Rehabilitation Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant

Position: Rehabilitation Support Worker / Healthcare Assistant
Location: London SE18
Salary: £27,129 to £28,649
Job Type: Full-Time

Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our integrated team and support the collaboration between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, Royal Borough of Greenwich and Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.

This post will work as a part of a multi-disciplinary team, including health and social care colleagues to meet the needs of clients referred to the Joint EmergencyTeam, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice.

This post will involve assisting the physiotherapy occupational therapy and nursing staff in delivering rehabilitation programme, treatment sessions, supporting activities of daily living and undertake clinical nursing activities.

Main duties of the job

• Assist patient with activities of daily living. To work closely with the registered therapists, nurses and widerMDT. Support the implementation of care plans; including therapy plans. Engage patients in therapeutic activities, monitoring their physical and mental state and progress. Undertake appropriately delegated clinical tasks once deemed competent i.e. Venepuncture – urinalyses – wound care – monitor blood pressure – temperature – pulse – respiratory rate – blood sugar – (administer enoxaparin this is not essential but may be required in the future band 3 HCA’s are administering in the community).
• To engage in supervision, reflecting on and modifying practice where indicated. To promote independence and wellbeing for the patients to regain their previous level of independence as quickly as possible.

About us
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multi-disciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people. Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Assist patient with activities of daily living
• To work closely with the registered therapists, nurses and wider MDT.
• Support the implementation of care plans; including therapy plans.
• Engage patients in therapeutic activities, monitoring their physical and mental state and progress.
• Undertake appropriately delegated clinical tasks once deemed competent i.e. Venepuncture urinalyses wound care monitor blood pressure temperature pulse respiratory rate blood sugar
• To engage in supervision, reflecting on and modifying practice where indicated
• To promote independence and wellbeing for the patients to regain their previous level of independence as quickly as possible.

You will be working under the direct supervision of the Registered Therapists and Nurses.

You must have basic computer literacy and be able to document care delivered on RiO.

Person Specification

Education Qualifications

Essential

• NVQ 3 in Health and Social Care

Experience

Essential

• 12 months NHS Experience or other relevant experience eg social care
• Experience of working in the community

Skills

Essential

• Understanding of the safeguarding agenda
• Car driver

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement.