Assistant Practitioner

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Liverpool seeks a Therapy Assistant to join their multidisciplinary teams. The role involves delivering therapeutic interventions and supporting patient well-being. Candidates should have therapy experience and strong communication skills. Flexible working options are available. Contact Tania Sparks or Bronagh Jones for more details.

Qualifications

• Motivated and passionate about delivering care.
• Access to a car for community access.
• Ability and willingness to engage in mandatory training.

Responsibilities

• Deliver therapeutic interventions to promote patient well-being.
• Be accountable for own clinical practice.
• Lead health promotion activities as needed.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers.

Skills

Therapy experience

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Job description

ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) within Central and South Liverpool is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support hospital admission avoidance and early hospital discharges from a care transfer hub perspective.

We’re looking for therapy assistants to join our multidisciplinary teams across Central and South Liverpool. If you’re motivated, with therapy experience, a passion to be part of this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.

The role can involve working across ICRAS supporting our rehabilitation hubs, care transfer hub and community, 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 advanced clinical practitioners, senior nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy and health practitioner assistants.

Key responsibilities include:

• Working collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver therapeutic interventions to promote patients' well-being and functional independence.
• Working within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
• Being accountable for own clinical practice and personal development.
• Delivering care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
• Acting as an advocate and champion for clients.
• Leading on health promotion activities as required.
• Undertaking clinical tasks, following patient-specific direction.
• Communicating 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.
• Participating in individual clinical supervision and appraisal.
• Supporting the delivery/completion of audits within the team.
• Undertaking all relevant mandatory training.

Please note that access to a car is required to access the community. 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.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles. For further details or informal visits, please contact: Name: Tania Sparks / Bronagh Jones, Job title: Therapy Co-ordinator, Email address: [e-mail], Telephone number: 0151 247 6740

Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Previous applicants need not apply.