Community Rehabilitation Assistant

Care closer to home is becoming integral to the future of the NHS and the Community Health Services (CHS) Division of NottsHC are at the forefront of this exciting journey. Working with our system partners in creating collaborative ways to improve physical health care services, activities and interventions in local communities, which meet the needs of our patients in the places they call home. These post are to cover the Bassetlaw area, our base is Retford.

The division operates under three Units of Management providing an extensive portfolio of children’s, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. We offer various clinical roles, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great career development opportunities, to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference

Due to this being an exciting new service we have several posts available

Discharge to Assess (home first) is anew servicecoming to Nottinghamshire. It is designed to help patients to be discharged earlier once they have become medically fit, using the latest systems and technology to provide the most efficient and effective reablement care possible, putting the patient at the centre of their own care and delivering the outcomes they wish to achieve to support their health and wellbeing.

The team enables individuals to increase independence and improve health outcomes by designing programs for recovery and self-care management through timely assessments, interventions, reablement, rehabilitation and management of long-term and life limiting conditions working in collaboration with the patient, their carer, and are vital in transforming community health services, ensuring high quality care is provided both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients - together we all make a difference.

**The service and operates 7-days**: 08.00 - 20.00hrs.

We have a huge variety of opportunities in our expansive Trust covering geographically from South Yorkshire, Nottinghamshire to Leicester, providing mental health inpatient and community services, community health services, forensic mental health services and secure prison healthcare across the East Midlands. This role sits within Physical Healthcare provision.

We have more than 100 sites and a huge scope of unique opportunities to develop your career and gain some amazing experiences. We strive to be a great place to work and offer many staff benefits and tailored staff support and wellbeing programmes.

Do you want to make a difference?

Do you believe in Trust, Honesty, Respect, Compassion and Teamwork?

Then Nottinghamshire Healthcare is the perfect place for you to start, maintain or further your career. Join our team of nearly 9000 who are making a difference every day. We are all about our people - our staff, volunteers, carers, service users and patients. We are NottsHC.

The search has begun for Community Rehabilitation Assistants for a NEW SERVICE for Discharge to assess (Home First) within the North Unit of Management: Community Health Services Division.

We are looking to recruit dynamic, flexible, and compassionate Rehabilitation Assistants to join this new and exciting service within the North of Nottingham, covering the Bassetlaw area ( Base is in Retford).

You will work within the Discharge to Assess within the North Unit of Management, under the direction of a registered professional and part of a supportive multi-disciplinary clinical team with a dedicated focus of delivering excellent patient centred care and innovation. Providing care to patients within a community setting, who require reablement / rehabilitation support to enable them to carry out activities of daily living in order to maintain them within their own home environment.

This could be the role for you, and we would love to hear from you if you can
- Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful, and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to instantly establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
- Support our patients within a community setting that enables them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs to avoid and reduce hospital admissions by implementing patient tailored rehabilitation, nursing care and exercise programmes.
- Demonstrate high levels of care and compassion providing rehabilitation for adults to promote independence, prevent hospital admission or admission to care, support early discharge from hospital and to help people achieve their rehabilitation goals within the places they call home.
- Enjoy working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, ana