Therapy Assistant Practitioner

EAST LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST; Shefford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS healthcare provider in the United Kingdom is looking for a healthcare professional to join their multidisciplinary team. The role involves providing support to clients in a variety of settings, conducting assessments, and developing care plans in collaboration with clients and their families. Successful candidates will have a relevant healthcare qualification and strong communication skills. The position offers flexible working arrangements and potential relocation assistance.

Benefits

Flexible working arrangements

Relocation support up to £10,000

Opportunities for professional development

Qualifications

• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams is essential.
• Ability to perform advanced assessments and provide interventions.
• Competence in managing a caseload of clients.

Responsibilities

• Work with clients in various settings to provide therapeutic support.
• Communicate and build relationships with clients and their families.
• Maintain detailed client records and provide feedback to the team.
• Ensure care plans are created with client involvement.

Skills

Therapeutic and clinical interventions

Communication skills

Teamwork

Holistic assessments

Client relationship management

Education

Relevant healthcare qualification

Job description

Responsibilities

• Work within the multidisciplinary team in a primary care setting, including clients' homes, residential homes and clinics, providing support for a variety of therapeutic and clinical interventions based on the team skill mix.
• Participate in assessment, planning, implementation and individualised therapeutic interventions under the guidance of the multidisciplinary team.
• Identify and provide appropriate assistive equipment to facilitate client safety in their chosen environment.
• Work autonomously and undertake lone working in the community, covering a variety of shift patterns including weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
• Travel across the county as service demands require.
• Form professional relationships with clients, family and carers, communicating condition‑related information in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
• Involve clients, family and carers in planning care/rehabilitation programmes and encourage self‑management where appropriate.
• Promote self‑management of health‑related conditions and possess an enhanced level of knowledge of support services within the community.
• Communicate effectively with all members of the Integrated Community Services team and support and promote wider team working.
• Provide written reports and verbal feedback to the team regarding clients' performance, progress in self‑maintenance, productivity and leisure.
• Act as named person for the client to contact within the department and feedback relevant issues to senior staff.
• Maintain professional, responsible and appropriate relationships with managers, colleagues, clients, their family/friends and other services.
• Provide advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals to promote the understanding of the aims of therapy and to ensure a constant approach to patient care.
• Undertake advanced holistic therapeutic assessments with a diverse range and complexity of physical and psychological conditions which increase the risk of falls.
• Hold own caseload of clients referred, accepting and discharging patients and undertaking all clinical duties required within the pathway as an autonomous practitioner.
• Ensure the client record on Systm1 contains the client's full journey in a timely manner.

Quality Improvement

Quality Improvement is a key part of our work to improve our services and refine how we do things. We have a global reputation for our quality improvement work and we don't stand still! So we offer a fantastic opportunity for our staff to learn, lead and contribute towards improving our services.

We launched our Five Year Strategy in April 2018, which identified four main strategic outcomes to improve: population health outcomes, experience of care, staff experience and improve value. This complements the NHS Long Term Strategy and sets out our direction of travel.

About the Trust

We provide a wide range of community health and mental health inpatient services to children, young people, adults of working age, and older adults in the City of London, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets, Bedfordshire and Luton. We also provide psychological therapy services to the London Borough of Richmond, and forensic services to the whole of North East London. Services are delivered in urban and rural settings, mostly in the community close to where people live. Integrated care is key in making the best use of resources and providing effective care.

We were rated ‘Outstanding’ by the CQC in 2016, 2018 and 2021. We were named in the Health Service Journal’s Top 10 best places to work in healthcare and were voted Provider Trust of the Year in 2018.

We strive to ensure that staff feel valued by the trust and as they are truly pivotal in delivering better outcomes for our patients and service users. Our aspiration is to help make ELFT the best place to work. This trust is clinician‑led and provides the highest possible level of clinical expertise throughout its services. We pride ourselves on our service‑user involvement. A service user will be on your assessment centre and interview panel if you are invited to meet us.

ELFT is committed to being a diverse organisation and our workforce is reflective of the population and communities we serve. We believe that having colleagues with a range of backgrounds and life experiences enriches and adds value to the outcomes we have set out to achieve. Our recruitment and career journey are built on accessible, fair and inclusive practices supported by staff networks.

Flexible Working

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might accommodate a flexible working arrangement – whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern.

Relocation

As part of the relocation scheme we presently have, the trust could support you with offering up to £10,000 for removal and associated expenses. This is subject to change and terms and conditions apply.

Mission and Values

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive – so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the trust and our partner organisations.