Community Rehabilitation Assistant
At a glance
- Band
- Band 3
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 18/09/2026
- Closes
- 04/10/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
“Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsorship if successful.”Quoted verbatim from the source advert
Role summary
This role involves providing rehabilitation-based care to patients in their homes or on wards, including personal care tasks. You will conduct supervised assessments of mobility, equipment, and function, and monitor deteriorating patients with clinical support. The position requires working collaboratively with other Rehab Assistants to deliver services seven days a week.
Key responsibilities
- Providing rehab based care to people in their own home or on the ward, including personal care tasks.
- Completing supervised assessments of mobility, equipment and function.
- Monitoring deteriorating patients with support from clinicians.
- Working with other Rehab Assistants to provide the service across 7 days.
Essential criteria
- NVQ care level 2/3 or willing to work towards
- Skills to manage challenging situations
- Good organisational skills/decision making
- Experience working in Health or social care setting
- Experience of developing programmes of care for an individual or groups of patients/clients and of providing advice
- Ability to prioritise and organise workload effectively
- Able to effectively manage available resources in the pursuit of quality service provision ensuring a safe environment
- Evidence of demonstrating the Trust's values and behaviours.
- Able to communicate effectively at different levels of the organisation and with staff, patient/service users, visitors or external organisations both verbally and in writing in the exchange of complex, sensitive or contentious information which may require the use of negotiating and/or persuasive skills.
- Able to overcome barriers to understanding where there are physical or mental disabilities.
- Able to analyse and assess situations and to interpret potentially conflicting situations and determine appropriate action, where there is a range of options and judgement is required.
- Demonstrable ability of using tact and diplomacy
- Ability to work autonomously if required
- Willing to work flexibly and proactively with the team, including weekend and bank holiday working
- Good time management skills
- Subject to the provisions of the Equality Act, able to travel using own vehicle on Trust business.
- Demonstrable skills in written and spoken English to a standard which enables the post holder to carry out the full range of duties and responsibilities of the role effectively.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in the community
- Previous experience of rehab of elderly/adults
- Able to evaluate data and produce reports using Microsoft Excel and Word
- Experience of using electronic patient / service user record systems.
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 3 at £24,625 – £25,674 a year, across England.
This advert: £20,608 – £21,980 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Dorset HealthCare University NHS Foundation Trust
Community Rehabilitation Assistant
The closing date is 04 October 2026
Job summary
The Integrated Community Rehabilitation Team is a multi-disciplinary team offering therapy to a wide range of people within their home environments to prevent avoidable hospital admissions and facilitate earlier hospital discharge. It is essential that you have experience of rehabilitation or a caring role, preferably in the community settings, as well as having good verbal, written and team working skills. You will need to be flexible in your approach and confident to work alone. Basic IT skills and NVQ level 2/3 would be advantageous.
Responsibilities will require you to work mainly under the close supervision of the clinicians within the team, but at times also to work autonomously.
In return for your enthusiasm and commitment, we can provide an opportunity for you to develop your clinical skills and experience in a supportive team, with regular supervision and appraisals. You will be required to achieve a certain competency level which we will give you support and training to help you reach. Opportunities for further training may be available through the Trusts Training Department.
**Please note visa sponsorship for this role is unfortunately not available. Ensure you hold valid right to work in the UK and will not require sponsor
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