Rehabilitation and Reablement Assistant (S113)

As an RRA you will assist clients in a range of daily living tasks, for example with transfers, mobility, washing and dressing, toileting, household tasks, meal preparation, social activity and access to the community. You will work to a rehabilitation philosophy empowering individuals to meet their personalised goals enabling them to be as independent as possible. With an understanding and implementation of safe moving and handling you will promote health and safety for service users working jointly and effectively with other professionals within the MDT including nurses, OT's and physiotherapist. You will report promptly and discuss significant changes in service users to appropriate professionals. You will attend regular supervision sessions and participate in group supervision., "Working in rehabilitation is a very rewarding career, I get to go home knowing that I have made a difference to someone's day! The job provides great satisfaction as no two days are the same". (Higher Grade Rehabilitation Assistant)

You will be patient and have an understanding of the needs of the client group, promoting and supporting individuals' rights and choices as well as being able to sensitively assist service users to maintain their independence. You will be need to accurately report and record information so you will need literacy and numeracy skills to enable you to do this. You will have well developed communication skills and the ability to converse at ease with customers and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for this post. Flexible and adaptable in order to meet the needs of the service you will be able to maintain confidentiality and be able to work as an effective team member. You must have a full UK driving licence and your own transport as your role will involve visiting service users across the city on a daily basis within a specific time span., We are committed to our values of respect, integrity, collaboration, inclusivity and being people-focussed. These values set out how we can contribute to the success of the council and our own success as individuals. Learn more about our values and behaviours.

At Portsmouth City Council we're all about developing our staff, because we want to build a bigger and better city but we need the best employees to do so. With a little over 207,000 residents and 8,000 businesses throughout this city, this unitary authority's main goal is to ensure the best care and development of all those within the city. From customer service to multi-million-pound projects, our residents are at the heart of everything we do. The Service The Community Rehabilitation Service is an integrated health and social care team, providing a short term Intermediate Care and Rehabilitation Service to vulnerable and disabled service users. The team consists of Rehabilitation and Reablement Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses. The post holder will provide skilled support to maximise independence and to help the individual remain living in their own home for longer.

We really appreciate our employees and fully realise they are essential to our success and look to offer an inclusive, supportive working environment where employees can reach their potentials with a healthy work life balance, offering the following rewards:

• Generous annual leave (27 days per year rising to 31, pro rata for part time hours) with the potential to purchase additional leave.
• A fantastic pension which allows you the opportunity to pay in more for that greater return.
• Flexible working hours.
• Access to a wide range of training and development opportunities including apprenticeships.
• Extensive wellbeing support through the Employee Assistance Programme
• Discount on travel, travel loans and the bike loan scheme
• Discounts on a wide range of goods and services - access a range of discounts and offers from thousands of restaurants, shops and more.
Staff rewards: https://careers.portsmouth.gov.uk/working-for-the-council