Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation Support Worker
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Job share
- Job ref
- 201-24-255
- Employer
- Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Lanyon Stroke Rehabilitation Unit
- Town
- Redruth
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 Per Annum/Pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/05/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Rehabilitation Support Worker
Band 3
Thank you for your interest in joining us at Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.
We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.
Strategic Themes
Great Care
- Care based on what matters to people.
- Care provided at home or close to home.
- Improvement through learning, research and innovation.
- Prevention and alternatives to hospital.
Great Organisation
- Buildings that support health and wellbeing.
- Technology enabled care.
- Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services.
- Safe, efficient, effective and productive.
Great People
- A place people love to work and feel valued.
- Living our values with staff (all voices count).
- Attract, grow and develop talent.
- Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen.
Great Partner
- Encourage and enable effective partnerships.
- Joined-up community services.
- Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities.
- Reduce our impact on the environment.
At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19.
Job overview
An opportunity for a Band 3 Rehabilitation Support Worker has arisen on Lanyon Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital
This is an excellent opportunity to join the Stroke Rehabilitation Team, working as a generic support worker alongside our Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists. We will offer a supportive working environment in which to develop your clinical and interpersonal skills and structured in-service training programme. Previous experience of care and/or of rehabilitation is desirable.
Main duties of the job
An exciting opportunity has arisen to be part of the Stroke Team, based at the Stroke Rehabilitation Unit at Camborne and Redruth Community Hospital. The team will provide a seamless service for stroke patients, which will include flexible, cross-boundary working within the wider stroke team.
The team provides an intensive, client centred rehabilitation service for stroke patients, using an interdisciplinary team approach. The unit has 20 dedicated stroke beds. There will be a high level of patient contact while working primarily in support of occupational therapy and physiotherapy and speech and language therapy.
You will be required to participate in the therapy management of a varied stroke clinical caseload and facilitating discharge from hospital.
We will offer a supportive working environment in which to develop your clinical and interpersonal skills, a structured in-service training programme, and appraisal, supervision system.
Working for our organisation
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.
We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.
Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.
We work in people's homes, in community clinics and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great place to work and a great partner.
Approximately 568,000 people live here. A third of people who live in Cornwall are supported by acute hospital services in Devon. As a result, we also work closely with our partners in Devon. In the summer, and during other holidays lots of people choose to visit the area. This increases the numbers of people who use our services.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view a detailed job description and person specification including the main responsibilities of this role please see ‘supporting documents’.
Person specification
Education
Essential criteria
- NVQ3 in healthcare or equivalent qualification or experience relevant to stroke rehabilitation.
- Previous experience of providing in a health or social care setting.
- An awareness of the needs and aspirations of those needing assistance
Desirable criteria
- Therapy or rehabilitation experience
Skills and Aptitude
Essential criteria
- Ability to work independently and alone.
- Effective team worker.
- Effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Maggie Kirkland
- Job title
- Advanced Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01209 318 016
- Additional information
Gill Head, Ward Sister 01209 318 017
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