Band 4 Therapies Rehabilitation Assistant | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
| Posting date: | 04 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £29,460 - £31,909 per annum including HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 May 2024 |
| Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
| Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6201257/393-NMUH-1013-B |
Summary
The post holder will be an integral member of the Enfield Adult Community Physiotherapy and Adult Neurological Therapy teams.
The post holder will be developed to take short term responsibility for the effective planning and delivery of care to patients in co-operation with other team members and in communication with other clinical team leaders.
The post holder will be required to support clinicians in running gym based groups and education programmes and also to visit patients in their own homes to carry out prescribed treatment and assess for and provide appropriate O/T equipment or mobility aids directly or by prescription.
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.
The post holder may be required to work at times in other services dependent on integration and service need.
The post holder will be an integral member of the multi professional teams, which is in partnership with the voluntary sector in delivering and their carers.
The service provides multidisciplinary therapy (OT and Physiotherapy) and support to help patients engage in a rehabilitation or long term management programme to regain or retain their independence. The post holder will provide health care to clients under the supervision of the Senior Therapists within the team.
"This role may close early if we reach the max number of applicants"
Patient/clinical
• To undertake clinical work delegated from the Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
• 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.
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.
Patient/clinical
• To undertake clinical work delegated from the Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
• 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
This advert closes on Thursday 18 Apr 2024
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