Rehabilitation Support Worker

Job overview

Surrey Downs Health & Care

We are looking for dynamic and caring individuals who will play a key role in driving our Discharge to Assess services in Surrey Downs. You will have excellent organisational and time management skills and be passionate about delivering holistic care that has the patient at its centre. You will relish developing new ways of working to improve quality and develop a “one team” culture. This is a great opportunity for a proactive individual keen to take the next step in their career, joining an exciting forward thinking team.

The Rehabilitation Support Worker role will function as part of the exciting Recovery At Home (RAH) Service by providing care, support and rehabilitation within a community setting to provide a seamless service and to support discharges from hospital or prevent admission to hospital. The post holder will undertake a range of delegated tasks, following a care plan and will report to the Daily RAH Co-ordinator and/or Senior on duty. This role will be supported to develop skills and abilities to work with this client group to provide the appropriate level of care.

ESSENTIAL: Full Uk driving License and access to a vehicle that is insured for work purposes.

Main duties of the job

• Deliver clinical and therapeutic care per patient care plans.
• Support assessment, planning, and delivery of care under supervision.
• Identify need for referrals and follow through appropriately.
• Provide handovers to team leads and the wider MDT.
• Act as link worker in areas like tissue viability, infection control, and manual handling.
• Promote health education per local and national policies.
• Support patients’ independence and daily living activities.
• Assist with personal hygiene, grooming, and dressing while respecting dignity, culture, and preferences.
• Address physical, psychological, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients, including end-of-life care.
• Use risk assessment tools to ensure safety for patients and staff.
• Perform clinical skills and observations as per competencies, including vitals, blood glucose, venepuncture, ECGs, PEG feeds, medications, and personal care.
• Report adverse signs to team lead/MDT.
• Maintain safe, prepared clinical environments.
• Use IT systems and participate in data collection.
• Provide evidence-based care and rehabilitation.
• Communicate effectively with patients, relatives, and MDT members.
• Maintain clear, accurate, and compliant documentation.
• Uphold professionalism, confidentiality, and patient advocacy.
• Support team in implementing change and incident management.
• Act as a role model, promoting best practice and high standards of care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please refer to the job description and person specification for more details.

The service provides a 7 day / week service from 8am to 8pm and staff are required to work flexibly over the full week. We are open to conversations about flexibility with shift patterns.

Full time shift pattern example: 13 shifts of 8am to 8pm over a 4 week roster period including some weekend days.

Part time example shifts patterns could include 8am to 3pm, 8am to 12pm or 4pm to 8pm.

The link below gives a brief overview of how Recovery at Home work as part of the wider Home First service - If the link does not work you can copy and paste the link into your search bar.

https://youtu.be/sCEmywjRNaY?si=r2C9aO0D Surrey Downs Health & Care: Integrated working with Adult Social Services featuring Recovery at Home7iMLM1oY

Please note this advert may close early if there are high volumes of applicants.

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.