Rehabilitation Assistant - Forest

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Newnham on Severn; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider is seeking motivated individuals for the Rehabilitation Assistant position. This role involves delivering essential clinical and personal care, ensuring service user needs are met, and maintaining high standards of care. Flexible shifts are available, and no prior experience is necessary as comprehensive training will be provided, including achieving the Care Certificate. A valid UK driving license and vehicle access are required for this locality-based position.

Qualifications

• Valid driving license for the UK.
• Ability to work flexible shifts including evenings.
• No prior experience in healthcare is acceptable, as training is provided.

Responsibilities

• Deliver essential clinical and personal care.
• Ensure service user needs are met.
• Assist the team in maintaining high standards of care.

Skills

Motivation

Ability to work in a team

Communication skills

Job description

Our Home First & Reablement service supports people return home after a stay in hospital. This helps them continue their recovery in their own surroundings - regaining their ability to live as independently as possible. This is an exciting time to join our service - we are expanding to continue to provide quality care and support and we are looking for enthusiastic and motivated individuals who want to work with people in their communities. We are recruiting experienced and new to care Rehabilitation Assistants in the Forest of Dean. As a Health Care Support Worker, you will work closely with other health care professionals, delivering essential clinical and personal care. You will ensure that our service user needs are met and assist the team in maintaining high standards of care delivery. If you are new to care and hold no experience in healthcare, then we offer a fantastic development opportunity with a structured development plan (including achieving the Care Certificate). You will progress from a pay band 2 to pay band 3 on achievement of the Care Certification. Our service runs 24/7 and all our Rehabilitation Assistant roles offer core hours of 07.00-22.00. The following shifts are currently highly sought after for this locality: PM - 17:00 - 22:00 (4 on 4 off). If you would like to discuss flexible working options, please get in touch with the recruiting manager as we are happy to discuss varying shift patterns. Please note that this role is locality based visiting people and therefore it is essential that all applicants have a valid driving licence for the UK and access to a vehicle that they can use for work purposes.

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust. Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that. This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.