Community Rehab Assistant

NHS; Camberley; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community health service provider in Camberley is seeking a Community Rehab Assistant to deliver care and rehab in patients' homes. You'll support a dedicated healthcare team and enjoy a flexible work environment. Essential qualifications include communication and organizational skills. The role offers a competitive salary and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Group pension

Access to mental and physical wellbeing support

Discounts on everyday purchases

Access to eLearning and professional development

Qualifications

• Ability to assist in providing rehabilitation and care in patients' homes.
• Experience working alongside health teams for joint care.
• Understanding of care plans and reporting patient changes.

Responsibilities

• Assist in home rehabilitation as per the care plan.
• Provide clerical and administrative support.
• Report patient condition changes to the Operational Lead.

Skills

Communication skills

Empathy

Organizational skills

Job description

As part of our commitment to your lifelong learning we offer thecare certificateto all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.

TheCare Certificateis an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services.

Working closely with ourIntermediate Care Team, as a Community Rehab Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members toprovide care and rehab to people in their own homes .Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission. In this role, you will care for patients in the way thatyou believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing bestpractice, and actively improving the way we work.

As part of our community nursing team we empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the artnew tabletsfor them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background!

We cover a 7-day service. We share out the shifts and cover the service from 8am - 8pm. Having a driving licence and access to a vehicle to work in the community is essential for this role.

Main duties of the job

Within this role, you will:

• To assist in providing rehabilitation and care in patients own home, following a care plan, designed with and for that patient, following illness or a hospital admission
• Assist with home exercise programmes as prescribed by the therapy team.
• Work alongside other agencies eg, Hospice Team, District Nursing Team, Adult Social Care Reablement Team to deliver joint rehab or end of life care.
• To maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
• To provide clerical and administrative support to the team.
• To deliver care in accordance with organisation policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies, as delegated by OPS Lead/ Therapist.
• To report any changes in condition of the patient to the Operational Lead.

Please see the job description attached for full list of responsibilities.

About us

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UKs leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services.Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

Were committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. Were a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesnt happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and well need to close it earlier than the date weve shown here. If youre keen to join our team, wed love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

To find out more about HCRG Care Group, please visit https://www.hcrgcaregroup.com/about-us-2

Job responsibilities

As a Community Rehab Assistant working 30 hours per week, based at Surrey Heath Camberley Intermediate Care Team, you will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £24,486.00-£26,155.50 pro rota with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee, and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover lifes emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where youre encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

Person Specification

General Requirements

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Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.