Rehabilitation Assistant - (Integrated Care Assistant)

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Rehabilitation Assistant - (Integrated Care Assistant), London

Client:

NELFT NHS Foundation Trust

Location:

London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

2948a7bce07e

Job Views:

3

Posted:

18.04.2025

Expiry Date:

02.06.2025

Job Description:

Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award-winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

Job overview

1 Full Time ( hours per week, 9am-5pm) Band 3 rehabilitation assistant available

Please note: all interviews are being conducted face to face only. There will be no virtual interviews for this role.

This vacancy may be closed early subject to high demand.

Are you looking for a fresh challenge, are you committed to the delivery of high-quality patient care and keen to be part of a therapy team where your ideas and opinions are valued?

We are seeking a Band 3 Integrated Care Assistant who would like to apply for this exciting opportunity to work in an Inpatient Therapy Team based at Meadow Court, Goodmayes Hospital, IG3 8XJ.

The post holder may have a background experience within healthcare and an interest in Rehabilitation to enable patients to achieve their therapy goals and promote Independence.

Main duties of the job

We work with patients and their families/carers to support their rehabilitation journey resulting in a safe discharge home. The successful candidates will be required to support the clinicians in the safe delivery of this care. The role will require the successful candidate to work as part of the Inpatient therapy team for Lily and Poppy wards at Meadow Court.

Key responsibilities would include:

1. Carrying out therapy plans as per the qualified OT/PT recommendations to help patients achieve their goals before returning home.

For further information on responsibilities please refer to the job description. This post will be subject to a probationary period as per Trust policy.

Working for our organisation

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement - Outer London 15%

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735).

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own delegated workload. To have organisational knowledge relating to Trust protocols and procedures and adhere to them, particularly administration of medicine and moving and handling. To be responsible for providing accurate records of information required by the Trust for audit purposes. To ensure effective risk management at team level by accident/incident reporting, assessing and controlling risk and ensuring residual risks are added to the Trust register. To plan and organise own delegated work. To identify and report any changes in patient care needs or changes in physical or emotional well-being to the MDT leads.

● To maintain accurate records-record new problems as they are identified and report all actions taken to the MDT. To act as the patient’s advocate and, by providing information and support, facilitate the patient’s own choices with regard to personal care, promoting independence and self-care as appropriate. To be skilled in communication, establishing and maintaining good relationships with patients, carers, members of the MDT. To maintain, update and develop personal, professional knowledge and skills achieving high standards of patient care at all times. To undertake specific nursing and therapy tasks following completion of theoretical training acquisition of competency. To maintain confidentiality in all dealings with patients and their records. To offer support and to teach patients, relatives and other carers appropriate skills, imparting knowledge to promote positive health. To have knowledge of and be able to effectively use available resources. To participate in the support of student nurses and new staff in the locality. To undertake training, this will lead to new skills being developed, in order to develop Services. Reflect on practice regularly and plan personal development in order to achieve growth development. Access supervision from the qualified team members to enhance own practice. To partake in internal rotations as per service requirements.

Please see job description for more information.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS VACANCY MAY CLOSE EARLY DUE TO A HIGH VOLUME OF APPLICATIONS

Person specification

Qualifications & Experience

Essential criteria

• General education
• NVQ or willingness to work towards
• Life Skills

Desirable criteria

• Previous Healthcare or NHS
• Previous Therapy experience

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Basic therapy understanding

Desirable criteria

• Understanding of Health and Safety issues

Skills

Essential criteria

• Communication
• Organisational
• IT
• Team worker

Desirable criteria

• Clinical Audit

Other

Essential criteria

• Trust Values awareness

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long-term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work-life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our efforts to support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part-time hours or another flexible pattern.