Job summary
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced health care staff to join the team in Longmoor House.
Experienced health care staff are required to provide reablement for patients as part of this new service within Mersey Care's community division.
The Band 3 Reablement worker posts will be based in Longmoor House, on the Aintree Hospital site and will be supporting individuals to reach increased levels of independence and return home.
Successful candidates will be expected to work across a 24/7 shift pattern and the successful candidate will have the opportunity to learn, develop and practice a variety of skills, as well as being a valued member of our exceptional multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
The Reablement Worker will function as part of the multidisciplinary team within a sub-acute intermediate care setting to provide a seamless service to patients.
The post holder will continue to develop and undertake a range of delegated tasks and will report to a registered Nurse or Allied Health Professional.
The Reablement Worker will provide general / specific rehabilitation, reablement and personal care as specified below for a patient group and will be proficient and competent to work across professional disciplines. The reablement worker will also be supported to achieve competencies to enable them to work in-between the disciplines.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Deliver clinical and therapeutic care to patients as per care plan and assist the nurses and Allied Health Professionals in patients treatment. To undertake rehabilitation and reablement of patients as per the multidisciplinary team plan
2. Perform patient assessment (under supervision and after appropriate delegation from the registered practitioner) to identify goals and plan and deliver high standards of care
3. The clinical work will follow protocols/treatment plans and is aimed at exercise and advice where appropriate, as well as enabling the patient to improve functional ability and mobility (ability to get in and out of bed, transfer from chair to toilet, walk with walking aid if necessary and climb stairs if appropriate) and promote independent living
Job description
Job responsibilities
1. Deliver clinical and therapeutic care to patients as per care plan and assist the nurses and Allied Health Professionals in patients treatment. To undertake rehabilitation and reablement of patients as per the multidisciplinary team plan
2. Perform patient assessment (under supervision and after appropriate delegation from the registered practitioner) to identify goals and plan and deliver high standards of care
3. The clinical work will follow protocols/treatment plans and is aimed at exercise and advice where appropriate, as well as enabling the patient to improve functional ability and mobility (ability to get in and out of bed, transfer from chair to toilet, walk with walking aid if necessary and climb stairs if appropriate) and promote independent living
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Written, verbal and numeric skills to GCSE or similar level
- NVQ Level 3 health related study or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Experience of clerical work
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a caring role undertaking a full range of clinical competencies to NVQ Level 3.
- Demonstrable understanding of the roles of members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding the delivery of all aspects of individual patient care.
- Understanding of local current issues in relation to primary care.
- Ability to perform core clinical competencies
- An awareness of health and safety issues
- Ability to deal with pressurised or unexpected situations
- Demonstrate initiative following minimal direction by Senior Team - Allied Health Professional or Nurse
- Demonstrate organisational and time management skills
- Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn new skills
Desirable
- Worked as a therapy or healthcare assistant.
- Experience of working in more than one specialty within a health care environment.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Good written, spoken and non-verbal communication skills
- Physically fit to meet full demands of the post subject to occupational health clearance
- Willingness to ask for and take advice
- Ability to make decisions, using available evidence where necessary
- Commitment to high standard of care
- Commitment to personal and professional development
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Confident to work with other professionals
- Able to effectively work under supervision as part of a team
- Able to perform practical tasks effectively
- Flexible
- Empathetic to needs of a range of people
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Written, verbal and numeric skills to GCSE or similar level
- NVQ Level 3 health related study or equivalent experience
Desirable
- Care Certificate
- Experience of clerical work
Knowledge / Experience
Essential
- Experience of working in a caring role undertaking a full range of clinical competencies to NVQ Level 3.
- Demonstrable understanding of the roles of members of the multi-disciplinary team.
- Understanding the delivery of all aspects of individual patient care.
- Understanding of local current issues in relation to primary care.
- Ability to perform core clinical competencies
- An awareness of health and safety issues
- Ability to deal with pressurised or unexpected situations
- Demonstrate initiative following minimal direction by Senior Team - Allied Health Professional or Nurse
- Demonstrate organisational and time management skills
- Demonstrate ability and willingness to learn new skills
Desirable
- Worked as a therapy or healthcare assistant.
- Experience of working in more than one specialty within a health care environment.
Values
Essential
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential
- Good written, spoken and non-verbal communication skills
- Physically fit to meet full demands of the post subject to occupational health clearance
- Willingness to ask for and take advice
- Ability to make decisions, using available evidence where necessary
- Commitment to high standard of care
- Commitment to personal and professional development
Personal Attributes
Essential
- Confident to work with other professionals
- Able to effectively work under supervision as part of a team
- Able to perform practical tasks effectively
- Flexible
- Empathetic to needs of a range of people
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.
