Would you like to make a difference through your work?
We are opening an exciting new service at Waterman’s Lodge, Ballina, Co. Tipperary and we are looking for Residential Rehabilitation Assistants to join our team. Does this sound like the role for you?
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The Role of a Rehabilitation Assistant
The role of the Residential Rehabilitation Assistant is to support and assist people with an acquired brain injury on every aspect of activities of daily living to live valued lives of optimal independence and participation in activities within the community.
Our Rehabilitation Assistants are highly trained specialists and a crucial part of our team. They work with brain injury survivors on a daily basis, providing the guidance and support they need to achieve their goals.
Rehabilitation Assistants are expert communicators with hands-on experience of the impacts of brain injury for the person and their families. They are constantly building their skills and undergoing ongoing training to ensure they can respond to the needs of those they support.
With a person-centred approach, you will assist each individual to plan and direct their lives, meet the needs identified in their individual rehabilitation plan and support outcomes that are meaningful to the person in conjunction with their overall needs, integrating more fully into the
community and achieving their potential.
About Our New Service
This state-of-the-art new rehabilitative residential service for brain injury survivors will open in Ballina Co. Tipperary in Spring 2024.
The dedicated service has been funded by Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, in partnership with the HSE, and will initially house four people and employ approximately 15 rehabilitation professionals – with scope to expand.
The neuro-rehabilitation service will be the latest development in our ongoing work to deliver housing to support best practice rehabilitation and independence for brain injury survivors – and follows award winning housing already opened in Dublin, Sligo, Waterford city, Clarecastle and Donegal. Further new rehabilitation services are being progressed in Cork and Clare.
The development called Waterman’s Lodge will help in part to address the national issue of hundreds of young people with brain injuries being inappropriately placed in nursing homes, as raised by the Ombudsman in the 2021 Wasted Lives report.
