Rehabilitation Assistant

**NHS AfC: Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Surrey Downs Health & Care
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Thursday is a required day)
- **Job ref**
- 343-SDH&C-6114891**Site**
- Langley Wing, Epsom General Hospital
- **Town**
- Epsom
- **Salary**
- £26,405 - £28,976 per annum pro rata inc fringe hcas
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 22/03/2024 23:59**Job overview**:
**Surrey Downs Health & Care**

The community neuro physiotherapy team have an exciting opportunity available for an enthusiastic technical instructor to join the team. This is a great opportunity to join a dynamic, supportive and friendly team.

**Applicants that have current HCPC or are awaiting HCPC registration as a qualified practitioner will not be considered for interview.**

**Main duties of the job**:

- To carry own patient caseload, assessing and treating patients as allocated by senior therapist. Monitor patient and progress according to patient care plan, in order to maximise each individual patient’s functional ability.
- To carry out routine assessments as well as more skilled assessments (selected neuro pts ,simple stairs assessments, discharge from acute settings in conjunction with the Stroke Supported Discharge Team)
- To undertake specific skilled support work to aid the rehabilitation of patients living in their own homes. Where patients have complex needs, this is carried out in conjunction with qualified clinicians
- Enable the delivery of effective and efficient rehabilitation teamwork to patients whilst providing appropriate support and communication to relatives and carers.
- To participate in creating a culture of patient centred rehabilitation and enablement rather than being cared for and use every opportunity to promote a healthy lifestyle and prevent accidents

**Working for our organisation**:
Surrey Downs Health and Care deliver care closer to people’s own communities through our Primary Care Networks, Community Hospitals, Specialist Services and our innovative partnership of local NHS organisations.

Surrey Downs Health and Care has a track record of providing person centered care that goes beyond organisational boundaries to do what is best for the individual. This partnership includes:

- The three GP federations GP Health Partners, Dorking Health Care and Surrey Medical Network representing practices that operate in the Surrey Downs area
- CSH Surrey
- Epsom and St Helier’s University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Surrey Council County

Historically, there have been boundary lines between the organisations that provide care to people in their homes, in GP surgeries and in hospitals, but we have always been united in our mission to provide great care to the people who need us.

It’s on those grounds that the Surrey Downs Health and Care was formed - we want local people to receive the care that they need in the right environment. By bringing together our expertise, we can improve patient care and enable local people to access the right support, care and treatment more easily than ever before.

In bringing this partnership together, we are working to the same set of values that will translate into better care for our residents.

**Detailed job description and main responsibilities**:

- 1. To carry out assessments of patients’ needs as directed by Neuro Clinicians- Walking aid assessments, bathing assessments and assessments for

specific pieces of equipment as requested by therapy or nursing staff.- More in depth assessments of patients deemed suitable by Neuro

Clinicians these may include certain routine neuro patients, more complex generic assessments of patients needs, initial assessment of patients discharged from Acute settings to check they are safe and determine any unmet needs which can then be addressed- To be able to identify more complex issues that need assessment by

qualified clinicians2. To implement therapy programmes both to individuals and provide feedback to therapists- To carry out programmes devised by therapists using a range of techniques which the post holder has been deemed competent to do.
- To plan patient care plans for the approval of the appropriate neuro clinician and implement them, reviewing patient progress and adapting the plan as needed.
- Provide feedback at all stages of patients progres
- To work jointly with neuro clinicans in cases which are complex
- To be responsible for assessing and managing clinical risk in relation own caseload, seeking guidance where appropriate
- Will not attempt any procedure without appropriate training and being deemed as competent to carry it out
- 3. To contribute to the evaluations of therapeutic interventions including planning discharge- To set SMART goals with patients, adapting them as the patient

progresses.- To be able to monitor progress with appropriate outcome measures,

adjusting treatment as appropriate.4. To be able to prioritise work load- To plan