Reablement Worker

North West Borough Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; West Kirby; On-site; GBP 21,000 - 25,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 3 Reablement Worker to join the Longmoor House team at the Aintree Hospital site. The role focuses on delivering rehabilitation and reablement services to help patients regain independence and return home, working within a multidisciplinary team on a 24/7 shift pattern.

The post requires experience in caring roles, NVQ 3 health-related work, and GCSE-level literacy and numeracy.

Qualifications

• Written, verbal and numeric skills to GCSE or similar level.
• NVQ Level 3 health related study or equivalent experience.
• Care Certificate (desirable)

Responsibilities

• Deliver clinical and therapeutic care to patients as per care plan and assist the nurses and Allied Health Professionals.
• Undertake rehabilitation and reablement and report to the multidisciplinary team plan.
• Perform patient assessment to identify goals and plan and deliver high standards of care.

Skills

Core clinical competencies

Health and safety awareness

Time management

Willingness to learn

Effective communication

Teamwork

Physical fitness

Decision making

Empathy

Education

GCSE or equivalent

NVQ Level 3 health related study

Job description

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.

We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.

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Job overview

This is an exciting opportunity for experienced health care staff to join the team in Longmoor House.

Experienced health care staff are required to provide reablement for patients as part of this new service within Mersey Care's community division.

The Band 3 Reablement worker posts will be based in Longmoor House, on the Aintree Hospital site and will be supporting individuals to reach increased levels of independence and return home.

Successful candidates will be expected to work across a 24/7 shift pattern and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn, develop and practice a variety of skills, as well as being a valued member of our exceptional multi-disciplinary team.

Main duties of the job

The Reablement Worker will function as part of the multidisciplinary team within a sub-acute intermediate care setting to provide a seamless service to patients.

The post holder will continue to develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks and will report to a registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional.

The Reablement Worker will provide general / specific rehabilitation, reablement and personal care as specified below for a patient group and will be proficient and competent to work across professional disciplines. The reablement worker will also be supported to achieve competencies to enable them to work in-between the disciplines.

Working for our organisation

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Deliver clinical and therapeutic care to patients as per care plan and assist the nurses and Allied Health Professionals in patients' treatment. To undertake rehabilitation and reablement of patients as per the multidisciplinary team plan

Perform patient assessment (under supervision and after appropriate delegation from the registered practitioner) to identify goals and plan and deliver high standards of care

The clinical work will follow protocols/treatment plans and is aimed at exercise and advice where appropriate, as well as enabling the patient to improve functional ability and mobility (ability to get in and out of bed, transfer from chair to toilet, walk - with walking aid if necessary and climb stairs if appropriate) and promote independent living

Person specification

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to perform core clinical competencies
• An awareness of health and safety issues
• Ability to deal with pressurised or unexpected situations
• Demonstrate organisational and time management skills
• Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn new skills
• Good written, spoken and non-verbal communication skills
• Physically fit to meet full demands of the post subject to occupational health clearance
• Willingness to ask for and take advice
• Ability to make decisions, using available evidence where necessary
• Commitment to high standard of care
• Commitment to personal and professional development
• Confident to work with other professionals
• Able to effectively work under supervision as part of a team
• Able to perform practical tasks effectively
• Flexible
• Empathetic to needs of a range of people

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of working in a caring role undertaking a full range of clinical competencies to NVQ Level 3

Desirable criteria

• Worked as a therapy or healthcare assistant.
• Experience of working in more than one specialty within a health care environment.

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Written, verbal and numeric skills to GCSE or similar level
• NVQ Level 3 health related study or equivalent experience

Desirable criteria

• Care Certificate
• Experience of clerical work

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Demonstrable understanding of the roles of members of the multi-disciplinary team
• Understanding the delivery of all aspects of individual patient care
• Understanding of local current issues in relation to primary care
• Demonstrate initiative following minimal direction by Senior Team - Allied Health Professional or Nurse

As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification.