Vacancies

Rehabilitation Support Worker

Main Responsibility

Your days will be rewarding and varied and include:

•    To work within a multi- disciplinary team.

•    To implement treatment by following care plan identifying rehabilitation goals.

•    To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.

•    To undertake the daily rehabilitation and support of delegated patients.

•    Deliver treatment within a care home or community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered Occupational and/or Physiotherapist.

•    To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with Trust Policy, procedures and regulatory body’s guidelines.

•    Wherever possible, to promote independent function throughout the patient’s stay in a care home or in the persons own home, ensuring that the patient receives the appropriate treatment in the most appropriate setting.

Patient Care

•    Promote the independent function in all daily tasks of patients designated by the registered practitioner.

•    Take responsibility for following identified OT and PT rehabilitation goals; to monitor progress and provide regular and comprehensive feedback.

•    To support patients to practice mobility and exercise techniques as rehabilitative goals.

•    To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.

Please see the attached Job description for the full list.

The Ideal Candidate

The ideal candidate will have the following:

 •    Good general education.

•    NVQ Level 3 in health care (or willingness to undertake).

•    Food Hygiene certificate (or willingness to undertake).

•    Experience of working with older adults

•    Understanding of confidentiality issues.

•    Ability to work as a team member.

•    Delivering patient focused care.

•    Ability to recognise own limitations.

•    Typing/data inputting skills.

•    Current full driving license and use of a car.

•    Willing to work in other areas as and when required to do so.

•    Self-motivated.

•    Good time management

Package Description

As a Rehabilitation Support Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team 

You will feel valued as a Rehabilitation Support Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

• A salary of £24,486 (this will be pro-rated to the hours worked) with group pension
• Free tea and coffee at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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