Main area ICRAS Urgent Therapy Team - Community Division Grade Band 4 Contract Permanent: Rota will include shifts and weekend working. Hours Part time - 37.5 hours per week (5 x 7.5 shifts over 7 days) Job ref 350-CC6668850-B
Site ICRAS Urgent Care, Southport & Formby Town Southport Salary £26,530 - £29,114 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 17/02/2025 23:59
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Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) within Southport & Formby is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support hospital admission avoidance and early hospital discharges from a care transfer hub perspective.
We’re looking for therapy assistants to join our multidisciplinary teams across Southport & Formby. If you’re motivated, with therapy experience, a passion to be part of this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
The role can involve working across ICRAS supporting our rehabilitation hubs, care transfer hub, and community, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career.
If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
We’re a very supportive team with advanced clinical practitioners, senior nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy, and health practitioner assistants.
Main duties of the job
1. Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver therapeutic interventions to promote patients' well-being and functional independence.
2. Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
3. Be accountable for own clinical practice and personal development.
4. Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
5. Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
6. Lead on health promotion activities as required.
7. Undertake clinical tasks, following patient-specific direction.
8. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background, and preferred ways of communicating.
9. Participate in individual clinical supervision and appraisal.
10. Support the delivery/completion of audits within the team.
11. Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales, and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction, and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable, and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
1. Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
2. Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
3. Be accountable for own clinical practice.
4. Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
5. Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
6. Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
7. Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
8. Support clinical staff in managing long-term conditions.
9. Organise and facilitate groups and/or individuals to develop self-care skills.
10. Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
11. Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers, and colleagues.
12. Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve their own health and lifestyle.
13. Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
14. Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
15. Lead on health promotion activities as required.
16. Undertake clinical tasks, following patient-specific direction.
17. Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background, and preferred ways of communicating.
18. Provide leadership, mentorship, and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
19. Participate in individual clinical supervision.
20. Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
21. Produce accurate, contemporaneous, and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
22. Provide information as requested.
23. Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
24. Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
25. Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
26. Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
27. The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
28. The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
* Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience.
Experience
* Assessing, planning, and implementing individualised programmes of care.
* Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health.
* Experience of previous work in health care.
* Clinical Governance and Risk Management.
* Actively involved in professional development.
* Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies.
* Knowledge of developing self-care skills in patients/clients.
Skills
* Excellent communication, organisational, and interpersonal skills.
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change-oriented
Other
* Ability to travel for work purposes.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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 Greg Kulak Job title ICRAS Therapy Team Lead Email address grzegorz.kulak@merseycare.nhs.uk Telephone number 01704387262 Additional information
Please email Greg to make an appointment for an informal chat.
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