Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

The Assistant Practitioner Therapy role is within the y therapy Frailty team is to assess patients and provide treatment and discharge plans. The role involves working across both teams to support patients in their hospital Journey and assist in a rapid and safe discharge. The role is for a dual trained assistant practitioner working closely with physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, and assistant practitioners. The aim is to provide short-term assessments, and plan for discharge from hospital. 

A Band 3 to 4 development would be considered

Main duties of the job

The successful candidate will work 08:00-20:00 across a 7-day service and work within a competency-based framework to manage a caseload of clients. The role involves gaining baseline information from a variety of sources to enable comprehensive client assessment, working independently or jointly with qualified therapists (dependent on level of complexity) to fully assess client needs including physical, functional, social, and cognitive aspects. The candidate must be able to plan, review, and modify treatment directly in line with client goals and outcomes achieved per intervention and take responsibility for managing their own caseload whilst proactively accessing regular supervision and support to do so. The candidate must ensure every contact counts and gain supervision for tasks which are beyond competencies completed.

It is essential to work closely with other members of the MDT to provide holistic person-centred care, actively engage in training, supervision, reflection, and annual reviews, be proactive in accessing support when needed, managing risks as they occur, and being responsible for ensuring an appropriate level of activity for each client. Other duties may include performing audits, developing resources and ways of working in line with current research.

Working for our organisation

The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.

Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.

Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.

As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.

We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.

Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.

We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.

We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.

In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement.

 “We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

Person specification

Essential

Essential criteria

Level 5 FdSc appropriate subject

Desirable criteria

Further qualifications in relevant clinical area

Essential

Essential criteria

Significant experience working with people in a multidisciplinary healthcare/Therapeutic environment.

Desirable criteria

Experience presenting to groups.

Essential

Essential criteria

Evidence of Caseload Management

Desirable criteria

Use of System One

Essential

Essential criteria

Access to transport and the ability to travel within the required geographical area

Desirable criteria

Use of Own Car

Employer certification / accreditation badges