Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.     To be accountable for own clinical practice and caseload management.  

2.     To work without direct supervision but under the direction of the qualified staff and advanced therapeutic care support worker in the provision of therapeutic care tasks and reablement therapy to the service user.  Duties may include: 

Implementation and progression of therapeutic care, rehabilitation and condition management programmes. 

Promote independent social and living skills including the provision of a range of tasks: personal care, bathing, dressing/undressing, continence, nutrition, hydration and prompting, monitoring and administration of medication where required, in line with local policies.  

Facilitate service users to achieve their specific goals involving individuals and their carers and assist with modifying these as appropriate. 

Training and informing longer term care staff about the ongoing needs and the delivery of care, rehabilitation and condition management programmes for the patients  

Positioning advice and care 

Conduct prescribed therapeutic care and rehabilitation. 

Conduct basic screening for overall therapy assessments. 

Recognise acute and chronic deterioration and modify treatment accordingly or escalate to more senior staff as appropriate. 

Assessing performance of activities of daily living 

Teaching use of rehabilitation equipment  

Carry out level 1 & 2 psychological interventions e.g. active listening 

To effectively plan and signpost service users to the most appropriate services they require longer term 

3.     To understand, provide, receive and exchange condition related information with patients and relatives, who may have communication difficulties. Patients may have acute or long term communication difficulties due to other long term conditions. 

4.     To be actively involved in the communication of information regarding patient’s conditions and any other useful information to the inter-disciplinary team. 

5.     To communicate effectively with patients and carers. Effective communication to optimise , motivation and participation through explanation of impairments and reasons for rehabilitation. Barriers to communication may include loss of hearing, altered perception, pain and language disorders associated with brain injury.  

6.     To be aware at all times of the needs of patients during illness or disability and to promote and encourage empowerment, independence and restoration of function. 

7.     Be aware of the acute and community care pathways and the implications of this on standards of therapy care. 

8.     Collaborate to plan and manage patient caseload. 

9.     To work independently, but under the direction of an HCPC registered Occupational 

Therapist/Physiotherapist and in collaboration with the Senior Therapeutic Care Support Workers, to perform procedures and treatment plans as part of their treatment and rehabilitation programmes. 

10.  To write treatment and care notes in a concise, accurate and timely manner in line with departmental standards. These notes do not require qualified staff countersignature. 

Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust.