Urgent Community Response Therapy Community Assistant Practitioner

NHS Jobs; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust is seeking an Urgent Community Response Therapy Community Assistant Practitioner to support patients with straightforward therapy needs under supervision, following department protocols.

You will assess, implement and monitor treatment plans, document in SystmOne daily, and liaise with MDTs, GPs and Social Services to ensure coordinated care. The role is based in King's Lynn and focuses on timely, community-based rehabilitation and support.

Qualifications

• Assess patients with straightforward therapy needs according to department protocols.
• Support assessment, treatment, and discharge processes under supervision.

Responsibilities

• Assess patients with straightforward therapy requirements and use prescribed pathways.
• Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in clinical settings.
• Document care plans and interventions in SystmOne daily.
• Liaise with GPs, MDTs, Social Services and other healthcare professionals as required.
• Support patients with daily activities and rehabilitation in the community.

Job description

Urgent Community Response Therapy Community Assistant Practitioner

Clinical Skills Assess patients with straight forward therapy requirements based on predetermined department protocols.2. Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.3. 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.4. Observe patients carrying out daily activites in their own homes as well as giving advice on equipment or methods they may use to make these taskseasier.5. Assist the patient with personal care as appropriate.6. Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.7. Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.8. Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.9. Make basic judgements on patients response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.10.Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these aredocumented on SystmOne.11.Ensure that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.12.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.13.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.14.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.

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust

Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust