Main area: Rapid Response Therapies - Front door service
Grade: NHS AfC: Band 4
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours per week (Part time, Flexible working)
Job ref: 381-CT-6992082
Site: SWB NHS Trust
Town: West Bromwich
Salary: £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 19/03/2025 23:59
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
1. People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff.
2. Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do.
3. Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives.
We run services from Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, Sandwell Health Campus, City Health Campus, Rowley Regis Community Hospital, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, The Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres, and at home.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
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 work as part of the cohesive multiprofessional team within our emergency department (ED), acute medical units (AMU), and the frailty assessment unit (FAU), seeing a wide range of clinical presentations. You will support 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
* 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.
Main duties of the job
Assess the rehabilitation needs of individual patients presenting with diverse and complex problems using enhanced knowledge, skills & experience and 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.
Working for our organisation
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 is 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:
1. Our People: to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
2. Our Patients: to be good or outstanding in everything we do
3. Our Population: to work seamlessly with our partners to improve lives
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails.
Ongoing professional and personal development could be available through an apprenticeship route.
Person specification
Experience
* Experience working as a Band 3 Assistant - therapy or nursing
* Experience working in acute care
* Working as part of a team
* Provision of aids & equipment for people with a disability
Qualifications
* NVQ Level 3 or equivalent level study
* Portfolio of learning Foundation degree or equivalent
As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region, we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the onboarding process.
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: Dave Fernandes
Job title: Service Lead - Rapid Response Therapy Team
Email address: dave.fernandes1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07812707726
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