Rehab Assistant

Responsibilities:

- To play a significant role in the Living Well at Home Project by supporting and working closely with the project lead therapist (AHP) to deliver timely and appropriate rehabilitation to patients in their own homes with the assistance of volunteers.
- To provide a service focused on patients’ goals around empowerment, enablement and self-management.
- To assess and treat patients within agreed protocols and frameworks in their own environment focused on the patient’s goals and to be able to make a treatment plan and share this with a volunteer.
- To work with and monitor volunteers in the implementation of treatment plans towards patient’s goals.
- To be part of volunteer recruitment, training and supervision aspart of the Living Well at Home project promoting rehabilitative palliative care throughout.
- To have close communication with all AHPs and other members of the multidisciplinary team, reporting back on patients’ clinical needs and progress and being partof the decision making process for the holistic management of patients. To advise therapists of changes in patients’ conditions this may then require further assessment by qualified staff.
- Carryout assessments of patients with mobility and rehabilitation needs within agreed guidelines and competency frameworks within their own environments.
- Carryout planned treatment programmes for patients with complex needs, taking into account their underlying condition, ensuring safe and effective interventions in conjunction with volunteers.
- Manage own caseload of assessments and reviews in the community designated by a qualified therapist without direct supervision.
- To modify specific patient treatment programmes by reassessing and progressing as appropriate.
- To have an understanding of a wide range of sometimes complex conditions in order to judge appropriateness of patient intervention for individual treatment sessions.

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: From £24,000.00 per year

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Leyland, PR26 6TY: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Reference ID: 10244