Healthcare Support Worker - Rehabilitation Asisstant

Job summary

Join Solent to have a career you can be proud of!

Portsmouth Rehabilitation and Reablement Team (PRRT) is a Health and Social Care team where no two days are the same. We are looking for individuals who want to make a real difference.

Our Generic Rehabilitation Assistants are a key part of our team, promoting independence and daily living skills which include personal hygiene, meal preparation support and engagement in social or leisure activities as identified within their care plan.

Working in Portsmouth offers a diverse inner-city client base where we provide reablement services to help individuals reach their goals in a responsive time with wrap around support to optimally manage their needs at home and avoid unnecessary admissions into hospital.

We need you to travel across the city to visit our patients, therefore you will need access to your own car. We also have pool cars which can be used by people with full UK driving licences and if you want to use your own, you can claim mileage!

The working world has changed but our ability to provide quality care to the communities in Portsmouth has only improved! Join us to consistently deliver exceptional care by the right professional at the right time.

We want the best for you so you can deliver the best quality care to our patients.

Main duties of the job

• Actively promote recovery-focussed care with patients, in conjunction with other health professionals, including achievement of set goals.
• Support patients with their rehabilitation and recovery this will include personal hygiene needs, meal preparation, taking observations, respecting them as individuals, supporting them and understanding their right to express their needs.
• Facilitate and lead patient-focus groups and activities
• Undertake clinical and environmental risk assessments and document key risk areas, seeking guidance from more senior staff when dealing with cases indicating a high level of risk.
• Accurately assess, describe, and record observations on progress or change in both patients' mental and physical state including clinical observations-BP, pulse, respiratory rate, pulse oximetry, temperature and blood glucose levels using appropriate assessment tools, escalating any concerns as appropriate.
• To raise incidents appropriately via the reporting system in an accurate, objective, and concise manner.
• Provide information on improving health and wellbeing and signposting to other agencies as appropriate

About us

We have been working with other local NHS Trusts to create a new organisation, bringing together all community, mental health and learning disability services from across Hampshire and Isle of Wight. Subject to approvals, the aim is for the new Trust to be formed by the end of 2024.

Project Fusion is the name for the programme to create the new combined NHS Foundation Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust will be bringing the services into a single organisation will result in more consistent care, more equitable access to services irrespective of postcode, and a more sustainable workforce and services. The new organisation will operate locally to ensure services can best meet the needs of different communities.

The new Trust will be comprised of all the services currently provided by Solent NHS Trust and Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, the community, mental health and learning disability services provided by Isle of Wight NHS Trust and child and adolescent mental health services delivered in parts of Hampshire by Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.

Colleagues will transfer to the new organisation under Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) -- known as TUPE on the day the trust is formed. TUPE is a legal process to ensure you transfer out of one organisation and into another, maintaining the terms and conditions of your employment.