Main area: Assistant Practitioner Grade NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (Some weekend working required)
Job ref: 301-ME-25-7136051
Employer: Midlands Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Haywood Hospital
Town: Burslem
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 27/04/2025 08:00
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
The Therapy Team on Sneyd Ward delivers care and rehabilitation over a 7 day service to adults admitted to the ward with a new onset Stroke from across the local acute portals. The team focuses on ensuring the service users are supported physically, cognitively, and emotionally within a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model using client-centred practice. In this role, you will be working as part of an inter-disciplinary team where you will need to work alongside all disciplines with a proactive approach to service users' recovery, embedding quality at its core. Under the direction of registered physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists, you will be involved in the implementation and evaluation of SMART goals to ensure service users under your care are provided with a collaborative, effective, and evidence-based service to facilitate their discharge from an in-patient setting to the community. You will also have responsibility for your own allocated caseload under the supervision of registered therapy staff.
Main duties of the job
* You will work with registered staff and therapy assistants to provide a rehabilitation service for a defined Stroke population in an in-patient community hospital setting.
* You will be skilled in working autonomously, under the supervision of registered therapy staff, to undertake tasks in relation to occupational therapy and physiotherapy rehabilitation within your scope of practice.
* You will support the registered practitioner in the preparation and delivery of Stroke rehabilitation including clinical work, discharge support, and administrative duties.
Working for our organisation
By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities, and in return for this, we will support you by:
* Supporting your career development and progression
* Generous maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
* Options for flexible working
* Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
* Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
* If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
* Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
* Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
* Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
* Free car parking at all trust sites
* Free flu vaccinations every year
* Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one-off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)
And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.
Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities, and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Level 2 or above qualification (e.g. NVQ III, QCF 2) or equivalent
* GCSE English and Maths grade C / level 4 or above or Functional English and Maths level 2
* Evidence of recent CPD activity
Experience
* Relevant experience of working in NHS setting within therapies / specialist area of stroke
* Knowledge of correct assessments of patients and their condition and monitors the patient’s response to intervention
* Sound knowledge of a range of clinical presentations and how to escalate concerns
* Previous experience of working in a community/Hospital setting
Skills
* Have evidence to show a good range of prior clinical experience
* Understanding of evidence-based practice
* Understanding of clinical audit and or research
Employer certification / accreditation badges
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name: Rebecca Doe
Job title: Team Lead - Stroke and Therapies Team Lead
Email address: rebecca.doe@mpft.nhs.uk
Telephone number: 07973 895865
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