Discharge to Assess Rotational Band 5 Therapist

Opportunities have arisen for Band 5 Therapist to work flexibly across both Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home across community services.

The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home teams are an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional community team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in their usual residence. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.

This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport.

The Discharge To Assess element is multi-professional services who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community. We provide individualised care to meet the person’s needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies. This takes place within the persons home.

**The Discharge to Assess element**: The aim of Discharge to Assess is to support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or further assessment in a bed based community unit.
We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence or discharge planning from a bed based unit. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.

The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. The service is for adults who have been assessed as medically stable and who do not require hospital care. This role will require the post holder to work flexibly within the Discharge to assess service.

The service covers 7 days, 8am - 9pm.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

**Benefits we offer to you**:
Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
NHS pension scheme membership
Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
NHS Staff discounts
Cycle to work scheme
Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
Stockport Credit Union
- for local financial advice

The Multi - professional team consists of highly skilled, registered Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Trusted Assessors. Complementing our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior Support workers and Community Rehabilitation Support workers. The role may include community based care within patients homes with the 'Home First' approach or working within a bed based Discharge to Assess facility. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.

The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends and bank holidays. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with use of your own vehicle, business insurance and a full driving licence to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS and includes travel across the borough of Stockport.

We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training, furthermore CDP training is full supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions are provided, alongside peer support sessions in the form of multidisciplinary and profession specific team meetings. Competency based training will be provided for this role and you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with