Rehabilitation Assistant

Job overview

Are you ready for your next opportunity?

Come and join our welcoming Front Door Therapy Team as a Band 4 Therapy Assistant for an 11-month fixed-term maternity cover.

If you are looking to develop your experience, take the next step in your career or simply try something new, this could be the perfect opportunity for you.

You will be part of a large and supportive team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Therapy Assistants, working together across the Emergency Department and Acute Assessment Units. Your role will help us to assess patients promptly and support safe, effective and timely discharges.

Our integrated therapy team is highly valued by our multidisciplinary colleagues, and we are proud of the difference we make every day for patients, families and the wider hospital.

Outside of work, the Great Western Hospital is perfectly placed for exploring the Cotswolds, the North Wessex Downs, the historic Ridgeway and Avebury Stone Circle. From beautiful countryside and picture-perfect villages to bustling towns and cities, you will find plenty to enjoy nearby.

Interested? We would be very happy to tell you more.

Please contact Bethany Holder at bethany.holder@nhs.net or Kimberley Culbert at kimberley.culbert@nhs.net.

Telephone: 01793 605129

Main duties of the job

The post holder will assist the qualified Therapists with assessment and treatment of patients on the Acute wards, Emergency Department and other assessment units. The focus is on admission avoidance, early discharge planning and restoring the patients to the highest level of independence. The post holder will complete initial assessments, formulate and implement treatment programmes and advise and instigate on a discharge plans under the guidance of the qualified therapist.

• To provide high quality care, timely intervention and assist with early discharge planning
• To work budgeted hours over 7 days
• To be responsible for assessing the medical fitness of patients before commencing treatment and to communicate immediately with an appropriate professional any change in patients’ status or other observations about patient behaviour, ability and response to therapeutic intervention.
• To assist the Therapists with assessment, treatment and management of patients, including stair assessments, and patients that require more than one person to treat or mobilise.
• To carry out general clerical, administrative and department duties in support of clinical work and at the direction of the Therapists.
• To be competent in assessing for and issuing basic equipment to facilitate activities of daily living and mobility. Monitor and maintain ward stock levels

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To be responsible for progressing treatment following regimes or guidelines.
• To discharge case simple patients when they have achieved their goals.
• To contribute to discharge planning including MDT meetings.
• To participate in the orthopaedic weekend working scheme.
• To assist the therapists with any patient that requires more than one person to treat or mobilise.
• To carry out and to supervise exercise regimes and treatment programmes the therapist has prescribed.
• To be involved, where necessary, with the washing, dressing and personal care of patients, and cleaning of equipment.

Please see the attached job description for full information.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.