Rehab Support Worker

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Job Overview
Do you like providing hands on care and support to people? Do you enjoy empowering them to be as independent as possible? Do you enjoy working independently? If so, then come join us in Intermediate Care.

Committed to outstanding levels of care, you will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team which consists of Rehab Support Workers, OTs, Nurses and Physiotherapists to support patients in their own homes. This will be either to avoid hospital admissions or support patients on discharge from hospital. You will receive lots of training to help you reach your full potential in the health and care setting, including your Senior Healthcare Support Worker Apprenticeship (L3).

You will need to be confident working on your own in patients’ homes, able to escalate issues and concerns for patient safety and be happy promoting patients’ independence by utilising rehab techniques as well as providing personal care to patients who are convalescing as well as to palliative patients. Excellent communication skills are essential.

You must be able to travel independently between patients’ homes across the area in a timely manner and will need business insurance.

You will be rostered 37.5hrs over five shifts per week between 8am-9pm, seven days a week.

Main duties of the job

• Lone working with patients in their own homes
• Providing personal care support and rehab to patients
• Providing care to patients who are end of life and support to their family
• Supporting development of the service
• Work shifts between 8am-9pm, seven days a week
• Support within skill set to wider community services as required
• To work within scope of practice, only delivering treatments to patients in which you have been assessed as competent

Working for our organisation
Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust is committed to being an inclusive and disability confident employer and has been awarded the Gold for the Armed Forces Employment Recognition Scheme. We provide first class development opportunities for all staff and have a wide range of professional, management and leadership, and clinical skills training available.

Here at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, we know how important it is to have a healthy work life balance; this benefits not only individuals but the patients we care for too.

We encourage applications from people who wish to work on a flexible basis, recognising that flexibility may mean a range of different working patterns and hours, we do our utmost to work with our staff to meet their needs and the needs of our service and its users.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

• To provide high quality clinical care to patients under the indirect supervision of Nurses and Therapists in Intermediate Care
• To undertake rehab with patients to help them gain independence while living in their own home
• Ensure high standards are maintained in a safe environment, which promotes equality and sensitivity for all individuals
• To participate in continuous professional development and other team activities
• Carry out a range of clinical and non-clinical duties

Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria

• GCSE maths and English (or equivalent)
• Level 2 Apprenticeship in Care (or relevant subject) or a minimum of 1yr experience in health and social care setting

Desirable criteria

• Care certificate
• Level 3 Apprenticeship in Care (or relevant subject)

Competencies
Essential criteria

• Moving and handling of patients
• Work safely with minimal supervision
• Good interpersonal and communication skills both verbal and written

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of some medical conditions / exercise therapy

Experience
Essential criteria

• Previous experience in care eg as HCA or therapy technician

Desirable criteria

• Previous community experience
• Previous therapy experience

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust (FHFT) has an outstanding reputation and a proud record of achievement. As a well performing, well led and ambitious Foundation Trust, we have exciting times ahead of us. We have an ongoing commitment to improving the health and care services for the 900,000 people we serve across Berkshire, Hampshire, Surrey and south Buckinghamshire.

We are proud of the ambitions laid out in our strategy, Our Future FHFT, including our vision to be a leader in health & wellbeing, delivering excellence for our communities.

We continue to invest in our services and facilities, including a £10 million upgrade to the hospital maternity unit as well as £49m major new Emergency Assessment Centre on our Wexham Park site. The opening of a brand new £100m state of the art hospital which replaced the existing hospital facility at Heatherwood and are planning to invest further in diagnostics and inpatient capacity at Frimley Park.

We have also made significant investment in our quality improvement and digital programmes to support our vision and we will ensure that we achieve our aim of providing the highest quality healthcare to our patients. Our new EPR – Epic – went live in June and we are already beginning to reap the benefits of this ambitious investment.

Our three core values, and the behaviours that support them, guide everything we do and set out what we expect of our staff in the way they treat patients, visitors, service users and each other, Committed to Excellence, Working Together and Facing the Future.

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Seniority level

• Entry level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other
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• Hospitals and Health Care