Rehabilitation Assistant Full Time

Be part of our team…

Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust provides a range of services to Gloucestershire’s population of approximately 600,000 people. Our vision is to be the service people rely on, to understand them, and to organize their care around their lives. We value colleagues and support them to develop the skills, confidence and ambition to deliver our vision.

In everything we do, we strive to be caring, open, responsible and effective. We expect all staff to share and demonstrate these values as we work to constantly improve the quality of care we provide.

Integrated Assessment Team Rehabilitation Assistant

Band: 3

Salary: £16,968 – £ 19,852 per annum

Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Location: Gloucester Royal Hospital/ Cheltenham General Hospital

Contract: Permanent

Current Service Hours: Mon – Fri 08.00 – 16.00 or Mon – Fri 10.00 – 18.00.

W/E & B/H 0900 – 1700pm. The successful candidate will be required to work one weekend a month.

Post available

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a rehab assistant to join the Integrated Assessment Team (IAT) based at GRH and/or CGH.

Integrated Assessment Team (IAT)

The IAT consists of a multi – disciplinary team who provide a timely assessment of patients discharge pathway who have presented to the ‘front door‘ of the acute hospitals.

This includes the emergency department and acute units.

The post holder will require a wide range of experience in rehabilitation / support work ideally in an acute based setting and/or the community.

The post holder will support clinicians with joint assessments delivering very short therapy treatment and undertaking administrative duties. The successful candidate will need to demonstrate a practical and common sense approach to their work, be well organised and have good communication skills.

This is an exciting time working within the IAT as developments within Gloucestershire Care Services, Urgent Care provides scope for modelling new and innovative ways of working.

IAT offers an induction program and robust supervision.

For further discussion please contact:

Clinical Team Leads: Lee Phillips 07816060025 or Dawn Harris 07786976011

Ref: 841-17-498-MB

Closing Date: Midnight Thursday 7th September 2017

Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust has a policy for promoting equal opportunities and is committed to promoting diversity and developing supporting policies. It is also committed to developing a variety of flexible working arrangements, one of which is job sharing.

Candidates are advised to monitor their NHSjobs as initial feedback will be through their account. Interview dates will usually be advised to shortlisted candidates within 2 weeks of the closing date. This is not always the case and so if candidates have not had any feedback from their application, they can call the Recruitment Team on 0300 421 8602.

Subsequent conditional offers of employment will be via NHSjobs followed by comminication via email and hard copy letters.

Please note that if you are successful in your application and you have previously worked for an NHS Trust, Gloucestershire Care Services NHS Trust will request confirmation of your previous NHS service from your last NHS employer via the inter authorty transfer system to verify service and pay grade.

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.

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