Urgent Community Response Therapy Community Assistant Practitioner

The West Urgent Community Response Therapy Team is recruiting

Have you a passion for therapy and supporting people to remain in their own homes and achieve their optimum functional ability? Do you have excellent interpersonal and want to develop clinical skills? Are you flexible, approachable and a team player?

An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our West Place Urgent Community Response Therapy Team. We are looking for individuals to join us in providing high quality therapy services within the team as a Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner. The role is to provide support to the therapy team covering admission avoidance, urgent therapy referrals, discharge to assess and Home First Hub services and will involve working across a 7-day week.

In the community you will assess a variety of patients with physical needs and provide a holistic approach to maintaining their independence in their own homes

Ideally you will be familiar with these clinical databases; SystmOne, and mediquip.

As a Community Assistant Practitioner, it is essential that you can prioritise your own workload, possess effective communication skills, work as part of a team, and use own initiative.

If you thrive on variety in the working day, enjoy multi–tasking and also being part of a supportive team then this role is for you.

The West Urgent Community Response Team is currently operational during the following hours Monday to Sunday 08.00 – 20:00

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required to:

• Contribute to the delivery of therapy care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
• Work within the Urgent Community Response Therapy Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
• Work within the Urgent Community Response Therapy Team to support early discharge from hospital.
• Work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.

Supervision will be provided by Band 6 Occupational Therapist or Band 7 Clinical Lead Physiotherapist. We offer the opportunity to work in an experienced and supportive team with opportunities for on-going professional development.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an 'Outstanding' rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

Find out more about working for our organisation here: https://online.flippingbook.com/view/226719057/

Clinical Skills

Assess patients with straight forward therapy requirements based on predetermined department protocols.
2. Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
3. Work generically applying competency based treatment techniques/care to patients with specific conditions under the supervision of a qualified practitioner, following a prescribed treatment pathway.
4. Observe patients carrying out daily activites in their own homes as well as giving advice on equipment or methods they may use to make these tasks
easier.
5. Assist the patient with personal care as appropriate.
6. Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
7. Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
8. Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
9. Make basic judgements on patients’ response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
10.Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are
documented on SystmOne.
11.Ensure that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
12.Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
13.Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, incorporating motivation, encouragement and confidence building to enable patients to engage in their treatment/care/rehabilitation and management plan.
14.Liaise with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) and communicate with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector as required to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.