Assistant Practitioner

NHS; Dunstable; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare trust in the UK is seeking a qualified individual to provide therapeutic interventions in a multidisciplinary team setting. Responsibilities include assessing client needs, planning interventions, and maintaining client records. Candidates must have a GCSE in Maths and English, and an NVQ in Health and Social Care is desirable. This role requires strong interpersonal skills and a commitment to client well-being. Enjoy a permanent, full-time position with a supportive team environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a Health or Social care setting is essential.
• Experience working with adult clients with physical conditions is required.
• Passion to learn new therapy skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess, plan, and implement therapeutic interventions.
• Form relationships with clients and carers.
• Ensure client record management.

Skills

Understanding of physical conditions

Knowledge of mental health conditions

Ability to handle clients safely

Willingness to learn

Education

GCSE Maths and English

NVQ 2 or 3 in Health and Social Care

Job description

Job summary

• Works within the multidisciplinary team in a primary care setting including clients' homes, residential homes and clinic, providing support for a variety of therapeutic and clinical interventions based on the team skill mix.
• Participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and individualised therapeutic interventions under the guidance of the multidisciplinary team
• To identify and provide appropriate assistive equipment for clients to facilitate safety in their chosen environment.
• To work autonomously and undertake lone working in the community. To work a variety of shift patterns which include weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
• To travel across the county as service demands require.

Main duties of the job

Responsible for assessing, planning and implementing therapeutic interventions. To assess, demonstrate and provide appropriate, adaptive equipment to meet specific client needs and to facilitate safety in the chosen environment.

To form professional relationships with clients, family and carers and communicate condition related information to them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.

To involve clients, family and carers in the planning of care/rehabilitation programs and encourage self‑management where appropriate. Promoting self‑management of health related conditions.

To have an enhanced level of knowledge of support services within the community.

To communicate effectively with all members of the Integrated Community Services team. To support and promote wider team working.

To provide written reports and verbal feedback to the team regarding clients' performance/progress in areas of self‑maintenance, productivity and leisure.

To act as named person for the client to contact within the department and to feedback relevant issues to senior staff.

Maintain professional, responsible and appropriate relationships with managers, colleagues, clients, their family/friends and other services.

To support other departments and localities within the Therapy Services at the request of management as demand requires.

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.

Date posted

19 December 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£27,485 to £30,162 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full‑time

Reference number

363-CHB7542265-B

Job locations

Grove View Integrated Health and Care Hub

Court Drive

Dunstable

LU5 4JD

Job description – Responsibilities

To provide advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals to promote the understanding of the aims of therapy and to ensure a constant approach to patient care.

To undertake advanced holistic therapeutic assessments with a diverse range and complexity of physical and psychological conditions which increase the risk of falls.

To hold own caseload of clients referred. Taking responsibility for accepting and discharging these patients, undertaking all aspects of clinical duties required within the pathway as an autonomous practitioner.

To ensure the client record on Systm1 contains the clients full journey in a timely manner.

Person Specification – Education / Qualification / Training

Essential

• GCSE Maths and English
• NVQ 2 or 3 in Health and Social Care and/or significant care experience

Desirable

• Completed Care Certificate

Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in a Health or Social care setting
• Experience of working in community/therapy teams
• Experience of working with adult clients with primarily physical conditions

Desirable

• Significant experience of client personal, physical and general care tasks

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• An understanding of a wide range of physical conditions or willingness to learn.
• Knowledge and understanding of mental health conditions.
• Be able to undertake frequent standing, kneeling, crouching, hoisting and other moving and handling procedures. Regularly move and handle clients that may require moderate physical effort, in confined spaces and often unsuitable environments, using relevant practical experience, equipment and skills that enable optimum safety and best practice.

Desirable

• Ability to complete basic wound care and clinical observations

Other Essential

• A passion to learn new therapy skills to support clients
• Willing to work to meet the needs of the service (to include weekends, bank holidays)
• Holds a full UK Drivers licence and access to a vehicle to use for work purposes

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab). From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer name

East London NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Grove View Integrated Health and Care Hub

Court Drive

Dunstable

LU5 4JD

Employer's website

https://www.elft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)