Generic Support Worker

3 weeks ago

Truro, United Kingdom Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

Are you enthusiastic and forward thinking about therapy? Do you want to work for a Trust that values AHPs and their contribution to the patient journey and holistic care?

These posts present an exciting opportunity to work in the Acute Therapy Team, delivering services to patients Acute Medical Unit and the associated Frailty and Eldercare wards.

The post-holders will work closely with the therapists and nursing staff to assess and treat patients within agreed protocols, ensuring that each patient’s individual plan of care and therapy is met.

Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust has an active ‘Improving Working Lives’ team who offer a range of services and activities to support staff an encourage health and well-being of our workforce.

To liaise with the therapist as necessary regarding patient care. In particular highlighting any variations to patient complexity and expected outcomes from treatment programmes you deliver.

To support patients, carers, staff and relatives by providing education and advice as appropriate under the instruction of therapists.

To participate in & provide clinical treatment & rehabilitation programmes, following professional assessment and guidance. These may relate to all areas of mobility, transfers, personal and daily living, upper limb, cognitive, visual, perceptual, and sensory rehabilitation.

To fully participate in the inter-professional evaluation of the rehabilitation programme, to ensure patients meet their on-going health & wellbeing needs.

To have a full understanding of frailty and common conditions resulting in presentation at ED/admission to hospital, such that you are able to explain to the patient, carers etc the effects and rehabilitation needs associated with these.

To demonstrate an understanding of the neurological concepts underpinning the prescribed treatment programmes to enable you to instruct, advise and guide patients. To make the appropriate adjustments independently and be able to communicate any changes to patients and prescribing staff within scope of practise. This may include areas of work requiring physical effort or intense concentration, with regard to risk, health & safety.

Sustainability is integral to the Trust achieving the NHS Net Zero target. All staff are therefore actively encouraged and supported to implement new ways of working within their field of expertise.

To assist in the development of Therapy Services by supporting Therapists in the assessment and treatment of patients and the day-to-day running of the therapy environment.
To accept patients referred by an Occupational Therapist/Physiotherapist and carry as own patient caseload. Treat patients according to set treatment protocols, monitoring patient progression, make alterations (within protocols
and scope of practice) to patient treatment programmes as required.
Work unsupervised regularly, reporting back patient progress and informing therapists of any problems.
For a defined and delegated group of patients - to undertake the assessment of patients, using investigative and analytical skills. To use clinical reasoning, and utilise a range of assessment and treatment skills and options to formulate treatment programmes.

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