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A fantastic opportunity has arisen for a band 4 Therapy Assistant Practitioner to work within the Rapid Response Therapy Team (RRTS) in Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospital NHS Trust. We are seeking an individual who has experience working as a therapy assistant in an acute setting and thrives under pressure while working well as a key member of a team.
You Will Be Working As Part Of The Cohesive Multiprofessional Team Within Our Emergency Department (ED), Acute Medical Units (AMU), And The Frailty Assessment Unit (FAU). You will be supporting the team in achieving its key objectives:
* Preventing unnecessary hospital admissions
* Facilitating hospital discharges and transfers of care to intermediate care and community services
* Commencing therapy for frail older adults who are being admitted
The Role Involves:
* Supporting patients with exercise programmes and rehabilitation
* Progressing patients' level of mobility
* Assisting in the execution of discharge plans including provision of equipment
* Completing tasks delegated by the team's qualified therapists
* Administrative duties
* Interacting with patients, relatives, and carers
* Participating in team meetings, quality improvement half days, supervision, and personal development
If you feel you have the required skills to undertake this role, are flexible, proactive, caring, and eager to learn, we would love to hear from you.
Assess the rehabilitation needs of individual patients presenting with diverse and complex problems using enhanced knowledge, skills, and experience while following departmental protocols at the front doors, wards like A&E and Acute Medical Units. This includes receiving complex and sensitive information from the patient.
Formulate and provide instruction and training in complex rehabilitative exercise programmes to individuals and groups of patients following departmental protocols, progressing those programmes as appropriate.
Assess patient understanding of treatment proposals, gain valid informed consent, and have the capacity to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment.
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care are at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens next year and will provide care to our local population from first-class, purpose-built premises. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We Have Three Newly Emerging Strategic Objectives:
* Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
* Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
* Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
For further details or informal visits contact:
Name: Dave Fernandes
Job title: Service Lead- Rapid Response Therapy Team
Email address: dave.fernandes1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07812707726
Seniority level
* Entry level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Industries: Hospitals and Health Care
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