Home-Based Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust; England; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 37,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner to support the West Urgent Community Response Therapy Team in delivering high-quality therapy services in patients' homes across a 7-day week.

You will assess patients with physical needs, work with the MDT, use SystmOne, and follow established pathways. Supervision by Band 6 OT or Band 7 Physiotherapist; opportunities for ongoing professional development and multidisciplinary collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
• Work generically applying competency based treatment techniques/care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment pathway.
• Observe patients carrying out daily activities in their own homes as well as giving advice on equipment or methods they may use to make these tasks easier.
• Assist the patient with personal care as appropriate.
• Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
• Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
• Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
• Make basic judgements on patients' response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
• Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are documented on SystmOne.
• Ensure that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
• Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
• Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, incorporating motivation, encouragement and confidence building to enable patients to engage in their treatment/care/rehabilitation and management plan.
• Liaise with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) and communicate with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector as required to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.

Job description

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking a Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner to support the West Urgent Community Response Therapy Team in delivering high-quality therapy services in patients' homes across a 7-day week.

You will assess patients with physical needs, work with the MDT, use SystmOne, and follow established pathways. Supervision by Band 6 OT or Band 7 Physiotherapist; opportunities for ongoing professional development and multidisciplinary collaboration.