Assistant Practitioner Therapy – Frailty Team
The Assistant Practitioner Therapy role is within the y therapy Frailty team is to assess patients and provide treatment and discharge plans. The role involves working across both teams to support patients in their hospital Journey and assist in a rapid and safe discharge. The role is for a dual trained assistant practitioner working closely with physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, and assistant practitioners. The aim is to provide short-term assessments, and plan for discharge from hospital.
A Band 3 to 4 development would be considered.
The successful candidate will work 08:00-20:00 across a 7-day service and work within a competency-based framework to manage a caseload of clients. The role involves gaining baseline information from a variety of sources to enable comprehensive client assessment, working independently or jointly with qualified therapists (dependent on level of complexity) to fully assess client needs including physical, functional, social, and cognitive aspects. The candidate must be able to plan, review, and modify treatment directly in line with client goals and outcomes achieved per intervention and take responsibility for managing their own caseload whilst proactively accessing regular supervision and support to do so. The candidate must ensure every contact counts and gain supervision for tasks which are beyond competencies completed.
It is essential to work closely with other members of the MDT to provide holistic person-centred care, actively engage in training, supervision, reflection, and annual reviews, be proactive in accessing support when needed, managing risks as they occur, and being responsible for ensuring an appropriate level of activity for each client. Other duties may include performing audits, developing resources and ways of working in line with current research.
The Humber Health Partnership is one of the largest acute and community Partnership arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Partnership has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Partnership and our community.
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For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Paul Chapman Job title: Team Leader Email address: paul.chapman5@nhs.net Telephone number: 03033302587
Megan O'Hara
Operational Lead
megan.ohara1@nhs.net
07825120051
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