Band 4 Therapies Rehabilitation Assistant Community Stroke Rehab

Job summary

Our Community Stroke Rehabilitation team in Enfield is looking for a band 4 rehabilitation assistant with experience working in a rehab role and the motivation and drive to develop their stroke skills. The postholder will work within an established team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, neuropsychologist and rehabilitation assistants. We also work closely with our stroke navigator, stroke buddies and social service colleagues.

You will provide rehabilitation and stroke prevention care to clients under the supervision of the Senior Therapists within the team. You will be developed to take short term responsibility for the effective planning and delivery of care to non-complex patients in co-operation with other team members and in communication with other clinical team leaders or senior members of the team.

The post holder will work alone and will be required to use a degree of initiative while working within the parameters of the team's policies and procedures.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and energetic person, who has had some previous multi disciplinary experience and experience of community working . Most importantly to be passionate about making a difference to our patients and their families.

In return we can provide flexible work options, support for CPD and opportunities for personal development.

"This role may close early if we reach the max number of applicants"

Main duties of the job

Patient/clinical

• To undertake clinical work delegated from the Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists.
• To be responsible for a designated caseload of patients.
• To work effectively as a member of a team in providing a programme of community based therapeutic activities,

Communication

• To contribute to the effectiveness of team working through timely and appropriate communication between all work colleagues within Enfield Community Services and its partner organisations.
• To maintain accurate timely written records of all interventions and communications including letter writing, sketch plans and discharge reports.
• To use information technology for communication; voicemail, email and word processing and collecting data for performance indicators/ outcome measures on clinical information systems.

Information Management

• To be responsible for accurate recording of required data on patient management systems eg RIO

Effort, Mental and Environment

• To be able to deliver and install temporary adaptive equipment in clients own homes.
• To be able to operate manual handling equipment i.e hoist, rota stands, mobility aids,
• To be able to perform therapeutic manual handling techniques with patients.
• To be able to operate computer systems after a period of training.
• The able to produce internal reports of client's progress.
• To deal with a range of patients and carers who may be distressed.

About us

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

North Midd in the Community are based at various sites around Enfield. This role would be based at St Micheal's Site in EN2 OJB. We are ideally situated to the M1, M11, M25 , A10 and A406. We provide physical rehabilitation and holistic assessments for Enfield residents living within the borough of Enfield.