Job summary
- Main area
- ICRAS Urgent Therapy Team - Community Division
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent: Rota will include shifts and weekend working.
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (5 x 7.5 shifts over 7 days)
- Job ref
- 350-CC7493047
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- ICRAS Urgent Care Central and South Liverpool
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 12/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) within Central and South Liverpool 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 Central and South Liverpool. If you’re motivated, with therapy experience, a passion to be part 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.
Please note, this vacancy may close early if we receive a sufficient number of applications. Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver therapeutic interventions to promote patients well being and functional independence.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
Be accountable for own clinical practice and personal development.
Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
Lead on health promotion activities as required.
Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
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.
Participate in individual clinical supervision and appraisal.
Support the delivery/completion of audits within the team.
Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
Must have access to a car to access community.
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 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
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work based experience.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
- 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
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
Other
Essential criteria
- Ability to travel, for work purposes
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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
- Tania Sparks / Bronagh Jones
- Job title
- Therapy Co-ordinator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 247 6740
- Additional information
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