Rehabilitation Coach

Cardiff Community Resource Team is a community based multidisciplinary team consisting of Therapists, Nurses, Consultants and associated support staff. The team works to support people at home and either avoid hospital admission or facilitate early discharge, with rehabilitation being delivered within the person's own home. We work collaboratively with Cardiff Local Authority colleagues who provide domiciliary care when required. We work across the whole of the beautiful City of Cardiff to ensure support is delivered to people within their own communities and closer to home. As a rehabilitation coach you will be working specifically with patients who have had a fall, or who are at risk of falls., The successful candidate will have qualifications relevant to the role and strong knowledge of falls prevention and falls management interventions. They will have previous experience in health promotion and demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Working under supervision of registered practitioners, they will organise and deliver community treatment and evidenced based falls programmes for identified patients in the locality. This will include physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetic interventions.

The candidate will be required to work in patients' home in an unsupervised capacity whilst preparing and carrying out routine elements of patient triage and assessment. Additionally, the successful candidate will have to plan and take responsibility for care/treatment of the community patients they are accountable for.

Other requirements include monitoring patients and alerting therapists when there are unexpected changes, and modify approaches and activities within care/treatment using own clinical reasoning notify a registered practitioner accordingly, utilising evidenced based outcome measures where required.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Cardiff and Vale University Health Board is one of the largest Integrated Health Boards in the UK, employing over 17,000 staff, providing over 100 specialist services. Working across 6 hospital sites, we have a diverse range of career opportunities to offer. Serving over 500,000 people living in Cardiff and the Vale, we are focussed on the health and care needs of our local population whilst working with our partners to develop regional services. Together we are committed to improving health outcomes for everyone, delivering excellent care and support.

Our mission is "Living Well, Caring Well, Working Together", and our vision is that every person's chance of leading a healthy life should be equal. Our 10-year transformation and improvement strategy, Shaping Our Future Wellbeing, is our chance to work collaboratively with the public and our workforce to make our health board more sustainable for the future.