Job overview
To participate as a member of the ward helping provide general care and rehabilitation to patients.
To ensure patients receive early and intensive therapy intervention, helping facilitate their optimal functional recovery, through:
1. Participating as a member of the multi-disciplinary team assisting with the specified duties, taking responsibility for planning his/her own work duties andcaseload
2. Ensuring therapy referrals are timely andappropriate
3. Collating relevant patient specificinformation
4. Carrying out basic initialassessments
5. Ensuring patients with complex physical and non-physical needs are escalated to qualified therapystaff
6. Tracking completion of rehabilitation interventions and clinical noting in accordance with NICE 83 CG.
7. Delivering therapy interventions and progressing patients with non-complex needs following instruction from qualified therapystaff.
8. Liaising closely with therapists, ward staff, patients and theirfamilies
9. Support the ward team in achieving a basic knowledge and level of competence in rehab, through supervision andteaching
10. Responsible for supporting with the organising and running of the critical care follow up clinic.
11. Ordering equipment whenindicated
12. Cross site support within work hours
Main duties of the job
·To be responsible for gathering initial information and social history, linking with families and carers and feeding back information to the qualified therapists and the wider MDT
·To be responsible for identifying, with the MDT, those patients who will benefit from fast access to an intensive rehabilitation programme
·To carry out initial assessments, plan, implement and modify treatment programmes for designated patients from both physiotherapy and occupational therapists following initial screening by qualified staff
·To be responsible for implementing prescribed treatment programmes with an allocated caseload, following initial screening/assessment by a qualified therapist
·Provide visual plans/aids for patients to understand therapy goals and progression through their rehabilitation
Working for our organisation
Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.
Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.
We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.
The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
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Desirable criteria
14. meets criteria
Experience
Essential criteria
15. Meets criteria
Desirable criteria
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Essential criteria
17. Meets criteria