Associate Practitioner

North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust; Tees Valley; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Tees Valley is seeking a Band 4 healthcare professional to join their Community Integrated Assessment Team. The successful candidate will play a crucial role in supporting patients at home and in community settings, working with multidisciplinary teams to prevent hospital admissions and support safe discharges. Responsibilities include conducting assessments, developing treatment plans, and directly communicating with patients and healthcare providers. This position offers opportunities for professional growth and development within an integrated care setting.

Qualifications

• Experience in health or social care settings, especially in patient interaction.
• Ability to coordinate and communicate effectively with multidisciplinary teams.
• Competence in carrying out clinical tasks following a defined competency framework.

Responsibilities

• Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and health services.
• Address issues in treatment plans based on patient assessments.
• Complete assessments and ensure appropriate patient referrals.
• Provide support for complex patient interventions under supervision.
• Participate in working during extended hours if needed.

Job description

Position Overview

we are delighted in over a Band 4 permanent position. Based at Billingham Health Centre working within the Community Integrated Assessment Team. This is an exciting opportunity to join the Community Integrated Assessment Team working in line with the New NHS 10 Year Plan. Working alongside multidisciplinary teams, in preventing hospital admissions, supporting safe discharges from hospital, provide a rapid response and ongoing assessment for patients either at home or in a community setting.

Undertaking clinical tasks within competencies, supporting planning and carrying out patient previews, including liaising with families, carers, social workers, nurses and Gp's. Supporting the coordination of referral from the Integrated Single Point of Access and other community services that would also be identified as appropriate for those patients under the care of the Community Integrated Assessment Team.

This role supports the Band 5's and Band 3's with a future potential for those seeking further opportunities in future career development.

Responsibilities

• Actively and effectively communicate with the patient, carers, health, social care, the voluntary and private sector agencies as appropriate.
• Be responsible for ensuring problems identified following a direct or indirect patient contact are addressed in the outlined treatment plan.
• Be able to work towards successful completion of NEWs and clinical skills competencies, including being able to refer identified complications and red flags appropriately to registered staff if a patient is not progressing as expected.
• Be responsible for ensuring all problems identified following assessment are addressed in a treatment plan and that a patient is discharged appropriately from the caseload when all goals are met and referred onto relevant other agencies.
• Ensure those patients with less complex needs receive the appropriate support to be safe in their chosen environment, including the assessment for and provision of equipment as highlighted in the band 4 competency framework.
• Be responsible for completing the initial subjective/objective assessments on triaged non‑complex patients and completing relevant documentation following assessments to demonstrate clinical reasoning.
• Support registered staff in the assessment and intervention of more complex patients and be responsible for the continuing assessment following a baseline assessment performed by registered staff.
• Undertake more complex interventions under the direction of the registered therapist. Work closely and liaise with all members of the multidisciplinary team ensuring a seamless pathway of care.
• Effectively develop and implement a prescribed therapy plan including mobility/functional interventions to enable people to be safely rehabilitated in their home environment or residential rehabilitation unit.
• Participate in seven‑day and/or extended hours working if required.
• Deal sensitively with patients who have high levels of anxiety and aggression caused by pain, dementia or limited mobility in frequently distressing or emotional circumstances, providing care for distressed patients clients or clients with challenging behaviour.
• Able to prescribe equipment and walking aids to enable patients functional safety and mobility. Promote dignity and privacy to all patients.
• Ensure responsive and timely interventions to people in their own homes or needing support to return home or to a safe environment. Work in unpredictable community settings where working conditions may be unpleasant.

Benefits

Working as part of the wider Tees Hospital University Trust offers huge benefits in delivering an integrated hospital and community healthcare to the population with our community. We aim to put people first using resources to benefit the wider community. We aim to continually strive to improve and transform services and are looking for a dynamic team to help us deliver on the future vision of the organisation.