Therapy Rehabilitation Assistant

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; Hybrid; GBP 32,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in London seeks a dedicated individual to join their community-based rehabilitation team. The role involves providing therapeutic support to patients, coordinating care with clinicians, and conducting home visits. Successful candidates will possess experience in physical rehabilitation, strong communication skills, and the ability to work autonomously. This practical role combines both physiotherapy and occupational therapy responsibilities, with opportunities for professional growth within a supportive environment.

Qualifications

• Experience at working at band 3 level in a physical rehabilitation setting.
• Knowledge of equipment relevant to clinical area.
• Experience caring for adults in acute, community NHS, or social care setting.

Responsibilities

• Use clinical reasoning throughout the therapeutic process.
• Carry out rehabilitation programmes crossing physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
• Recognise changes in patients' condition and report to the appropriate health professional.

Skills

Ability to work autonomously & set own priorities

Insight into the needs of patients with long-term conditions and their carers

Ability to organise & respond effectively to complex information

Education

English qualification at GCSE or equivalent level

Training courses relevant to care group

Tools

Rio

Job description

The post holder will be an integral member of the Enfield Adult Community Physiotherapy and Adult Neurological Therapy teams.

The post holder will be developed to take short term responsibility for the effective planning and delivery of care to patients in co-operation with other team members and in communication with other clinical team leaders.

The post holder will be required to support clinicians in running gym-based groups and education programmes and also to visit patients in their own homes to carry out prescribed treatment and assess for and provide appropriate O/T equipment or mobility aids directly or by prescription.

The post holder will work alone and will be required to use a degree of initiative while working within the parameters of the team's policies and procedures.

The post holder may be required to work at times in other services dependent on integration and service need.

The post holder will be an integral member of the multi professional teams, which is in partnership with the voluntary sector in delivering and their carers.

Main duties of the job

• To undertake clinical work delegated from the Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
• To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients.
• To work effectively as a member of a team in providing a programme of community based therapeutic activities.
• To contribute to all stages of the therapeutic process including: - Referral taking and information gathering through liaison with clients, their informal carers, and colleagues from health and other agencies.
• Completing simple assessments, through interview and observation of functional tasks.
• Identifying needs and forming goals and plans for interventions.
• Completing a wide range of interventions including: - giving advice; home exercise programmes; rehabilitations programmes; equipment provision; and simple home adaptations, such as, banister rails and half steps.
• Evaluate client progress through regular re-assessment and ensure continuous progression by graded activity.
• Contribute to formal therapy assessments and provide feedback.
• Review of clients after completion of minor adaptations to home environment.

About us

North Mid in the community is part of Royal Free London group andNorth Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

This role is within the community, under North Mid in the community. The role based within the London Borough of Enfield EN2. Enfield has great road transport links A10, A406, M25 and A1/M1 and easily accessible bus, train and tube links.

Job responsibilities

• To use clinical reasoning throughout the therapeutic process.
• To carry out rehabilitation programmes crossing physiotherapy and occupational therapy.
• To recognise changes in a patients condition and report to the appropriate health professional.
• Undertake delegated tasks to contribute to the safe and smooth running of the service.
• The post requires the use of equipment and skills that necessitates the use of specific therapeutic handling and management techniques.
• To liaise with the voluntary sector partners with regard to individual patients as required.
• To adhere to the Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and all other relevant policies and procedures.
• To respond promptly to any incident where service quality has fallen below an acceptable standard and report to supervisor, the clinical team leader or team manager.
• To utilise varied communication techniques and resources to ensure two way understanding e.g. Non-verbal, hearing and visual impairments cultural / language differences.

Person Specification

Education and Professional Qualifications

• Training courses relevant to care group
• English qualification at GSCE or equivalent level.

Experience

• Experience at working at band 3 level in a physical rehabilitation setting or experience within a social care setting
• Knowledge of the ranges of equipment relevant to clinical area
• Knowledge and experience of working with patients who have physical health disabilities / or impairments
• Evidence of working with and caring for adults either in an acute, community NHS or social care setting.
• Experience of using Rio

Skills

• Ability to work autonomously & set own priorities
• Insight into the needs of patients with long-term conditions and their carers
• Ability to organise & respond effectively to complex information

Others

• A full UK driving licence Car owner/driver for work purposes
• Ability to fulfil routine duties, both physically and mentally, including all aspects of moving and handling patients.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Clinical Lead Adult Community Rehabilitation

£32,199 to £34,876 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata) Including HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working