Overview
The Assistant Practitioner Therapy role will be within the Hospital team. The role is to offer assessments and treatments to optimise patients' mobility and discharge planning from hospital. The role is for a dual-trained assistant practitioner working closely with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and other assistant practitioners to meet the expected targets.
You will work alongside qualified members of staff to offer high-end therapy assessments and treatments meeting the service user's needs. You will play a vital role in their discharge planning assessment for ongoing help and support or facilitating discharge home. Weekend working will be required.
Responsibilities
* Work within a competency-based framework to manage an allocated caseload of clients.
* Gain baseline information from a variety of sources to enable comprehensive client assessment.
* Work independently or jointly with qualified therapists (dependent on competencies gained and level of complexity), to fully assess client needs including physical, functional, social, and cognitive aspects.
* Plan, review and modify treatment directly in line with client goals and outcomes achieved per intervention.
* Take responsibility for managing own caseload within required timescales, proactively accessing regular supervision and support; seek supervision for tasks beyond competencies.
* Monitor and progress treatment format in line with clinical needs and client goals, ensuring the use of validated outcome measures with each individual.
* Document interventions within Trust standards on System One. Work closely with other MDT members to provide holistic, person-centred care.
* Audit response to treatment and develop and modify resources and ways of working in line with current research.
* Actively engage in training, supervision, reflection and annual reviews; be proactive in accessing support when needed, managing risks as they occur and ensuring an appropriate level of activity against the individual Job Plan.
Location
This post will be based within the respiratory team at DPOW hospital; however, it may offer support as required to other specialty areas.
Organisation and Equality
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community partnership arrangements in the NHS, serving well over one million patients annually and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion. We value a diverse, inclusive and innovative workforce and are committed to delivering excellent care. We welcome applications irrespective of age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
Flexible Working and Benefits
We are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees; flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life. Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
Data Protection and DBS
In line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Recruitment & Workforce team will use and hold your personal data for the intended purpose and in line with the Recruitment & Workforce Privacy Statement. DBS checks, if required for the role, will incur a cost for new employees.
This advert closes on Tuesday 9 Sep 2025.
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