Rehabilitation Assistant -Complex Medicine

An Exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 3 Rehabilitation Assistant in Complex Health and Medicine to work within our Trust.

Full time 37.5 hours per week to include some weekend working

We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic person to join our therapy team. You will be working to assist the Qualified Therapists in the provision of therapeutic care and rehabilitation to patients to facilitate their discharge from hospital. You will be working predominantly with an older population of patients, you will need to have an empathetic nature, excellent communication skills and be a great team player. Any previous experience of working with dementia patients would also be beneficial. When deemed competent and confident you will also be working on your own with appropriate patients and reporting back their progress. You should therefore be able to demonstrate the ability to motivate patients and be aware of your scope of practice within your role.

You will have the opportunity to work with the wider multidisciplinary teams, attending handovers and board rounds to help in the planning of patient care. The role will also involve some administrative tasks and equipment management, general IT skills are required.

Previous experience of working on a Hospital Ward, along with skills in moving and handling patients would be advantageous. Candidates should have a willingness to learn and develop new skills.

Assisting the Qualified Physiotherapists in the delivery of high quality rehabilitation care and to help facilitate safe discharges from hospital.

Working directly with patients to carryout treatment programs as directed by the physiotherapists and reporting back. Assisting the physiotherapists with the more complex patients. Good moving and handling skills with patients.

Working with the wider multidisciplinary team, attending handovers and feeding information into and back from to the therapy team.

Demonstrate excellent communication skills with patients, their families and the multidisciplinary team.

Be able to motivate and encourage patients with their therapy, and also have an empathetic nature.

Administrative tasks and equipment management. Including note writing, data collection for audit purposes, good general IT skills are required.

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of £2.6bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Rebecca Humphrey Job title: Clinical Specialist Complex Medicine Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0161 291 2823

Karen Quinn

Therapy Lead Wythenshawe Hospital

[email protected]

0161 291 5700