Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekend working on a rota basis)
- Job ref
- 388-7304768-FC&I
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Sherborne House
- Town
- Newton Abbot
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 31/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner Intermediate Care and Community Therapy Team
NHS AfC: Band 4
Job overview
We have an exciting opportunity within our motivated and dedicated team.
You will work independently and autonomously, providing assessment, support, care, treatment and advice to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role.
You will be part of a multi-professional team undertaking practitioner role. Implement treatment and care to patients under the guidance and supervision of a registered professional. e.g. dressings, injections, monitoring etc.
Wherever possible to contribute to avoidance of hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting. Taking responsibility for the daily care and support of delegated patients.
Main duties of the job
Please see job description:
- Work independently and autonomously, providing assessment, support, care, treatment and advice to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role
- Wherever possible to contribute to avoidance of hospital admission and reduce inpatient length of stay to ensure that patients receive the appropriate care in the most appropriate setting
- Practice the principles and philosophy of individualised person-centred patient care in accordance with Trust Policy, procedures and regulatory body’s guidelines
- Work independently and autonomously, providing assessment, support, care, treatment and advice to individuals, within guidelines and protocols identified for the role
- Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner
- Take responsibility for the daily care and support of delegated patients
- Work within a multi-professional team undertaking practitioner role
- Work with colleagues from other organisations including voluntary sector and Social care
- Take responsibility for the daily care and support of delegated patients
- Keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making
Working for our organisation
You will be joining a truly multi-disciplinary team which aims to prevent hospital admissions, facilitate safe and effective discharges home and support patients in their own homes. Our Health and Wellbeing Team is an integrated professional team which includes Social Care, Community Occupational Therapy, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Community Nursing, Pharmacy, Dietetics, Support Workers and the voluntary sector. The team are proactive and have a forward-thinking core that promote a positive and a ‘can do’ attitude. The successful candidate will be dynamic and key in managing patients to remain in their own home.
Our team is based at Sherborne House and provides a community service to the residents in the Newton Abbot locality. The multi- disciplinary community team have a hard-working, flexible and can-do approach. The team are a supportive and friendly, adapting to the ever-changing demands on the service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Full Vacancy details can be found on the attached Job Description/Person Specification. Please refer to your suitability to the post in your supporting information from the role requirements or person specification.
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Person specification
Specific skills
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of health/social care IT systems
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids
- Typing / data inputting skills
Qualifications and training
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree in Health & Social Care Practice or equivalent e.g. higher apprenticeship
- Previous experience of working within a healthcare/caring environment
Desirable criteria
- Proven experience within designated clinical area
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Ability to undertake and interpret a range of patient observations as required in clinical area
- Ability to assess, plan implement and evaluate patient care
- Ability to undertake a range of procedures relevant to area of works
- Detailed knowledge and experience of professional roles within a multi-disciplinary team
- Experience of working in a care setting
- An enhanced knowledge of and evidence of continued academic and clinical development in: Palliative care, Infection control, Wound care, Catheter care, Key long-term conditions, Dementia, Falls prevention
- Knowledge and experience of manual handling techniques and use of manual handling plans
- Experience of supporting other workers
- Delivering patient focused care
Desirable criteria
- Experience of community working, preferably within Health and Social Care
- Experience of working under distanced supervision
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Natalie Madge
- Job title
- OT Clinical Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 500 4042
- Additional information
Tara Paine (Physio Clinical Lead)
0300 500 4042
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