Job overview
An exciting opportunity to join the stroke team in a 9-month role as a Band 4 Rehab assistant, secondment will be considered, to work on a pilot role on the acute stroke unit to increase rehab activity. With the 2023 stroke guidelines, there is a need to think differently in how we deliver rehab to give our patients more practice to reach their goals.
In this role, you will be leading on group rehab activities and on data collection for the project to help understand the impact of this role. You will be working closely with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language Therapists, nurses, and rehab assistants to coordinate the best interventions..
As a member of this team, you will be required to communicate well and be confident to work within guidelines and protocols. You will work under the guidance of Therapists within the team, in the rehabilitation of Stroke patients. After the appropriate training, you will be expected to be able to progress patients’ programmes. Working in this passionate and innovative team, you will have the opportunity to expand your clinical skills and knowledge with regular in-house training.
As part of the role, you will get the opportunity to support the acute stroke team for a 7-day working.
If you have the skills outlined above and want a rewarding opportunity where you will be encouraged to influence and develop services whilst being valued and supported, then apply today.
Main duties of the job
·To carry out interventions with patients with a variety of conditions, under supervision of the Therapist, with frequent episodes of low to moderate physical effort, with occasional episodes of moderate to intense physical effort on a daily basis. E.g. transferring patients, use of hoists, therapeutic handling technique positions and transporting of patients in wheelchairs.
To undertake the handling, transportation, fitting, and adjustment of equipment, furniture and aids involving frequent episodes of moderate to intense mental and physical effort on a daily basis.
To comply with the Trust Manual Handling Policy and local therapeutic handling guidance at all times. Work may involve working within cramped conditions, such as, next to the patient’s bed. Physical requirements include: repetitive movements, standing / walking for the majority of the working day (intermittently involving, bending, crouching, kneeling, twisting and crawling).
Working for our organisation
We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. We’re no longer in special measures; we’ve opened two new theatres at our Elective Surgical Hub in King George Hospital (KGH); and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, was named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal in 2024.
We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 330,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care.
Our patients are benefitting from our Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub in Hornchurch.
These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week and are providing an extra 94,000 scans a year.
The majority of our 8,000 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.
We’re looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record that will be transformative for our staff and beneficial for our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on this role, please see the attached detailed Job Description and Person Specification.
The person specification listed below is not the full specification requirements for the role. Please ensure you review the full specification on the job description prior to submitting your application.
Applicants are advised to read all the information on the advert and the supporting information before completing and submitting an application. As you complete your application, please ensure you clearly demonstrate how you meet the criteria in the person specification for this post by adequately completing the supporting information section of the application form.
All new staff appointed at the Trust are subject to a probationary period.
Person specification
Education/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. •Educated to G.C.S.E. level or equivalent
2. •Evidence of recent training and CPD
Desirable criteria
3. •Evidence of recent relevant further education E.g. NVQ level III or equivalent
4. •Willingness to follow a training programme
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
5. •Ability to work on own initiative and manage own caseload.
6. •Ability to communicate information (verbal, non verbal and written) in an accurate, clear and logical manner
7. •Ability to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
Desirable criteria
8. •Computer skills to ECDL level or equivalent or the ability to work towards ECDL.
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
9. •Previous experience working as a therapy assistant or health care assistant
Desirable criteria
10. •Experience of working in stroke or neuro
11. Experience of working unsupervised and carrying out initial assessments
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
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