Rehabilitation Assistant | Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for an Band 2 Rehabilitation Assistant to join our In Patient Therapy Service to work alongside our team of Therapists and fellow support staff in the delivery of acute hospital based interventions for patients receiving therapy interventions. Our team works across all of the Acute, Trauma Orthopaedic, surgical wards as well as the front end services including A&E, ICU and the Acute assessment areas. You must be willing to take part in therapy based competencies and have experience working in a health/social care setting This role will involve working as part of a team and supporting activities that ensure the development of the team and the wider service. We operate a 7 day working system which includes a requirement to participate in a weekend roster for which you would receive days off in the week. You must also be willing to work flexibly and be willing to work hours which cover the service between 8-5 The post holder will undertake skilled support work with people who have suffered an illness or injury, resulting in temporary or permanent disability and loss of function in daily activities, and who will be frequently in pain or distress and may occasionally be in the terminal phase of their illness or suffer from Dementia. The postholder will be required to work across Inpatient Therapies (Medicine, orthopaedics and Respiratory) Working to agreed competencies and protocols and directed by registered practitioners, the post holder will support the treatment and care of patients and also their carer/relatives where relevant. The post holder will be working under the supervision (not always direct) of the registered practitioners in the team. This will involve taking responsibility for an identified and delegated workload following screening and /or assessment by a registered practitioner. The post holder will undertake delegated work following a rehabilitation plan/procedure devised by the registered practitioner or Assistant Practitioner. The post holder will solve routine problems using protocols, escalating to registered practitioner for resolution when outside their scope. Work will be carried out within the hospital setting, but may also be required to carry out visits to the patient's own home prior to discharge from hospital., Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the changes to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.

• Implementing treatment to protocols, and based on competencies.
• Monitoring progress and feeding back to the registered practitioner or assistant practitioner
• Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatment.
May involve provision of basic equipment, based on set protocols or as requested by a registered practitioner.
• May include leading and assisting with group exercise and advice sessions.
• Act within the limits of your competence and authority i.e. work to competencies & local protocols and understand local communication networks. This includes making judgments around what may or may not be significant changes in a patient's condition, involving observation and engagement skills and whether or not to report to a registered practitioner. This may involve recognition and appropriate response to emergency situations and outcomes from tests.
  
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We employ more than 6,500 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals, Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health centres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT. We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services. We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza. We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS - yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff and the local community.