Community Associate Therapy Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 3
Main area Therapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours
* Full time
* Flexible working
* Compressed hours
37.5 hours per week (will include weekends and Bank Holidays and a shift pattern that includes 8am starts and 8pm finishes) Job ref 319-6948313IO
Site CBX Business Centre Town Wallsend Salary £24,071 - £25,674 pro rata, per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/03/2025 23:59
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
* Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
* Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
* A range of flexible working opportunities
* Generous annual leave and pension scheme
* Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
* Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
* On-site nursery places via salary sacrifice
* Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
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Job overview
This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic developing team and be at the cutting edge of delivering acute care to patients in their own home.
The Community Response Service team facilitates early discharges from hospital, who otherwise would have stayed in hospital due to therapy needs, and provide rehab for up to 2 weeks to meet the short-term goals for them to be able to remain at home. They work with the virtual ward teams and other teams within Community Response Service to provide assessments to those who are at risk of hospital admission.
You will be part of a large multidisciplinary team and have opportunities to work individually and with Physiotherapists, Nurse Practitioners, Occupational Therapists, Pharmacists and other Associate Therapy Practitioners.
This post falls within the provisions of Agenda for Change Annex 20 - Development of Professional Roles, whereby upon completion of an agreed set of competencies you may move onto the next pay band without the need for an application for a post at a higher level.
Main duties of the job
The successful applicant will begin as an Occupational Therapy Technical Instructor and will work with the therapists within the team to achieve the competencies required to progress to the Band 4 role, within an expected 6-9 month period.
* To work within the Homesafe and Care Point Teams to support the Discharge & Intermediate Care Services across Northumberland and North Tyneside.
* To work under the direct and indirect supervision of a qualified member of staff to implement treatment programmes for individual patients.
* To carry out basic assessment and treatment of non-complex patients as delegated by the registered therapists or nursing staff within the team.
* To assist registered therapists or nursing staff within the team in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.
* To undertake specific skilled support work to aid the therapy teams in the efficient delivery of rehabilitation to specialty area within the framework of clinical governance.
* To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust.
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* To manage a patient caseload referred by the registered therapists or nursing staff within the team according to specific criteria.
* To treat patients according to set protocols, monitoring patient progress, modifying and progressing patient programs as required, with referral back to MDT as/when appropriate.
* To undertake complex/non-complex walking aid assessments.
* Identify any changes in patient’s conditions and be aware of the need to summon assistance when appropriate.
* To assist colleagues in facilitating a multi-disciplinary discharge planning process.
* To demonstrate time management skills by day-to-day planning, organising, and completing all clinical and administrative duties including statistical record keeping.
* To be responsible for administrative duties as required and delegated, including the extraction of relevant information from patients’ medical records for use within patients’ records.
* To arrange patient appointments & ambulance bookings as appropriate.
* To participate and support a 7-day service covering hours of 8-8.
* To participate in the in-service training programmes and continuing professional development activities as deemed appropriate by the team lead.
Person specification
Qualifications
* NVQ level 3 in Health and Social Care or above/equivalent or the willingness to complete within 12 months of employment or equivalent experience/and or qualifications
* Education to GCSE or equivalent
We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under-represented in our workforce as well as other under-represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.
If you require any reasonable adjustments to attend interview please make the recruitment team aware as soon as possible by calling our HR Recruitment Team on 0191 203 1415 option 2.
Please note that it is a requirement of this Trust that all successful applicants pay for their own DBS certification if a DBS check is required for the post. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first monthly pay.
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