Assistant Practitioner

NHS; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is seeking a Therapy Assistant to join their multidisciplinary team across Liverpool. This role involves providing support to patients in community settings, ensuring high-quality care and promoting independence. The ideal candidate will have a Foundation Degree or equivalent and strong communication skills. Join this supportive team to enhance your career while making a difference in patients’ lives.

Benefits

Robust support structure with clinical supervision

Opportunities for training and professional development

Flexible working patterns

Qualifications

• Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
• Experience of previous work in health care
• Knowledge of health promotion strategies

Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively within the team to deliver health priorities
• Be accountable for own clinical practice
• Undertake clinical tasks following patient specific direction

Skills

Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills

Ability to travel for work

Education

Foundation Degree or equivalent work-based experience

Job description

Liverpool Community Physiotherapy service provides therapy and rehabilitation in patients homes. We aim to promote independence and improve quality of life for people with physical problems caused by accidents, ageing, disease or disability. These include respiratory conditions, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions, mobility issues, neurological conditions and those receiving palliative care.

We're looking for a therapy assistant/assistant practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team across Liverpool. If you're motivated, with therapy experience and skills, a passion to be part this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you.

The role involves working across Liverpool community teams (North, Central, South, Care Homes and Falls) on a rotational basis to provide support to our patients in their homes and other community settings, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.

We're a very supportive team with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and assistant practitioners.

Main duties of the job

We'll encourage your development whether through training, job shadowing, internal promotion etc.

What we offer

• A robust support structure with regular clinical supervision and performance development review
• Opportunities to support service delivery including audits, in-service training, etc.
• An innovative NHS Trust that's committed to investing in its future and its staff
• Be part of the development of services at the centre of the future direction of healthcare
• Structured career progression, support and opportunities
• Flexible working patterns and our commitment to a good work life balance.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.

At the heart of all we do is our commitment to 'perfect care' - care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We're currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles

Job responsibilities

Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.

Be accountable for own clinical practice.

Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.

Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.

Act as an advocate and champion for clients.

Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.

Lead on health promotion activities as required.

Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.

Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.

Participate in individual clinical supervision.

Participate in audit as required by the organisation.

Undertake all relevant mandatory training.

Travel across the Liverpool City Region to deliver care in patient's homes & community settings.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work based experience.

Knowledge/Experience

• Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care.
• Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health.
• Experience of previous work in health care.
• Clinical Governance and Risk Management.
• Actively Involved in professional development.
• Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
• Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients

Skills

• Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to travel, for work purposes.

Values

• Accountability
• Support
• High professional standards
• Responsive to service users
• Engaging leadership style
• Transparency and honesty
• Discreet
• Change oriented

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.