Community therapy team

What is rehabilitation?

Rehabilitation, or rehab for short, helps promote independence in activities of daily living.

Rehab involves working with individuals, their families and carers to address underlying health conditions and symptoms effecting daily life.

The service can provide adaptations and support to benefit individuals, including:

• Provision of assistive equipment
• Deliver education and prescribe exercises to promote self-management and preserve independence.

Who are we?

The team comprises of:

• Physiotherapists
• Occupational therapists
• Therapy assistant practitioners
• Therapy assistants

What do we do?

An initial assessment will be completed by one of the team. If you require further treatment, a therapy plan will be formulated with you to help you work towards your agreed therapy goals.

Specific goals will be set at the initial assessment, which will be personalised and meaningful to your rehabilitation. The team may provide regular home visits to ensure you are supported throughout the rehabilitation journey.

This service is not designed to provide long term rehabilitation and once you have achieved your goals, or rehabilitation with therapy has failed to progress, then you will be discharged.

Our aims

• Provide rehabilitation in your own environment

• Support hospital discharges

• Reduce the risk of hospital admissions

Rehabilitation inclusion criteria

The team works with individuals following injury, illness or a decline in ability who require rehabilitation to help facilitate improvements in activities of daily living.

Our service is for people who are:

• Over 18 years old
• Living in the Redcar and Cleveland or Middlesbrough catchment area
• Medically stable
• Unable to attend hospital appointments or requires an environmental assessment

Rehabilitation exclusion criteria

• Under 18 years old

• Medically unstable

• Manual handling assessment only

• Equipment provision only

• Bed provision only

• Pressure care only

• Acute respiratory interventions

• Wheelchair or specialist seating only

Patient experience

As a team, we value your feedback and would like to hear about your recent experience with the community therapy team.

When selecting a service, please select either:

• Community therapies: Redcar
• Community therapies: Middlesbrough

South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust would like to hear your feedback.

If you wish to provide further feedback and share your experience about your care and treatment or on behalf of a patient, please contact the patient experience department who will advise you.

To ensure we meet your communication needs, please inform the patient experience department of any special requirements, for example; braille or large print.

Patient experience contact details

• Telephone: 01642 835964
• Email: [email protected]
• Address: The James Cook University Hospital, Marton Road, Middlesbrough, TS4 3BW.