Acute Rehabilitation Assistant Employment Contract UK

Responsibilities reflected in the contract

• Deliver delegated ward exercise and mobility practice.
• Prepare and check mobility aids before use.
• Support transfers within assessed handling plans.
• Observe symptoms lines and patient response.
• Record activity and hand over material changes.
• Escalate deterioration or unsafe ward conditions.

A realistic working scenario

A patient becomes breathless during a delegated transfer. The assistant stops, makes them safe and alerts nursing and therapy staff.

Outputs to agree

• safe delegated rehabilitation
• accurate session feedback
• ready equipment

Records and evidence

• Delegated plan.
• Assistance and response.
• Equipment.
• Change and escalation.
• Work records.
• Handover notes.

Reporting relationship

Typically reports to Line Manager or Department Manager. Confirm the employer's actual reporting structure in the builder.

Authority and escalation

• The assistant follows specified parameters; assessment and substantive progression require a registered therapist.
• Obtain approval before committing expenditure, changing contractual commitments or making regulated or staffing decisions outside the assigned role.

Tools and systems

• Care planning systems.
• Mobility equipment.

Workplace context

• Practice reception, clinical administration areas and approved patient-facing areas.

Training and certification

• Complete employer-required safeguarding training.
• Complete employer-required health and safety training.

Contract priorities

• delegation
• ward mobility
• infection control
• deterioration response

Information the employer should prepare

• the wards specialties and patient acuity
• the delegated scope and competency checks
• the staffing and clinical supervision model
• the manual-handling equipment available
• the lines drains and precaution training
• the shift handover and emergency routes