Important Sponsorship Information for this post: Due to service budget restrictions we are currently unable to offer a certificate of sponsorship for this post. The Community Rehabilitation and Short-term Assessment Team (CR-STAT) provides rehabilitation, including Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing and Social services to adult clients living in the borough of Greenwich, across various community settings and in their own homes. This service is integrated with social care. The Rehabilitation Assistant (RA) will work, under the direction of allied health professional (AHP) colleagues, as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to meet the rehabilitation needs of the service users and their careers, enhancing independence, safety and quality of life. This includes people at risk of falling and those with orthopaedic, musculoskeletal and other rehabilitation needs who are unable to access outpatient services. Main duties of the job.
Responsibilities
* Maintain own client caseload accepting referrals from appropriate sources and act as designated by referral criteria.
* Undertake agreed client assessment using standardized assessment tools, adapting and treating according to the client's ability/needs.
* To undertake therapy tasks under the supervision of a qualified therapist. This may include teaching use of equipment, teaching personal exercise programmes, supervising walking inside and out and transfer practice, and supporting the therapist in running virtual and face-to-face group classes.
* To encourage patients to return to social and exercise activities when appropriate and facilitate them to achieve this.
* To assist the qualified practitioner with goal setting and following the treatment plan.
* To instruct in the use of prescribed walking aids if necessary and practice its safe use with the patient.
* Deliver intervention with minimal or no immediate supervision from AHP colleagues, regularly working as a lone practitioner.
* To assist the physiotherapist to run exercise and education sessions.
* Recommend appropriate interventions to promote independence and safety.
* Monitor client status, using own clinical judgement and knowledge in regards to progressing and/or making minor modifications to treatment programmes within agreed clinical protocols and parameters, reporting any significant changes to the MDT.
* Flexibly plan and organise own time to meet service needs.
* Maintain high level of efficiency and effectiveness in work area to utilise resources to the full and report defects in equipment in a timely manner.
* Ensure risk is managed for self, clients, colleagues and the work environment.
* Develop the CR-STAT by working proactively within the MDT.
* Maintain throughput of casework in line with agreed service performance average. Organise and prioritise own delegated work tasks and activities, being flexible to the needs of the service as directed by AHP colleagues.
* Ensure new team members are adequately introduced to the CR-STAT team during induction by acting as a mentor and providing peer support.
* Undertake a proactive role in the on-going in-service training programme for rehabilitation assistant.
* Maintain efficient day-to-day running of the CR-STAT by carrying out administrative tasks particularly related to record keeping, filing, supplies, errands and message taking, undertaking routine and general light cleaning/ tidying tasks and preparing and cleaning equipment as per infection control guidelines/protocol.
* Provide statistical information as required by Lead Therapist in a timely manner.
* Ensure availability of appropriate levels of stock and non-stock equipment.
Qualifications
Education
* Essential: Good English literacy and Mathematical numeracy.
* Desirable: N.V.Q. Level 3 in HealthCare, or demonstrated evidence at working at that level.
Experience
* Essential: Therapy-based assistant and of rehabilitating patients in a health setting.
* Desirable: Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team.
Skills, Abilities, Knowledge
* Essential: Good communication skills, written and verbal, with ability to communicate in a variety of different situations and to overcome communication barriers e.g. language difficulties.
* Desirable: Basic knowledge of some neurological conditions and rehabilitation principles.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:
* We're Kind
* We're Fair
* We Listen
* We Care
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