# Technical Instructor

**Company**: Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust
**Location**: Hoddesdon
**Salary**: £28392.00 to £31157.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

The Upper Lea Valley team at Hertfordshire Community NHS Trust is seeking a Technical Instructor to join their team. As a Technical Instructor, you will make a real difference to patients' lives, providing excellent patient care in patients' home environments. You will be part of the therapy team, carrying out initial and functional assessments, guiding rehabilitation, and working closely with physiotherapists and occupational therapists.

**Main Duties:**

- Provide support, assessment, and treatment for patients within their own homes.

- Maintain patient treatment records using Systmone.

- Undertake a clinical caseload using knowledge and skills from theoretical and practical experience.

- Work without direct supervision on own caseload within a specified clinical area.

- Act as a first contact in certain situations.

- Provide exercise, activity, and treatment programmes for rehabilitation and optimisation of potential.

- Carry out non-clinical activities to facilitate the efficient running of the team.

- Participate in clinical supervision and service-level education.

**Responsibilities:**

- Liaise with patients, family, carers, doctors, nurses, and other healthcare professionals.

- Pre-screen patients, gather information, and perform delegated outcome measure testing.

- Assist in delegated data collection and communicate with relevant medical and nursing staff.

- Accompany patients on home visits prior to discharge and communicate with relatives and carers.

**Requirements:**

- Relevant Foundation Degree/HND in Rehabilitation.

- Knowledge of common symptoms of medical, surgical, and orthopaedic conditions.

- Ability to work in a team and follow instructions.

- IT skills, accurate data entry skills, and good telephone skills.

- Full, valid UK driving licence and access to a car for business purposes.

**Benefits:**

- Opportunities for further development and progression.

- Friendly and progressive team.

- Various benefits offered to staff members.

## Skills

### Required
- Systmone
- clinical assessment
- rehabilitation
- patient care
- communication
- teamwork
- driving

### Nice to have
- administrative experience
- NHS experience
- experience with different medically impaired patients

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