Senior Rehabilitation Assistant

Be a key member of a multi-disciplinary, multi-agency team providing support to adults of all ages who do not require specialist acute hospital admission but need assistance to maintain their independence within their home setting. Placing emphasis on promoting and maintaining individuals' independence, dignity, and choice, you will undertake medical, nursing or therapy related treatment programs or social care interventions to support and enable people.

Working across the whole of Calderdale, you will care for and support individuals within their own homes, participate in new initiatives and future changes in care delivery, including the Urgent Community Response Team and the Virtual Ward, and support hospital discharges to prevent unnecessary admissions. The UCR team delivers a seven‑day service with staff working on a rota basis for different shift patterns, covering the whole of Calderdale.

The service focuses on the rapid assessment and intervention for adults of all ages who do not require specialist acute hospital admission but need crisis intervention in a community setting due to changes in their physical or psychological well‑being or temporary changes in their social circumstances that make staying at home difficult without short‑period rehabilitation or intervention from UCR.

Work will be carried out in the patient’s own home and the activities will include:

• Implementing treatment to protocols, and based on competencies.
• Monitoring progress and feeding back to the registered practitioner or assistant practitioner.
• Making minor adjustments to treatment programmes within pre‑determined limits.
• Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatment.
• May involve assessing for, ordering and issuing predetermined basic equipment to protocols and established guidelines.

Urgent Community Response team is an integrated multi‑disciplinary service comprising nursing staff, physiotherapists, occupational therapists and pharmacists.

You will provide planned time‑limited active therapy treatment regimes, medical and nursing interventions and social care support for adults over the age of 18 who require crisis intervention within a community setting, thereby avoiding an unnecessary hospital admission.