Rehabilitation Assistant

This post is part time, 22.5 hours per week.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual, with some experience of healthcare, to join our small but effective Inpatient Therapy Team.

The successful candidate will work as a member of the Inpatient Therapy Team to assist the therapists to assess, plan and deliver rehabilitation programs to our patients at North Cotswolds Community Hospital. Their primary role is to facilitate independence with activities of daily living, with the aim of enabling patients to be discharged to their home/appropriate setting.

The Therapy team comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and rehabilitation assistants. On the job support and education will be provided. This role will predominantly be to support the Occupational Therapy team, but will involve some cross working between OT and Physio teams.

Rehabilitation assistants work closely with all members of the multidisciplinary team, including the nursing staff, in supporting and providing an effective rehabilitation programme and discharge planning.

The post holder will work directly with the registered professionals to assist, plan and carry out treatment interventions with our patients. In house training and support will be provided and once competent the individual will be expected to deliver interventions independently as well as working within a multidisciplinary team.

As you will be in daily contact with all members of the multidisciplinary team, patients, their relatives and outside organisations you will need excellent communication skills, written, verbal and non verbal and have experience of IT.

You maybe needed at times to be in the community to visit a patient in their own home, therefore a driving licence will be essential.