Assistant Practitioner - Community Stroke Service | Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Nottingham; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join their Community Stroke Team in Nottinghamshire. This full-time role involves providing high-quality therapeutic care, supporting stroke patients in their recovery journey. Candidates should possess strong communication skills and the ability to work within a multidisciplinary team. The position offers extensive professional development opportunities, and a commitment to patient-centered care is essential. Benefits include generous annual leave, flexible working conditions, and an extensive health and wellbeing package.

Benefits

Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing package

Staff discount schemes

Qualifications

• Strong clinical ability to assess patients with physical health care needs.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Ability to develop therapy treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality care in community settings for stroke patients.
• Analyze and develop therapy treatment plans collaboratively.
• Support patients in achieving their health and independence goals.

Skills

Compassionate care

Excellent communication skills

Team collaboration

Adaptability

Analytical skills

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our established Integrated Community Stroke Service to deliver rehabilitation into various community settings. The role of Therapy Assistant Practitioner in the Multidisciplinary Community Stroke Team would be to provide high quality holistic, evidence based care to patients / service users that is responsive, effective and efficient. You would work with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language therapists, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Support Workers.

Care is currently delivered 8am-5pm, 5 days a week, including Bank Holidays. Weekend working may be required in the future.

The Community Health Services Division of NottsHC has an extensive portfolio providing children, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. Offering various roles and career development opportunities, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.

Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great opportunities to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.

This role requires day‑to‑day delivery of therapeutic care in our Integrated Community Stroke Multidisciplinary Team of AHPs, together you all make the difference. You will need to:

Key Responsibilities

• Demonstrate your passion and clinical ability to assess patients who present with significant physical health care needs.
• Support our patients within the community to enable them to live their optimum life, being self‑caring and independent with their health needs following a stroke.
• Analyse and develop therapy treatment plans, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, providing compassionate, realistic and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.
• Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.

#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.

We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.

We offer a variety of employee‑led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.

The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in‑house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.

The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net‑zero commitment.

We are looking for a full time Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our dedicated Community Stroke Team across the South of Nottinghamshire.

We are looking for someone who is able to demonstrate motivation, drive commitment and passion for promoting health, well‑being and independence for stroke patients in the community. We are a values‑based Trust and are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians who believe in the provision of patient‑centred care.

As a Community Stroke service, we aim to offer a high quality therapy led Multidisciplinary Team approach providing stroke rehabilitation in a patient’s home focused around achievement of agreed rehabilitation goals. As an Assistant Practitioner in the Community Stroke team you would be expected to undertake therapy assessments and devise treatment plans with indirect support of the qualified clinicians.

We are an experienced existing provider of Community Stroke Rehabilitation and as part of our service we provide a review for patients after stroke at 6 and 12 months. As an Assistant Practitioner you may be required to undertake these assessments as part of this role when required. This encompasses completing a holistic review of all the service users health needs related to their stroke, together with advice and signposting for services.

With a strong focus on quality improvement we continually strive to make a difference, providing an integrated and person‑centred approach enabling transformation of services to ensure outstanding delivery of care to the people and communities we serve.

We know that compassionate leadership, which focuses on staff engagement and inclusion, supporting staff well‑being and quality will deliver excellent outcomes for patients and therefore adopt a bottom up approach to ensure all staff voices are heard and contribute to strategic and operational improvements, promoting shared ambitions resulting in achievable outcomes.

Working with us will provide you the opportunity to really make a difference in ensuring that quality services are delivered both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients.

We therefore seek a compassionate, dynamic, innovative Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join us on this journey and ensure our patients continue to receive exceptional care and we continue to be recognised as a great place to work.

The Community Stroke Team is split into three localities. The base of this role is within the locality of Rushcliffe. The team work closely and will require you to work flexibly, across the whole of South Nottinghamshire, to support our evolving and developing service, supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care.

This position requires you to work independently, but also be a team player, working closely with our Integrated Care Provider partners providing care to a diverse population covering many different geographies including, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe.

As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations.

You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer:

Benefits

• Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
• Pension scheme
• Flexible working and job share opportunities
• Promotion of a healthy work life balance
• Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme
• Receive an induction which is tailored to suit your individual needs.
• Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
• Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted leisure Centre membership
• Free on‑site parking (dependent on site)
• An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
• Support for carers

Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our website.

The job description and person specification is attached for further information on this position and should you wish to discuss this post further, please contact Claire Lee - Team Lead 07973 656 678 or alternatively [e-mail] or Michelle McMillan 07973946448 [e-mail]

A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.

If you want to be the Therapy Assistant Practitioner that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application.

Please note this is NOT an Assistant Psychology Practitioner post it is an Assistant Therapy Practitioner position.

Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.

You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.