East Surrey Hospital Therapy Department is a friendly, forward thinking and innovative department with a well-established Clinical Governance programme and a focus on developing staff.
We are looking for a Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant to join the medical inpatient therapy team of qualified Physiotherapists to provide a service to the medical wards.
You will be required to treat patients on the Medical wards according to set treatment protocols, monitoring progression and making minor alterations as required, giving support and guidance to patients' relatives and carers, and liaising with other members of the MDT.
The majority of your time will be spent working with patients and assisting the Therapists to maximise patients' independence, implementing and progressing treatment programmes to ensure their safe discharge from hospital.
At times you will work unsupervised, reporting back on patients' progress and informing the physiotherapist of any problems or concerns.
The role involves a wide range of support and administrative tasks in addition to patient-focused time.
Good communication and people skills are essential.
You will be involved in our ongoing in-service training programme, receive supervision, yearly personal review, and be supported in your professional development.
Main duties of the job
An understanding of the role of Physiotherapy and previous experience working as a Band 2 Therapy assistant is desirable.
About us
We provide emergency and non-emergency services to the residents of East Surrey, North-East West Sussex, and South Croydon, including the major towns of Crawley, Horsham, Reigate, and Redhill; a community of over 535,000 people. We provide acute and complex services and a range of outpatient, diagnostic services whilst Crawley Hospital and Horsham in West Sussex and Caterham Dene Hospital and Oxted Health Centre in Surrey provide less complex planned services. In 2019 the Care Quality Commission (CQC) rated our services as 'Outstanding' and we are one of the best performing Trusts in England:
* Winners of Health Service Journal Acute Trust of the year award 2021.
* National Patient Safety Awards winner and strive to be a beacon for safety in all that we do.
* We are rated the sixth highest trust in the South East and in the top 25% nationally for staff recommending the Trust as a place to work or receive treatment.
Job responsibilities
Once you understand the requirements outlined in the advert and job description, please ensure your application clearly reflects where you match them, including any examples you would like to highlight.
Person Specification
* Evidence of a good standard of written English appropriate to the role
* Suitability for the role evidenced in supporting statement
* Previous experience as a Therapy assistant or HCA
* Evidence of Trust values and behaviours
* Basic IT skills
* Meet the essential education/qualifications required for the role
* Evidence of any other essential criteria as outlined in the person specification
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£24,071 to £25,674 a year plus high cost allowance
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