Rehabilitation Support Worker - Deaf Service

Location: Northampton

Salary: From £24,483 per annum, plus shift enhancements

Hours: Full time

Purpose of Role

As a Rehab Support worker, you will assist our patients with day-to-day activities including guiding them in organising their personal affairs and accompanying them on off-ward activities to empower them to build and maintain their skills in preparation for their future return to the community.

Working with Occupational Therapists, you will promote, maintain and enhance the patient’s level of mobility, self-care, productivity, leisure and day-to-day activities. Working with people, feeling passionate about supporting and enabling them to live a more independent and fulfilling life is a rewarding career. You will be reporting directly to the Ward Manager and the role will be working closely with the whole MDT.

Some Of Your Key Responsibilities

• Assist our patients to maximize potential for independence and to live a more fulfilling life.
• Help them to build and learn new skills in the following areas:

• Personal Hygiene
• Financial skills
• Healthy lifestyle and healthy eating
• Tenancy and Housing
• Creating daily and weekly planners to help our patients effectively manage their days
• Transport in the community
• Community Vocational Skills

Working in partnership with the wider healthcare team, the patient, their carer and families, your responsibilities will include:

• Maintain and monitor clinical assessments interventions
• Assist in the modification of care plans
• Report relevant observations of a client’s condition either verbally or in writing
• Inform the patient about services and activities in their community area
• Engage with the patient’s family in regard to leave and future support
• Work with patients to make improvements in our service through co-production in ward/charity projects.

A Bit About You

We are looking for individuals who:

• Have experience of supporting people who are deaf or who have hearing impairments
• Fluent in British Sign Language (BSL) or D/deaf themselves
• The use of British Sign Language (BSL) skills will be required for this role.
• An understanding of Deaf Culture is needed to support the patients’ recovery.
• You will have experience of working within a mental health service working with challenging patients with the ability to create and maintain a relationship with patients.
• You will encourage and support the development of others.
• You will have the ability to analyse and solve problems, act with honesty, respect, commitment and consistency with the ability to communicate clearly within your team, to customers and service users.
• You will have achieved the Care certificate or equivalent Level 2 Qualification and be computer literate and be able to use a variety of software applications.

Reward And Benefits

We offer an excellent benefits package including:

• Pension
• Sickness policy on par with the NHS
• Access to the Blue Light Card and Health Service Discounts schemes
• 35 days annual leave (including bank holidays), increasing after 10 years' service
• Life cover
• Electric Car lease scheme
• Cycle to work scheme
• Healthcare cash plan
• Free parking
• Paid DBS application
• Access to free vocational qualifications
• On-site facilities such as gym and swimming pool access and cafés all set within beautiful grounds