Urgent Community Response Service
Position: Therapy Assistant Band 3
Base: Sleaford/Lincoln (travel across county required)
This is an exciting time to join the UCR Team as we evolve to meet the needs of patients in Lincolnshire. Do you have a passion for admission avoidance? Are you committed to delivering an outstanding service that is fast-paced and reliable? Do you want to work with a team of caring and dedicated staff? If you answered yes to these questions, then we'd love to hear from you.
We are looking for a highly motivated and autonomous therapy assistant to be part of our UCR team. This service provides holistic assessments, treatment, and support to patients in their usual place of residence who are experiencing a health or social care crisis and might otherwise be admitted to hospital or require ambulance call-out. You will be part of a service in which care is provided by a multi-skilled team.
The UCR service is a fast-paced, interdisciplinary community team aimed at preventing unnecessary admission to hospital by visiting patients in their own homes and assessing the patient’s safety to remain out of the acute environment. Patients are aged over 18 and are likely to present with frailty, falls, or health deterioration. The team ensures the patient is supported out of hospital for a minimum of 48 hours and ensures transfer to appropriate services on discharge.
You will play a key role in supporting the UCR team in delivering high-quality patient-centered care to support individuals to remain safely at home. You will be working with a full multidisciplinary team of ACPs, physiotherapists, nurses, paramedics, occupational therapists, assistant practitioners, and rehabilitation assistants.
You will also be part of our falls response service, which aims to support patients who have fallen at home, providing a falls pick-up response and supporting with a holistic assessment of the individual's needs to support them to remain safely at home.
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 percent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.
At LCHS, we know diversity fosters creativity and innovation. We are committed to equality of opportunity, to being fair and inclusive, and to being a place where all belong. We therefore particularly encourage applications from candidates who are likely to be underrepresented in LCHS’ workforce.
LCHS recognizes the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism, and respond to changing service needs more effectively.
We are ambassadors of a learning culture that will support the right individual to progress in their chosen career through an ‘earn while you learn’ apprenticeship programme. Visit our Learning and Development page to find out more: Learning and Development.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Work as an integrated member of the Urgent Community Response Service delivering person-centered care.
2. Assist Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Nurses, Paramedics, and the wider multidisciplinary team with patient interventions.
3. Deliver clinical interventions defined within individualised patient care plans, as directed by senior staff.
4. Maintain high-quality standards in all aspects of care delivery, working in partnership with primary care colleagues, other health professionals, patients, carers, and statutory, independent, and voluntary organisations.
The service operates from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. #J-18808-Ljbffr