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A Senior Rehabilitation Support Worker post has become available within the Home for Me service in East Dunbartonshire HSCP. The service provides an integrated assessment and response function to prevent avoidable hospital admissions, facilitate timely discharge and provide a period of rehabilitation within the community.
The rehab support worker will carry out baseline assessments, using an agreed framework and present the findings to the multidisciplinary Team to enable decision making with regard to future Team interventions. They will implement treatment programmes for patients and provide advice to patients and their carers on a range of patient conditions, forms of therapy providing empathy and reassurance. This role also supports the rehabilitation within the intermediate care beds in Westerton Care Home.
The post holder may also be delegated appropriate tasks by professionally qualified team members including Physiotherapist, Dietician, Occupational Therapist, Speech and Language Therapist, Nurse, and Team Leader. Training, supervision and support will be provided to enable the post holder to work within their agreed competence levels. You should have attained an SVQ in Health and Social Care or equivalent and have good communication skills. A current Driving Licence is required for this post.
The shift pattern is; 5 over 7, initially Mon – Fri 8.30 – 4.30
Informal Contact Cara Bottomley, Team Lead on 0141 232 8213
Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service can be found within the Candidate Information Pack
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