Rehabilitation Assistant - Critical Care

Job summary

To participate as a member of the ward helping provide general care and rehabilitation to patients.

To ensure patients receive early and intensive therapy intervention, helping facilitate their optimal functional recovery, through:

• Participating as a member of the multi-disciplinary team assisting with the specified duties, taking responsibility for planning his/her own work duties and caseload
• Ensuring therapy referrals are timely and appropriate
• Collating relevant patient specific information
• Carrying out basic initial assessments
• Ensuring patients with complex physical and non-physical needs are escalated to qualified therapy staff
• Tracking completion of rehabilitation interventions and clinical noting in accordance with NICE 83 CG.
• Delivering therapy interventions and progressing patients with non-complex needs following instruction from qualified therapy staff.
• Liaising closely with therapists, ward staff, patients and their families
• Support the ward team in achieving a basic knowledge and level of competence in rehab, through supervision and teaching
• Responsible for supporting with the organising and running of the critical care follow up clinic.
• Ordering equipment when indicated
• Cross site support within work hours

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for gathering initial information and social history, linking with families and carers and feeding back information to the qualified therapists and the wider MDT

To be responsible for identifying, with the MDT, those patients who will benefit from fast access to an intensive rehabilitation programme

To carry out initial assessments, plan, implement and modify treatment programmes for designated patients from both physiotherapy and occupational therapists following initial screening by qualified staff

To be responsible for implementing prescribed treatment programmes with an allocated caseload, following initial screening/assessment by a qualified therapist

Provide visual plans/aids for patients to understand therapy goals and progression through their rehabilitation

About us

Our vision is to provide outstanding care for every patient. Patient care is at the heart of what we do at our three sites: Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Royal Hampshire County Hospital in Winchester and Andover War Memorial Hospital. Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides medical and surgical services to a population of approximately 600,000 people across Hampshire and parts of West Berkshire.

Our cultural ambition is to have a culture that places people at the heart of all we do, where we all belong, and where learning, improvement and excellence thrive.

We provide specialist services to people across the UK and internationally. We are one of only two centres in the UK treating pseudomyxoma peritonei (a rare form of abdominal cancer) and we are leaders in the field of tertiary liver cancer and colorectal cancer.

The trust employs more than 9,000 staff and has a turnover of over £500 million a year. As a Foundation Trust, we are directly accountable to our members through the governors. The Council of Governors represent the interests of their constituencies and influence the future plans of the Foundation Trust.