Rehabilitation and Reablement Assistant
| Posting date: | 20 August 2025 |
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| Salary: | £25,201 to £26,473 per year |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 18 September 2025 |
| Location: | St Marys Community Health Campus, Milton Road, PO3 6AD, PO36AD |
| Company: | Portsmouth City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | pcc/TP/724/816 |
Summary
Rehabilitation & Reablement Assistant
Salary: Band: 4,£25,201p.a. plus a 17 % shift allowance (if applicable)
37 hours, including early, late and weekend shifts
The Service
The Community Rehab Service (CRS) is an integrated health and social care team, supporting adults with a wide range of health and care needs. The service provides a responsive crisis intervention to manage needs at home and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. It is a city wide service that facilitates timely discharges and provides community base care which is focused no rehabilitation, reablement and recovery in people's homes.
CRS includes Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Therapy Assistants, and Rehab Assistants who work collaboratively to deliver coordinated, person-centred support. The service supports individuals with a wide range of conditions, from simple to complex, aiming to promote independence and improve quality of life.
What our clients say about us:
'Helpful, encouraging and reassuring. The whole experience was heart-warming and comforting.'
'The care I was given was wonderful, can't thank the team enough.'
'Reliable, friendly and efficient team.'
What is the role?
As an RRA you will provide personal care to individuals in their own home, supporting their dignity and independence in daily living activities such as washing, dressing, toileting and mobility/transfers. The successful candidate will demonstrate a genuine willingness to learn these skills in line with best practice and service standards, with guidance and support from experienced team members.
Following a rehabilitation approach you will help clients to become more independent and enable them to reach their personal goals. With an understanding of and the ability to implement safe moving and handling techniques, you will promote health and safety for clients and their carer givers/family members. You will report promptly and discuss significant changes in clients to appropriate professionals whilst being mindful to any possible safeguarding concerns, reporting accordingly. You will maintain confidential, accurate and timely electronic records whilst working alongside other professionals to help our clients to achieve the best possible outcome. As well ensuring mandatory training is up to date you will attend regular supervision sessions and participate in group supervision.
What our staff say about working in the team:
"Working in rehabilitation is a very rewarding career, I get to go home knowing that I have made a difference to someone's day! The job provides great satisfaction as no two days are the same". (Higher Grade Rehabilitation Assistant)
Please view the job profile for full details on the role.
Who is the person?
As well as being empathetic and compassionate you will demonstrate a clear understanding of the specific needs of the client group, while actively promoting and upholding their rights, independence and informed choices. With literacy and numeracy to enable you to accurately report and record client data, you will have well developed communication skills and the ability to converse at ease with customers in accurate spoken English which is essential for this post. Flexible and adaptable in order to meet the client and service needs, you will be able to maintain confidentiality and be able to work as an effective team member. You must have a full UK driving licence and your own transport as your role will involve visiting service users across the city.
Additional Information:
Please feel free to contact Sarah McCully for an informal chat about the post on 0300 1234 021.
We would welcome potential candidates coming in to meet the team/find out more about us prior to interview.
About Portsmouth City Council
What we can offer you:
Portsmouth City Council is a unique organisation, committed to making a difference, and is guided by core values that set who we are as people, what we stand for, and how we act.
Read more about working at Portsmouth City Council and our benefits on our careers portal homepage: Careers Portal - Find jobs with Portsmouth City Council
Portsmouth City Council is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of adults at risk and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
DBS Disclosure at Enhanced level will be required prior to any offer of employment and this post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.
Every post is subject to PCC and Portsmouth Safeguarding Adults Board safer recruitment procedures.
How to apply:
Remember to demonstrate why you are suitable against each of the points described in the 'Who is the Person' points on the Job Profile using examples from your experience or transferable skills. This might be through qualifications or descriptive examples from your work / personal experience, which clearly illustrates what you did and the effect it had.
We are a disability confident employer and Armed Forces Covenant gold standard. More information can be found atEquality, diversity and inclusion - Careers portal. We are committed to offering an interview to all those candidates that qualify under one of our commitments and meet the minimum criteria, however for roles that receive a large number of applications, this is not always possible, and we will select the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria.
You will need to demonstrate that you have the Right to Work in the UK. No post will be offered without it.
We may not be able to offer sponsorship for this role due to recent visa legislation. Please visit the UK visas and immigration website for further information.
We will email applicants from time to time; please ensure you check e-mail folders as sometimes our e-mails may go into spam/junk folders.
Should you require any support in completing the application form please contact recruit@portsmouthcc.gov.uk. or call the recruitment team on 023 92 616800.