Generic Rehabilitation Assistant - Community Rehabilitation Service

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The closing date is 22 February 2026

Are you a passionate and enthusiastic Healthcare Support Worker? Do you want to be part of a forward thinking, dynamic workforce? if you have answered Yes! Then HIOW Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust -- Community Rehabilitation Service (CRS) has an exciting opportunity for you to join our dynamic team. This permanent position is well suited to an individual that is looking to provide excellent nursing care to the Portsmouth Community in a thriving and supportive workplace.

CRS is a multi-disciplinary team made from staff employed by Health and Adult Social Care for residents of the Portsmouth City area. The service aim is to help individuals remain at home and to avoid unnecessary admission to hospital, and to facilitate discharge from hospital by offering assessment of immediate needs.

The team work hard to ensure high quality person-centred care is at the heart of everything we do, and our staff are supported in their roles and encouraged to develop. You will be required to work within the wider multi-disciplinary team providing evaluating and communicating effectively with other teams within the Service.

You will work as a member of a multidisciplinary team alongside service users to promote independence and daily living skills, which will include supporting with personal hygiene needs, diet, fluids and meal preparation, encouraging them to engage in social or leisure activities as identified within their Care Plan

This role will provide support in management of risk, developing therapeutic relationships, supporting people to live meaningful and fulfilling lives.

Act as a role model for team members, supporting new or less experienced colleagues.

This role will assist and support qualified staff and carry out assigned tasks as directed, without supervision

This will include housekeeping duties where required

This role will demonstrate excellent communication skills, using them to engage, persuade or negotiate with clients with complex, at times challenging needs to ensure they are provided with the most appropriate care and support

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person s care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust s Recruitment…