Sister Winifred Laver Rehabilitation Assistant

An exciting opportunity has arisen to become a Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant in the Sister Winifred Laver Centre Team. The position is full time and involves working between the hours of 08:30 and 16:30. Shift patterns involve weekend and bank holiday working to ensure therapy intervention can be provided 7 days a week and 365 days a year.,

• To work within the Multi-disciplinary Team to provide support and appropriate interventions to patients in the Sister Winifred Laver Centre to be able to improve their health and maximum level of independence.
• To work closely with the nursing, physiotherapist and occupational therapist to support programmes of rehabilitation and health promotion to help the patient return to their own environment, thereby reducing the need for hospital admission/ attendance and the need for long-term care
• To ensure optimum nutrition and hydration of patients by supporting patients to eat and drink and maintaining appropriate records.
• To undertake observations and diagnostic tests and support clinical care of patients by undertaking simple dressings and skin care as directed by the patients named nurse as appropriate.
• To ensure that the highest level of patient care is achieved at all times in the most effective manner
  
  Based in the North East of England we provide a range of hospital and community health services from our leading facilities, including the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Blaydon urgent care centre and Bensham Hospital, all within Gateshead.
Established in 2005, we were one of the first foundation trusts in the country and since then have consistently achieved the highest levels of care for patients. We now employ around 4,800 staff and currently provide 444 hospital beds across the Gateshead region. Our values should be the 'golden thread' which runs through everything we do - they are the core of who we are. Our five values can easily be remembered by the simple acronymICORE; Innovation, Care, Openness, Respect, Engagement. We have a number of staff networks including the Global Ethnic Majority (GEM) network, D-Ability network, LGBTQ+ Network and the Women's Network, to challenge us and help us to constantly improve. Our Armed Forces network is one of our emerging networks. The health and wellbeing of our staff is one of our highest priorities, and we offer a range of support and initiatives as part of our 'Balance' programme balancegateshead.com to cater for our diverse workforce, so that your individual needs can be supported, allowing you a happy and healthy working experience with us.