Rehabilitation Assistant - Ipswich

at  Brainkind

Rehabilitation Assistant
Location: Ipswich
Salary: £11.44 per hour
Hours: 37.5hrs per week
Why join us?
Brainkind is a charity that aims to improve the lives of people with brain injuries in the UK. Our assessment centres, rehabilitation units and hospitals use expert neurorehabilitation to support people to regain the skills they have lost. We treat people with a range of brain injuries – sustained through trauma, illness, substance abuse and more – to recover and meet their personal goals. Our employees are incredibly passionate about the jobs they do – you will find a strong team spirit across our services and amazing colleagues who always pull together and look out for each other.

MAIN PURPOSE:

To carry out high-quality holistic person-centred care and support to service users to reach their full rehabilitation potential.

MAIN TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• To participate fully in the Care Plan process in the role of Associate Key Worker including assessment, implementation, and evaluation
• To promote choice in the delivery of rehabilitation, care, and support. Reviewing and making suggestions to enhance the individuals’ experience. Enabling concerns and complaints to be raised freely by the individual and/or their representatives
• To attend to and assist clients in achieving a high standard of physical care, including diet, hygiene, and appearance. To provide a high standard of personal care to clients in a sensitive and respectful manner, and help them maintain their morale
• To monitor the physical and emotional well-being of all clients in order to be aware of changes and to alert senior colleagues as necessary
• To work with therapists/team members to ensure optimum cognitive, social, emotional, physical, and functional recovery
• To ensure that rehabilitation goals, strategies, and procedures are implemented and reinforced throughout the 24-hour period
• To observe strict confidentiality in respect of any information regarding clients or information relating to the running of the Care and Rehabilitation Services
• To promote an organisational culture where staff are empowered to challenge inappropriate behaviour and unsafe practice using appropriate organisational processes including the internal whistle-blowing policy
• To seek feedback on all incidents reported by the post holder through DATIX
• To participate openly and honestly in any investigation regarding care delivery
• Where there has been harm to a person in our care to work with the line manager to ensure that the service user and /or their representative are informed of the facts surrounding any incident (see explanation re Duty of Candour in Incident and Near Miss Reporting Procedure)
• To ensure accurate reporting and documentation
• To be an active and co-operative team member. Challenging practice as appropriate and supporting new staff
• In order to facilitate the safe and smooth running of the Service, employees are expected to maintain a safe working environment, maintain service user confidentiality, and occasionally take on reasonable additional tasks

*Please note we will be shortlisting and interviewing candidates on a rolling basis until the role is filled therefore, we recommend applying as soon as possible. *

• All successful candidates are subject to compliance checks including 3 years of checkable references and DBS/PVG checks