Promoting Independence Therapy Assistant

Lincolnshire Community Health Services Nhs Trust; Ipswich; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking staff to deliver rehabilitation and reablement for patients returning home after hospital discharge. The role focuses on promoting independence, carrying out assessments, and coordinating with a multidisciplinary team to support patients in their own homes.

The post emphasises safeguarding, collaborative working, and flexible arrangements to balance personal commitments with service needs.

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above, or equivalent.
• A L3 Vocational Healthcare Qualification or Equivalent.
• Desirable: Moving and handling training/experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide rehabilitation and reablement to patients immediately after hospital discharge at home.
• Promote independence and assist in assessments to determine long-term needs.
• Safeguard children, young people and adults by following policies and procedures.
• Communicate effectively with patients, carers, health professionals and external agencies.
• Work with the multidisciplinary team to plan simple patient interventions and manage equipment safely.

Skills

Communication

Time management

Teamwork

Basic IT skills

Education

GCSEs 5 at grade 4 or above

L3 Vocational Healthcare Qualification

Job description

Job summary

With an ageing population and pressures on Acute and Community Health and Social Care, enabling people to stay at home and live as independently as possible is the great healthcare challenge of our time.

The Discharge 2 Assess Pathway 1 Service was created to support any person at home following discharge from acute hospital or from a community health bed. The service provides short-term Assessment, Recovery, and Rehabilitation support within the patient home, working collaboratively with Lincolnshire County Councils commissioned reablement provider with the goal of moving people to being as independent as possible. This will aim to enable people to return to their own home sooner from a hospital stay.

This service will follow the 'Discharge to Assess' (D2A) principles where a person is assessed for their long term needs in their own home or place of residence.

This service covers the whole county although people will generally work within a more locally based teams. This means that roles are available across Lincolnshire. The hours of the service are set to be 0800 to 2000, 7 days a week. We are able to consider part time working.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will provide rehabilitation and reablement to patients immediately following hospital discharge in their home environment. To promote independence and contribute to the assessments required to determine a person's future needs.

About us

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.

At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS' workforce.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

We are an ambassador of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an 'earn while you learn' apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more https://www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk/join-us/learning-and-dev

Job responsibilities

Lincolnshire Community Health Service requires all staff to safeguard children, young people and adults. All staff are required to access the organisational policies, also the Local Safeguarding Children Board and the Local Safeguarding Adults Board policies and procedures that underpin the safeguarding agenda. The safeguarding policies to be followed are found at www.lincolnshirecommunityhealthservices.nhs.uk and www.lincolnshire.gov.uk .

LCHS policies, procedures and guideline - It is a condition of your employment that as an employee you are expected to adhere to our policies, procedures and guidelines. These can all be found on the Trusts website.

To assist in the assessment and rehabilitation of individuals immediately post discharge from hospital with support from registered therapists.

To provide reablement care to patients in their own homes.

To work closely with all members of the multi-disciplinary team to promote independence and prevent dependence.

To undertake environmental assessment within the persons home working single handed and without direct supervision.

To communicate effectively with patients, carers, health professionals and outside agencies where appropriate.

To work at times in conjunction with other agencies to determine a persons long term care needs.

To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the qualified practitioner. Plan and progress simple patient interventions with autonomous assessing and planning on a daily basis with indirect supervision of qualified practitioner.

To be responsible for the safe use of all equipment within their scope of practice.

To identify needs and advice on equipment and resources, requisitioning where there is delegated authority and ensuring effective on-going use of equipment is monitored.

Qualifications

• 5 GCSEs at grade 4 or above, or equivalent
• A L3 Vocational Healthcare Qualification or Equivalent

Desirable

• Moving and handling training/experience

Skills

• Good communication/ interpersonal skills
• Negotiation/problem solving skills
• Able to work independently (planning/organising own workload), and as part of a team
• Basic IT skills
• Time management skills

Desirable

• Experience of working in the community
• Experience of working in healthcare environment

Knowledge/Experience

• Therapy provision and care of older people
• Knowledge of OT and Physiotherapy rehabilitation

Desirable

• Understands Discharge to assess principles/ethos

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.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).