Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant

Overview:
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

**“Locala is a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.”**

**Responsibilities**:
**Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant**

**Band 3: £24,071 - £25,674**

**Part Time Up to 30 hours**

**Permanent**

Be part of our success story and contribute to our bright future. Locala Health & Wellbeing is a Community Interest Company (CIC), an independent, not for profit social enterprise providing NHS services to over 400,000 people in and around Kirklees in the heart of West Yorkshire. Locala is staff owned with members that have a say in how the organisation is run.

This is an excellent opportunity to build a service that represents local needs and opinions and as a member you can have a say in how this happens. Our vision “to deliver excellent quality healthcare closer to home” is at the heart of everything we do and every decision we make.

Locala Community Partnerships is situated in the heart of West Yorkshire with easy access to the Pennines, Dales and Peak District, as well as major cities e.g. Leeds and Manchester.

Locala Community Rehabilitation Service provides comprehensive high quality therapy care for adults (anyone over 16) with multiple conditions, frailty, those who have fallen, or with Neurological conditions. An exciting opportunity has arisen for a rehabilitation assistant to join our team.

We have teams working from Mill Hill Community Health Centre in Huddersfield and Eddercliffe Health Centre in North Kirklees, both of which have good motorway links. The Service provides high quality care to patients in their own homes, community rehabilitation facilities and care homes.

This role requires a motivated and dynamic person to work within this established service and it is essential that you have experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team as you will be working with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Dietitians, Speech and Language Therapists, assistant practitioners and other rehabilitation assistants to provide follow up rehabilitation programmes and support for patients.

Good communication skills and flexibility are essential qualities and a commitment to working with patients to improve their quality of life. Experience of working in a health or social care setting is required as well as an awareness of the role of rehabilitation. As an organization we use electronic records, so IT skills are desirable, as are an ability to prioritise and demonstrate good organisational skills.

If you are able to use your own initiative, be flexible in your approach, and are motivated to be part of a developing service, come and join us.

Locala is committed to helping employees achieve a positive work
- life balance and promotes mobile working. Staff are provided with mobile technology.

We offer:

- A comprehensive induction
- Supervision
- Annual appraisal
- Opportunities to attend internal training, external training identified through the appraisal process.

For more information please refer to Job description and Person Specification

For further information, please contact; Dawn Czerepaniak Avril Henson, Team Leader 03030034366

**Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:

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- ** Flexible working** - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
- ** Generous pension** - We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
- ** Development opportunities **- We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.

**Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.**

**Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated “Good” NHS healthcare services, as well as having a “positive social impact in local communities.”