Rehabilitation Assistant - Falls Team

Rehabilitation Assistant, Band 3
Community Falls Team
Part Time - 22.5 hours per week

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant to join our Greenwich Falls Prevention Team. The Greenwich Falls Prevention Team comprises of Occupational therapists, Physiotherapists, a Nurse and a Therapy Assistant Practitioner. The team is linked to the Community Rehabilitation and Short term Assessment team as well as the new Greenwich Frailty Pilot. The service will be provided in clinics, in groups for those who need strength and balance classes and in patients homes across the borough of Greenwich.

Working within the Falls prevention Team, you will work holistically with the multi-disciplinary team alongside patients who have been identified as being at risk of falls/ having sustained falls, to complete timely assessment, care planning and interventions, to help minimise and reduce the risk of further falls.

As the Rehabilitation Assistant you will be required to support the therapy and nursing staff in implementing the care plans. As part of the role you will be involved with the running of the group classes across the Borough of Greenwich. This will involve group exercise as well as education sessions. You will also be required to do home visits to follow up and implement rehabilitation/exercise programmes as prescribed by qualified staff. As part of your role you will provide and review mobility equipment/aids with the support of qualified members of the team. You will act as a source to provide health education and advice to patients, carers and their families.

You will need to be a versatile, adaptable team player who has good organisational skills. You will be required to use multiple computer systems therefore a good knowledge of IT is essential. There is a strong emphasis on CPD, reflective practice and clinical supervision within the service, supported by a named AHP professional advisor. Regular in service/external training is encouraged.
Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people living in South East London and Kent and to people in prison. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,000 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes. We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations across the London Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent and manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital in Woolwich as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are one of the largest providers of prison health services providing healthcare to prisoners across Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people
Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

The Rehabilitation Assistant (RA) will work, under the direction of allied health professional (AHP) colleagues, as part of the Multi-Disciplinary Team to meet the rehabilitation needs of the service users and their carers, enhancing independence, safety and quality of life. The post holder will work as part of a multidisciplinary team to work with clients who are at risk of falls. They will work with qualified staff in clinics to carry out exercise classes. They will visit patients in their own homes to carry out rehabilitation care plans as set by either the occupational therapist or Physiotherapist.