Are you a skilled associate practitioner with excellent interpersonal skills and sound clinical assessment skills?
Do you have the confidence to work alone, putting the patient at the heart of what you do; and get involved within a multi-disciplinary team?
Are you enthusiastic, have excellent communication skills and the ability to work flexibly to provide high quality holistic care?
If you answered yes, we’ve got the perfect role for you!
This is an opportunity for an experienced associate practitioner (AP) with a varied physical rehabilitation background, to join this well-established multi-disciplinary team. This team provides short-term (around six weeks) intermediate care in a patient's own home, with the focus on returning patients to their maximum potential of independence.
Main Responsibilities:
1. To be an active member of the clinical team, providing and assisting team members to deliver rehabilitation intervention to patients referred to the team.
2. To carry out rehabilitation activities, including day-to-day assessment, administering/ordering of mobility aids and equipment, and the supervision/instruction of patient’s activities relating to their treatment programme.
3. To work primarily with Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists.
4. To treat patients according to protocol, assessing patient progress and, within set parameters, set by the Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist, make relevant alterations to existing treatment or move a patient’s treatment onto a different stage.
5. Support admin staff.
Main Aims of the Role:
To work as a highly skilled practitioner without the direct supervision or presence of a professionally qualified member of the team.
This is your chance to join a progressive and innovative service in a social enterprise that is patient and staff focused - you’ll even have the opportunity to become an MCH shareholder.
We encourage staff to get involved in exploring new ways of working and service development.
We’ll provide well established, in-service training, one to one supervision, and appraisals with regular support.
You’ll be able to develop your skills in a friendly and supportive team.
Minimum Requirements:
1. Good general education (to GCSE or equivalent) NVQ 3 or equivalent.
2. Substantial experience working as an assistant with people who have had a sudden change in health and social care needs or with those who have a long-term condition.
3. Experience of taking and leading group work.
4. Experience of documenting and evidence learning.
5. Good knowledge of commonly encountered orthopaedic, neurological and musculo-skeletal conditions.
6. Understanding of basic principles of holistic health and social care assessment being competent in functional assessment.
7. Able to demonstrate a holistic approach to patient management.
8. Ability to work as part of a team.
9. Awareness of limitations, personal strengths and areas of development.
10. Flexible, reliable and organised.
11. Good written and verbal communication skills and IT skills.
12. Ability to work on own initiative and to manage own caseload.
13. Ability to travel to dispersed sites in the community in a timely manner.
Responsibilities for Patient Care:
1. To maintain patient’s dignity, privacy and confidentiality at all times.
2. To assess functional needs of patients as delegated by therapists.
3. To review patients individually without direct supervision or presence of a therapist and manage own patient caseload, liaising with relevant team member of staff.
4. To work autonomously as well as together with the main team.
Responsibilities for Policy and Service Development Implementation:
1. To adhere to the organisation’s policies in relation to health and safety.
2. To identify any problems that may interfere with the smooth running of the team.
Responsibilities for Human Resources:
1. To undertake relevant CPD activities to maintain and develop skills and abilities.
2. To actively participate in the organisation’s appraisal system identifying personal development needs and plans.
Freedom to Act:
1. To assist the therapists in the facilitation and co-ordination of patients on the discharge pathway.
2. The ability to plan and organise own workload without direct supervision.
Full JD is attached.
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