Community Technical Instructor

at  Northumbria Healthcare NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a technical instructor (TI) to join the Short-Term Support Service based at Dene Park House in Hexham on a full time basis, working 37.5 hours per week. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic person to join a busy and dynamic community team, working to deliver rehabilitation programs to clients in their own homes.
The Short-Term Support Service comprises of therapists and care staff who offer assessment, rehabilitation and re-enablement to support clients who may have experienced a short-term illness or a temporary deterioration in an existing condition. The successful candidates would work alongside qualified physiotherapists and occupational therapists, who would devise rehabilitation programs to be delivered by the Technical Instructors. They would also carry a non-complex caseload of their own which may include equipment provision to aid client independence.
To carry out delegated duties, contributing to the planning / maintenance and development of the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy Service and acting as a valuable resource to other members of the multidisciplinary team.
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, covering one of the largest geographical areas of any NHS trust in the country. Leading in innovation and quality – opening a state of the art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England?
Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare, this is the Northumbria Way!
Please read ‘Guidance for Applicants’ before submitting your application.
The Technical Instructor role is to complete new assessments for clients requesting review of walking aids, bathing needs and provision equipment to promote independence within the home, they also support our therapists with rehabilitation programmes for clients at home.
To communicate information and advice to service users, carers, families, agencies and providers and professional colleagues verbally and in written form, using information technology appropriately.
To provide written and electronic reports, providing details of assessments and recommendations.
To make recommendations and facilitate the implementation and provision of assistive equipment and minor adaptations.
Fit assistive devices, equipment within competency banding with a degree of accuracy and expertise using hand-eye co-ordination. This may be undertaken in restrictive conditions i.e. clients home environment.
Ability to support Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists with moving and handling duties

Please refer the Job description for details