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SalaryWe are seeking an enthusiastic band 4 Rehabilitation Assistant to join our Urgent Community Response team, delivering care to patients closer to home and preventing unnecessary hospital admission in west Hertfordshire.
The Unplanned Care team comprises five pathways delivered over 7-day working: Discharge to Assess Pathway 1 (DTA); Discharge to Assess Pathway 2, Rapid Response (RR), Frailty Hospital@Home and Early intervention Vehicle (EIV). This role will primarily work under the Discharge to Assess and Rapid Response pathways, but may require the candidate to work across the other pathways when required. All pathways deliver nursing and therapy care in a patient’s usual home environment.
RR focuses on preventing avoidable hospital admissions for patients with acute ill-health conditions by providing holistic assessment within 2 hours of referral and treatments over a 5 day pathway.
DTA supports the discharge of patients from acute and community hospitals to assess and manage rehabilitation/therapy needs to facilitate a safe discharge from hospital when the patient is medically well enough to go home. The pathway is delivered in conjunction with Adult Social Care to support the patient’s reablement.
The EIV service responds to referrals for patients identified as requiring support for low complexity health and functional needs that would otherwise put them at risk of hospital admission through loss of independence and/or falls.
Just as we care about our patients’ wellbeing, we care about yours!
We can offer you:
- A comprehensive induction into the community service followed by a local induction to introduce you to the role
- Car lease scheme *T&C’s apply
- Flexible working options
- Annual travel card loan
- Training, support and development in your career
- To provide a high standard of Occupational Therapy/ Physiotherapy service to all patients.
- To be an active member of the clinical team working within standard operating procedures and pathways to manage your own workload independently but with reference to a supervisor within the clinical team.
- To support the team by assessing patients and implementing programmes of care ensuring that you follow professional standards, promote best practice and work within your sphere of competence and knowledge.
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner including assessing, treating, and managing own caseload of patients and maintaining professional documentation.
