Locum Band 4 Advanced Rehabilitation Assistant - Early Supported Discharge Team

Locum Band 4 Advanced Rehabilitation Assistant - Early Supported Discharge Team

• £12 p/h
• Gravesend
• Full-time, 08:00-16:00

Band 4 Advanced Rehabilitation Assistant required to assist within the newly established Early Supported Discharge Service, neurological experience is essential, specifically to be able to work with patients who have had a stroke in assisting with early supported discharge from the acute hospital, back to patients own home or into the community hospital setting.

Car driver and car access essential in being able to fulfil this role.

• To actively work as a member of the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) within the Stroke and Neurological Teams to provide high quality care working across occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, dietitian, and nursing intervention to the patients.
• To actively participate in patient’s individual rehabilitation/programmes of care under the guidance of an appropriate professional.
• To take responsibility for completion of basic assessment processes under the supervision of the relevant members of the MDT - to undertake Trusted Assessor Training.
• To provide and promote a high standard of rehabilitation of patients.
• To work autonomously as well as part of a team.
• To be able to use and take initiative to seek additional work to assist the team as a whole (eg team administration tasks, being the first point of contact for patients, families and other health professionals, assisting in the maintenance of service equipment).
• To provide care to patients in their own homes, group work and inpatient unit.
• To work across services with the Community neuro rehab team and the inpatient ward as service demands dictate.
• 6 days a week working (Monday to Saturday)

Base

Community stroke services are based at Gravesham Community Hospital in Gravesend.