Primary Care Assistant Practitioner

NHS; London; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 26,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider is looking for a Primary Care Assistant Practitioner to join their Complex Case Team in London. This role involves delivering essential care under the guidance of healthcare professionals, ensuring high standards of patient support and collaboration in a multi-professional environment.

Qualifications

• Meets requirements of the role.

Responsibilities

• Provide support to registered nurses and therapists.
• Deliver high-quality care and evidence-based interventions.
• Participate in complex care delivery and document patient progress.

Skills

Knowledge of patient needs

Care delivery

Communication

Education

Meets requirements of the role

Job description

Bexley Complex Case Team are looking for a Primary Care Assistant Practitioner to join the team. The successful post holder will work clinically within the team, providing support to the Nurses, Occupational Therapist and Physiotherapists within the multi-professional team.

The service operates Monday to Friday 9am - 5pm

Main duties of the job

The Primary Care Assistant Practitioner will deliver a high level of care and evidence-based interventions. The postholder will provide a wide range of practical care duties and be able to take appropriate action to achieve planned aims and objectives of individual clients under the supervision of the registered nurses/therapists and be accountable for the standards of such delegated duties.

The Complex Case Team provides safe, effective, clinical care and support to patients, their families, and carers. The team work in collaboration with GPs, Local Authorities (Social Services), voluntary sector and other Oxleas' teams to delivering high quality evidence-based care to clients within their own home, residential homes, and other care home facilities.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We Listen
• We Care

Job responsibilities

To have knowledge of specific physical, emotional, physiological, social, cultural, and spiritual needs of patients and their carers, taking these into account and under direction of the registered health professional, implement appropriate action to meet those needs.

Manage priorities as delegated by the registered nurse/therapist.

To undertake other duties commensurate with the banding of this post in agreement with the relevant line manager

To accept delegated assessment responsibility, delivering individual plans of care to meet the immediate needs and on-going needs of the service users and their carers.

To participate in the delivery of complex care as prescribed by the registered healthcare professional.

Plan and document the patients progress on the Trusts information systems.

To maintain a professional standard of record keeping which is accurate and current, in line with professional codes, service standards and team specific requirements.

To evaluate patient progress and discuss with senior clinicians through feedback discussions and multi-disciplinary meetings.

To demonstrate the correct use of equipment to optimise patients functional ability and independence.

To demonstrate elements of self-care to patients and their carers so that the patients independence is maximised.

To contribute to the team and service development, identifying opportunities to improve service delivery in order to provide best patient care in relation to resources available and evidenced-based practice, with the assistance of the registered nurses and other healthcare professionals.

Ability to identify/manage and take action to minimise or eradicate risk to patients.

Ensure safe, appropriate, and effective provision and demonstration of stock equipment.

Person Specification

Education

• Meets requirements of the role

Experience

• Meets requirements of the role

Experience at Band 3/4

• Meets requirement's of the role

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.