Rehabilitation Support Worker

Our Health Reablement Teams and urgent care team are seeking enthusiastic and dedicated Rehabilitation Support Workers with a sound knowledge and experience of working with complex, frail and older people. CityCares Health Reablement and urgent care services deal with a wide range of cases, providing care and rehabilitation for people presenting with complex pathologies, as well as challenging medical and social circumstances. We are seeking staff with a wide range of holistic health and social care skills and experiences to complement our service. Visiting patients within their own homes, the teams are dedicated to preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and promoting independence and quality of life. You will be working closely with Occupational therapists, Physiotherapists and Nurses as well as GPs, District Nurses, Community Matrons, the acute trust and a range of Health and Social Care Professionals. The aim of our service is to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and to facilitate timely and safe discharges from the acute setting. We promote independence and with intensive rehabilitation and assessment, we strive to help our service users to achieve their goals, however big or small. Rehabilitation Support Workers practise under the guidance and supervision of the Clinical team.,

• Support patients/clients to improve or maintain their level of function and quality of life and support care in an appropriate setting in partnership with multi-disciplinary team (MDT) colleagues, including liaising, supporting and referring on to health services, voluntary services and public sector agencies.
• Support, encourage and supervise care plans put in place by a clinician to support a patient with their daily activities of living to get them back to their base line.
• Support patients with exercises outlined by the clinical team, feeding back any areas for improvement or decreasing in mobility.
• Supporting a patient with medications.
• Participate actively in the services training strategy, including in-service training, organisation-specific and multi-agency training.
The hours of work will be 7am- 11pm on a fixed rolling Rota basis (out of hours operations carries and enhancement). The Service operates 7 days per week, 365 days per year and bank holidays.

We are a provider of NHS Community Health Services, CityCare exists to support the health and wellbeing of all local people, working alongside other health and care partners to achieve this. We are a value driven, people business with a passion for excellence. Our vision and social purpose is to make a difference everyday to the health & wellbeing of our communities and our values of kindness, respect, trust and honesty lie at the heart of everything we do, guiding how we work together with partners and each other to consistently deliver high quality compassionate care. As a social enterprise we aim to add social value by investing in the future of our local communities and helping to make a difference in peoples lives. CityCare value the benefits of a diverse and inclusive workforce. We encourage applications from candidates who identify as disabled, LGBT+ or from a Black, Asian or Minority Ethnic (BAME) background, as they are currently under-represented within our organisation.