme through nursing and therapy tasks to patients following a stroke.
* Carry out the rehab plan as set out by all nursing and allied health professional staff involved in the care of an individual patient.
* Directly responsible to the Early Supported Discharge Team Co-ordinator.