Rehabilitation Assistant

Job Overview

We are delighted to advertise for a Band 4 post within our team of therapists from the Camden Neurology and Stroke Service. This post is an exciting opportunity to work within a dynamic setting across the borough of Camden and join a highly supportive and cohesive therapy team. The Service provides client-centred assessment/rehabilitation/disability management at St Pancras Hospital and throughout Camden community, including in clients’ own homes, in therapy gym facilities or in wider community settings.

You will work in the following pathways

• Stroke Early Supported Discharge
• Long-term conditions
• NeuroActive: exercise-based therapy to prepare for transition to a local gym.

The successful candidate will provide evidence-based, client goal focused rehabilitation appropriate to the various specialist areas. We are looking for a highly motivated team worker with excellent communication skills.

This post will allow the successful applicant to continue to improve knowledge and clinical skills in a range of settings. The candidate will work alongside experienced multidisciplinary teams and be well supported by senior staff both informally and formally through supervision. There is a strong focus on personal and service development and you will take an active role in these.

We reserve the right to close the advert early dependent on the number of applications received.

Main duties of the job

We are recruiting for a generic therapy assistant within the Camden Neurological and Stroke Service, under the guidance and supervision of a qualified therapist. You may work with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and speech and language therapists.

To be actively involved with carrying out multi- disciplinary rehabilitation, and enabling care programmes, as well as being assigned other duties such as clerical and administrative and implementing infection control tasks in the gym.

To assist in the running and to support the provision of activity programmes at the Peckwater Centre and in a range of community exercise facilities. This may include facilitating group sessions, and supporting clients on a 1:1 basis in a range of settings under the guidance of a qualified therapist.

Working for our organisation

The Camden Neurological and Stroke Service is currently based at St Pancras Hospital. The team is interdisciplinary and comprises of Clinical Psychologists, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants and Speech and Language Therapists.

The remit of the team is to provide rehabilitation for adults with neurological impairment in the community. The team promotes independence and community integration. Work with clients can vary from short episodes of care to longer-term support or rehabilitation, but always follows a goal orientated approach. The team is committed to a clinical governance programme and team members are encouraged to use an evidence based practice model and to participate in research and audit programmes.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

To provide client-centred assessment/rehabilitation/disability management at St Pancras Hospital and throughout Camden community, including in clients’ own homes, in therapy gym facilities or in wider community settings.

Person specification

Education/Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Educated to GCSE O Level or equivalent

Desirable criteria

• NVQ2

Experience

Essential criteria

• People Skills
• Working with adults with physical and/or cognitive impairment in the community.
• Working in any health/social care setting/ social services/voluntary sector.
• Experience working in NHS
• Ability to maintain client confidentiality

Desirable criteria

• Experience working with exercise groups

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• To know own personal limits and be able to work under supervision seeking advice and support as required.
• Knowledge of the principles of Manual Handling.

Skills

Essential criteria

• Good interpersonal skills - communication, negotiation.
• Good communication skills both verbal and written which are relevant, concise, accurate and legible.
• Organisational skills appropriate to the job.
• Ability to assess a situation and react appropriately.
• To use problem solving skills – able to use initiative.
• Ability to carry out planned programmes of care/rehabilitation as prescribed by qualified therapists for people who have had a stroke.
• Able to demonstrate effective time management skills.

Abilities

Essential criteria

• Ability to respond to instructions.
• Able to be flexible and adaptable in respect of working pattern.
• To be a supportive team member
• To be personally responsible.
• Ability to be tactful and use diplomacy.
• Approachable – able to relate to clients of all ages, backgrounds and disability
• Ability to meet physical requirements of job, including transfers, manual handling of clients
• Ability to carry equipment and fit in restricted spaces, in static postures - Fluent in writte

Desirable criteria

• Current valid UK Driver’s License
• I.T literate