Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Community Rehab Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team based at Surrey Heath, Camberley, Intermediate Care Team. You will feel valued as a Community Rehab Assistant, within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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A salary of £25,500.00-£27,098.00 FTE with access to our group pension
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Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
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Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
As part of our commitment to your lifelong learning we offer the care certificate to all our unregistered health care professionals. This is the start of your education and training with us and forms part of a robust induction programme giving you the fundamental evidence-based training to support you in your role with us.
The Care Certificate is an agreed set of standards that define the knowledge, skills and behaviours we expect of specific job roles in health and social care services.
Working closely with our Intermediate Care Team, as a Community Rehab Assistant you will support and assist the senior team members to provide care and rehab to people in their own homes . Our work is crucial to the community as we aim to prevent unnecessary hospital submission. In this role, you will care for patients in the way that you believe is best, delivering our high service standards, sharing best practice, and actively improving the way we work.
As part of our community nursing team we empower our staff to work autonomously and with flexibility by providing them with state of the art new tablets for them to be able to check in from home, write their notes up on the go and allow them to not be trapped in an office base, so they can really enjoy working in their chosen community background!
This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week, where the role includes working early or late shifts which are 7.30-3.30 or 1-9pm covering a 7-day period. These shifts are shared equally between the team.
Within this role, you will:
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To assist in providing rehabilitation and care in patients own home, following a care plan, designed with and for that patient, following illness or a hospital admission
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Assist with home exercise programmes as prescribed by the therapy team.
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Work alongside other agencies eg, Hospice Team, District Nursing Team, Adult Social Care Reablement Team to deliver joint rehab or end of life care.
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To maintain knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to deliver a quality service that is responsive to the changing needs of patients.
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To provide clerical and administrative support to the team.
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To deliver care in accordance with organisation policies, procedures and guidelines, according to competencies, as delegated by OPS Lead/ Therapist.
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To report any changes in condition of the patient to the Operational Lead.
Please see the job description attached for full list of responsibilities.
This is an opportunity to put your NVQ level 2/3 or equivalent/appropriate qualification/experience to great use. With strong communication and organisation skills, and a flexible approach will ensure you deliver positive experiences to patients at every stage of their healthcare journey.
In this role, you will need to be able drive and have access in your own car, allowing you to travel across our services in a timely manner.
You will also to be confident using IT systems and be able to demonstrate working knowledge of Microsoft Office packages i.e. Outlook, Word, Excel .EMIS.
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
