Job summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen in Hywel Dda University Health Board to join our Acute Medical Rehabilitation team. This is an innovative focused team in place to support the recovery and rehabilitation of patients across the medical wards. The post will involve working within Glangwili Hospital's medical wards, including cardiac, respiratory, endocrine and gastroenterology as well as frailty and major trauma.
The post holder will be working as part of a multi-disciplinary team including Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Social Workers, Discharge Liaison Nurses, Nurses and Doctors.
Applicants will need to be highly motivated with a keen drive to achieve patient centred, holistic, and compassionate care. With a widevariety of patients and conditions seen within acute medical services, and through working alongside a wide array ofmultidisciplinarystaff this post brings with it a wealth of learning opportunities. Due to the high pace of the environments, applicants will need to be adaptable and able to work in busy and pressurised environments.
Main duties of the job
Duties will include: supporting and completing holistic patient assessments, with consideration of rehabilitation needs and strategies/options to aid a safe and timely discharge. To facilitate continuity of patient care. This post will involve a degree of out-reaching into the community.
The post holder will play a pivotal role in delivering rehabilitation to patients admitted to the medical wards to promote each patient's independence. This could include bed, chair, and standing activities, gait re-education, and gym based exercise programmes.
You will be expected to support patients at times alone, though all work undertaken will be under the guidance of qualified Physiotherapists. Recognition of your scope of practice is of paramount importance to recognise when qualified support is required.
As the service is working towards providing a seven day service, please note candidates will required to support a seven-day rota as and when this comes into place.
The University Health Board proactively supports training and development both as part of internal and external CPD and you will be expected to complete appropriate mandatory training.
About us
Hywel Dda University Health Board is the planner and provider of NHS healthcare services for people in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire and its bordering counties. Our 11,000 members of staff provide primary, community, in-hospital, mental health and learning disabilities services for around 384,000 people across a quarter of the landmass of Wales. We do this in partnership with our three local authorities and public, private and third sector colleagues, including our volunteers, through:
Four main hospitals: Bronglais General in Aberystwyth, Glangwili General in Carmarthen, Prince Philip in Llanelli and Withybush General in Haverfordwest;
Seven community hospitals: Amman Valley and Llandovery in Carmarthenshire; Tregaron, Aberaeron and Cardigan in Ceredigion; and Tenby and South Pembrokeshire Hospital Health and Social Care Resource Centre in Pembrokeshire;
48 general practices (four of which are managed practices), 47 dental practices (including three orthodontic), 99 community pharmacies, 44 general ophthalmic practices (43 providing Eye Health Examination Wales and 34 low vision services) and 17 domiciliary only providers and 11 health centres;
Numerous locations providing mental health and learning disabilities services;
Highly specialised and tertiary services commissioned by the Welsh Health Specialised Services Committee, a joint committee representing seven health boards across Wales.
Job description
Job responsibilities
You will be able to find a full job description and person specification attached within the supporting documents.
The Health Board is committed to supporting its staff to fully embrace the need for bilingualism thereby enhancing patient and service user experiences. In our commitment to increase the number of staff who are able to communicate in Welsh with patients and professionals, we welcome applications from Welsh speakers.
The ability to communicate in Welsh is desirable for this post. If you do not meet the Welsh Language requirements specified, the Health Board offers a variety of learning options and staff support to help you meet these minimal desirable requirements during the course of your employment with us.
Interviews will be held on 02/10/2024
Person Specification
Qualifications & Knowledge
Essential
1. Good command of English language and basic Maths
2. NVQ level 3 or equivalent
3. Relevant additional courses to support clinical work
4. Has a significant knowledge and experience of the model of physiotherapy and able to support therapeutic intervention with arms length supervision. lone working
5. Broad range of experience as a support worker in therapy service or associated field.
6. Basic Skill
Desirable
7. IT knowledge of data collection systems
8. Professional, technical or academic qualification which relates to clinical practice up to 180 credits level 4.
Experience
Essential
9. Demonstrates developed manual handling and manipulation skills to help restore patients functional ability
10. Demonstrates developed visual acuity and perceptual skills.
11. The ability to work unsupervised in a variety of settings, taking responsibility for a delegated workload.
12. Working knowledge of specialist therapeutic equipment appropriate to clinical specialty
Desirable
13. Understands the role of other staff groups in health and social care
14. Supervision of staff.
15. Additional clinical or health care related experience
16. Experience of working with groups of patients
Other
Essential
17. To be flexible to the needs of the service and the potential need to work on a variety of sites
18. Ability to travel between sites in a timely manner
Language Skills
Desirable
19. Welsh Speaker (Level 1)