Rehabilitation Co-therapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Centre is a Headway Accredited Service and strives to deliver perfect care for the people we serve.

We are seeking to recruit a highly enthusiastic and motivated person, who has a positive and forward thinking attitude towards working with service users who have an acquired brain injury and present with cognitive / behavioural / emotional problems and the resulting complex needs.

The successful candidate will work within a multi-disciplinary team which includes a Psychiatrist, Psychologists, Physiotherapist, OT’s, Speech Therapist, Social Worker and Nursing Staff

Previous experience as an RCT is not essential – what is most important is that the candidate is able to clearly demonstrate positive values and beliefs about working collaboratively with service users and their families.

Short listing planned for 12th April 2023

Interviews planned for 19th April 2023

To provide care for adults with an acquired brain injury in an inpatient rehabilitation setting.

Assist therapy team with the delivery of rehabilitation programmes.

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the Northwest, serving more than 11 million people.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

To contribute to the delivery of a planned programme of care under the direct supervision of the qualified nurse. When outside the unit, and not directly supervised by a qualified nurse but accountable to them for delivery of rehab programme.

1. To carry out individual rehabilitation programmes as defined by the team, under supervision or direction.

1. To report general observations and provide feedback to the qualified nurse both verbally and in written formats, if required. The work may include aspects of behavioural management and compiling base line assessment of service users in order to assist in devising or modify care plans. Programmes will be delivered within the philosophy of the Unit addressing cognitive, behavioural, psychological or emotional problems experienced following acquired brain injury.

1. To carry out physical aspects of rehabilitation under the direction of the physiotherapist, speech therapist, occupational therapist and/or nurse as required.

1. To contribute to the effective running of the unit by providing and receiving information to/from other department's e.g. Catering department. Ensure this information is provided in the most effective way i.e., telephone, fax or in writing.

1. To assist the qualified nurse, under their direct supervision to administer medication to service-users.

1. To use a variety of verbal and non-verbal skills to overcome communication barriers presented by service-users due to their cognitive or impaired sensory deficits.

1. As directed by the qualified nurse, to play a specific role in maintaining a safe environment for service-users, staff and visitors.

1. To carry out specific duties that contribute to the assessment of service-users as requested by the qualified nurse.

1. To carry out, under supervision or direction, activities in order to assist family and carers in the building of their skills, where appropriate.

1. As directed by the qualified nurse, to maintain accurate charts that contribute to the assessment of a service-users physical condition e.g., diet and fluid charts, weight or blood pressure, pulse and temperature.

1. To use skills and techniques, gained during mandatory training, to de-escalate situations where service-users become physically or verbally aggressive.

1. To contribute to the development of risk management plans for service users by reporting, to the qualified nurse, any incidents of risk to the service user or risk to others as a result of the behaviour or actions of service users.

1. To escort service users, as directed by the qualified nurse.