Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation at Home
- Grade
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 days per week Monday - Friday)
- Job ref
- 844-6432635
- Employer
- Wirral Community Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Victoria Health Centre
- Town
- Wallasey
- Salary
- £22,816 - £24,336 pa pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Technical Instructor
Band 3
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust's common purpose:
We will support you and your community to live well.
Our values:
Compassion
Supportive and caring, listening to others.
Open
Communicating openly, honestly and sharing ideas.
Trust
Trusted to deliver, feeling valued and safe.
Wirral Community Health & Care NHS Foundation Trust provides high quality community health and care services which are responsive to the needs of our local population. Services are delivered by our dedicated and innovative multi disciplinary professionals and supported by equally committed staff behind the scenes. We strive to continue developing and improving our services by working with and listening to our populations, partners, commissioners and staff.
WCHC offers you a great opportunity to be a part of a talented, passionate and committed team delivering excellent community based services across Cheshire and Merseyside.
We are proud to support our Armed Forces Community as a Veteran Aware NHS Trust and are pleased to share that we recently achieved Bronze Award accreditation, in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme. We support the armed forces as an employer; recognising the experiences and skills ex-military personnel have gained through their service.
Job overview
The Rehabilitation at Home Service has a vacancy for a full time Band 3 Community Technical Instructor.
The successful candidate will have a wide knowledge base and experience, be enthusiastic, hardworking and possess exceptional communication skills. You will be well supported by senior therapists, a range of colleagues and via our robust clinical supervision, training and appraisal structure .You will be part of a rehabilitation service completing assessments of need, supporting patients to regain function and maintain independence, providing rehabilitative techniques, exercises and use of adaptive equipment to ensure safety, function and ADL can be maintained in the home.
If working in community excites you, and you are thinking about a new role or place to work, we would love to hear from you.
Please contact Michelle Carter or Carla Link on 0151 514 2444 or email [email protected] or [email protected].
Main duties of the job
Our team of Occupational therapists, Physiotherapists and Technical instructors see people across the Wirral who are best treated in their own homes, the work is varied and interesting and no two days are ever the same. You will provide basic assessments, carry out follow up visits, demonstrate and fit equipment ensuring it is fit for purpose and meets needs, and support the Occupational therapists and Physiotherapist to deliver treatment plans to patients to enable them to reach their rehabilitation potential. Monitoring functional abilities, at each visit and reporting back to therapists any changes such as improvements or decline, concerns or new needs to enable further therapy interventions as required.
Working for our organisation
Wirral Health and Social Care Community Trust is a forward thinking, developing but established Trust , committed to delivering high standards of care to all patients, and committed to support improvement in services. It supports it's staff to develop their skills, knowledge, providing internal training, opportunity for external training to achieve personal development and supporting career development.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working with patients and carers, completing assessments of need, supporting patients to regain function and maintain independence, providing rehabilitative techniques, exercises and use of adaptive equipment to ensure safety, function and ADL can be maintained in the home.
Person specification
Qualifications and professional training
Essential criteria
- GCSE’s @ C or above in Maths, English
- NVQ Level 3 Health & Social Care or equivalent
- Good rounded general education
- Competent Computer Skills:- Microsoft office/ word and Outlook
Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Previous Healthcare Experience, working with patients/customers
- Understanding of Patient Care Activities
- Experience / awareness of exercise
Desirable criteria
- Experience working as a therapy assistant supporting OTs and Physios
Skills and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent Communication Skills adapting easily to patients and therapists
- Ability to be appropriately sensitive to patient’s needs
- Ability to plan and organise own work
- Confident managing patient data and information
- Ability to assume responsibility for designated areas of work
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Ability to work under pressure
- Confidentiality
- Willingness to contribute to own Continuing Professional development
- Flexible and adaptable
- Car driver and access to car for work purposes
- Ability to work as part of a team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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
- Carla Link
- Job title
- Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 514 2444
- Additional information
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