Promoting Independence Therapy Assistant- Louth

Lincolnshire Community and Hospitals NHS Group; Louth; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 27,000; Part time

Job summary

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is seeking a rehabilitation practitioner to deliver discharge-to-assess home-based care. The role focuses on rehabilitation and reablement for patients recently discharged from hospital, enabling independence and timely home return.

We cover Lincolnshire with shifts from 08:00 to 20:00 across seven days; part-time working can be considered. Applications are welcomed via the contact details below, with the Clinical Team Lead as point of contact.

Qualifications

• Experience in rehabilitation or community health settings.
• Knowledge of discharge to assess (D2A) principles and pathways.
• Ability to work in patients' homes and within multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide rehabilitation and reablement to patients immediately after hospital discharge.
• Support short-term assessment, recovery and rehabilitation in the patient home.
• Assist with home-based assessments to determine future care needs.
• Hours are 08:00–20:00, 7 days a week; part-time working can be considered.

Job description

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.

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.

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

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Jodie-Lea Lord Job title: Clinical Team Lead Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07561710705

Email preferred method of contact.