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Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Generic Support Worker - Stroke Discharge Team

The closing date is 11 September 2025

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Job summary

You will be part of a well established dynamic team that delivers a programme of stroke rehabilitation to patients in their own homes.

The team is designed to provide therapy at the same level of intensity at home as in hospital.

The team comprises of Physios, OTs, SLTs, Nurses and other rehab workers.

You will be supervised by a team of therapists who will devise rehab plans which you will follow as a lone worker.

Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.

Main duties of the job

You will deliver therapy plans around mobility, personal care and communication and swallowing. They will be orientated around the patients own goals that will be geared to increase independence as they progress.

The therapy is delivered in patients own homes immediately after discharge, the service is 7 days per week 365 days per year.

You will be a confident lone worker with some opportunities for joint sessions when appropriate.

Some knowledge of working with people who have experience stroke is desirable.

About us

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality - opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn't, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way! Please read 'applicant guidance notes' before submitting your application.

Details

Date posted

28 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7417537SC

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH


Job description

Job responsibilities

To facilitate rehabilitation through delivering nursing and therapeutic care allowing patients, post stroke, to gain independence within their home environment.To promote the best possible care, within the patients care plan, to aid health, hygiene, comfort and dignity for all patients while implementing a stroke rehabilitation package.

Work unaccompanied, in the patients own home, to deliver a rehab programme through nursing and therapy tasks to patients following a stroke.

Carry out the rehab plan as set out by all nursing and allied health professional staff involved in the care of an individual patient.

Directly responsible to the Early Supported Discharge Team Co-ordinator.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To facilitate rehabilitation through delivering nursing and therapeutic care allowing patients, post stroke, to gain independence within their home environment.To promote the best possible care, within the patients care plan, to aid health, hygiene, comfort and dignity for all patients while implementing a stroke rehabilitation package.

Work unaccompanied, in the patients own home, to deliver a rehab programme through nursing and therapy tasks to patients following a stroke.

Carry out the rehab plan as set out by all nursing and allied health professional staff involved in the care of an individual patient.

Directly responsible to the Early Supported Discharge Team Co-ordinator.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ 2 in related subject or equivalent qualification/ experience

Desirable

  • NVQ 3 in a related subject

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with people who have had a stroke

Desirable

  • Knowledge of community working
Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • NVQ 2 in related subject or equivalent qualification/ experience

Desirable

  • NVQ 3 in a related subject

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working with people who have had a stroke

Desirable

  • Knowledge of community working

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Additional information

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Address

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH


Employer's website

https://www.northumbria.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Stroke Early Supported Discharge Team Manager

Kirsty Bramley

kirsty.bramley@northumbria-healthcare.nhs.uk

01670529849

Details

Date posted

28 August 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 3

Salary

£24,937 to £26,598 a year pro rata per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working

Reference number

319-7417537SC

Job locations

North Tyneside General Hospital

Rake Lane

North Shields

NE29 8NH


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