Job summary
- Main area
- Home First & Reablement
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 327-24-551-A
- Employer
- Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Cheltenham
- Town
- Cheltenham
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 per annum (pro rata)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading
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Senior Rehabilitation Assistant
Band 3
We love what we do and we think you will, too!
At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.
We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.
We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.
Our application process aims to understand each candidates knowledge, skills and experience. We have found that candidates that use AI to generate their answers can lack specificity and fail to address key criteria outlined in the job description.
It is really important to personalise your application to convey your individual skills, knowledge, and experiences effectively and for us to understand why you are applying for this role with GHC. We discourage over reliance on AI-generated as it will lessen your chances of success in securing an interview with us .
Job overview
Are you an enthusiastic and motivated person who wants to take up a new role working with people in their own homes? We can offer you training, development opportunities, regular supervision and support.
Do you have experience of
- working with people in a health or social care environment?
- helping to understand and motivate people who maybe going through challenging experiences or difficult situations?
- being involved in practical, sometimes personal and intimate care provision for people, whilst encouraging independence ?
- undertaking assessments and or reviews and understand the principals of goal setting?
- problem solving, learning and developing skills?
- working as part of a team, whilst able to work on your own?
Do you want opportunities to develop and potentially to progress with your career?
If so this may be the role for you. Our Home First & Reablement service supports people return home after a stay in hospital. This helps them continue their recovery in their own surroundings – regaining their ability to live as independently as possible.
Our service runs 24/7 and all our Rehabilitation Assistant roles offer core hours of 07.00-22.00. Full-time roles operate on a 4-days on, 4-days off schedule and part-time roles consist of 2-days on, 6-days off.
Main duties of the job
Senior Rehabilitation Assistants work with our Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Reablement Coordinators to undertake assessments and provide review to ensure people are receiving the right level of input and / or re working on their outcome based goals.
Senior Rehabilitation Assistants work as part of a close team undertaking activities according to people's individual goal plans, encouraging them to do as much as possible for themselves, to live well and safely in their own homes. They also work with the Reablement coordinators to support and maintain quality standards of work delivered by the Rehabilitation Assistants.
Your role will involve completing assessments, determining risks and how to manage them, communicating and recording your feedback to others involved in people's rehabilitation.
You will need to be able to drive around the locality to work with people in their homes. Team working and communication skills are essential. You will be confident with handling IT systems to update written notes and electronic records.
The service runs between 7am and 10pm, 365 days a year. There are pay enhancements for unsociable hours, as stipulated by Agenda for Change. For more information please see the Additional Information link to the shift patterns and search for NHS Unsocial Hours Payments for more information.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
Working for our organisation
We have in excess of 5000 staff working over 50 sites, providing a diverse range of services. We strive to support an organisational culture that is welcoming, builds and celebrates inclusivity and diversity and provides a sense of belonging and trust.
The annual NHS Staff Survey gives our people the opportunity to tell us about their experience working at the Trust. For the 2023 survey just over 2800 colleagues gave us their views (58.5%). It was great to see from the results that colleagues are saying that:
- 89.7% believe they are making a positive difference to patients/service users;
- 73.3% would recommend the organisation as a place to work;
- 82.4% agree that care of patients and service users is the organisations priority;
- 76.7% would be happy with the standard of care for a friend or relative
Our results put us as 5th nationally as a Community, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities NHS Employer of Choice and 1st equal amongst all NHS Provider Trusts in the South West. However, we know we have more to do and will continue to drive forward our commitment to making GHC a Great Place to Work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
This will predominately involve:
- Within a shift, working in a number of persons’ own homes often with no other professional staff present, assessing and implementing risk mitigations as needed. As well as providing appropriate interventions which may involve practical, personal and intimate care.
- Communicating both verbally and in writing about a person’s progress in case notes, to members of the Reablement Team and others.
- Providing support to Rehabilitation Assistants with their ongoing work with people
in their own homes.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- NVQ in a relevant topic (such as health care) or other relevant training
Desirable criteria
- A level pass (or equivalent)
LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Experience of working in a health or social care environment
- Experience of working with people, their families and carers who may be going through challenging experiences or difficult situations Essential Application form/interview/CPD record
- Experience of utilising professional judgement to undertake assessments/review progress in a health or care setting
- Practical experience of motivating service users; encouraging independence
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Liz Burrow
- Job title
- Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 421 8367
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