Job Introduction
If you love working in a Community setting we have a great new opportunity for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join Chippenham Community Team. This post could also be a developmental opportunity for you to undertake an Apprenticeship to complete a Health and Social Care Foundation Degree. The post will be working alongside our Therapy team.
We are based in Chippenham Community Hospital and provide patient care between 07.00 – 22.00 hours with shift patterns including some weekends and late shifts although these can be flexible. Our core working hours are 8.00- 18.00.
This role is very rewarding and will include working with our therapy team to provide interventions in patients’ homes. As an Assistant Practitioner you will be focused on supporting the therapy team with a caseload of patients and home or other care environments. The role is varied and interesting as we provide support to many patients with complex needs and provide a timely response to unplanned referrals. You will also be responsible for supporting and assessing patients who are at risk of falls, providing and reviewing equipment and home exercise programmes. Our caseload is constantly changing and linked to our capacity and patient need. We also work closely with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team, Nurses, Acute Hospitals, Primary and Social Care and attend regular MDTs.
Applicants will need experience with supporting older adults and alongside excellent IT, communication and organisational skills. We are looking for someone who is enthusiastic, motivated and who can work flexibly.
We are proactive in developing community specific training and can offer a supportive and friendly environment in which to learn new skills. We have a range of training and development opportunities, including a comprehensive induction program.
If you are interested please come for an informal visit to meet our team. To arrange this or for further information please contact;
Sally Hanham Team Leader on 07825 682874 sally.hanham@nhs.net or Dawn Aston Clinical Lead on 01249 456548.
Main Responsibility
- To plan and implement treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines.
- To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- Deliver treatment/care within a community setting as specified in a written care plan, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
- To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with Policy, procedures and regulatory body’s guidelines
- Responsibility for the day to day care of patients including monitoring.
- Administration of medication under the authorisation of the qualified practitioner.
- To undertake specific tasks as delegated.
- To have a good knowledge of infection control, to reduce risk of health care acquired infections.
- To enable patients to reach their optimum level of independence.
- To meet a range of patient and carer needs in order to prevent hospital admission or reduce length of stay. This may include clinical tasks relating to physiological function, mental function or personal and domestic activities of daily living.
- To ensure the needs and wishes of the individual are documented.
- To obtain consent for any treatment undertaken
- To work within a multi-professional team undertaking practitioner role.
- To assist registered and junior staff, referring to registered staff when necessary.
- Support terminally ill patients and their carers/relatives.
- To communicate with individuals about routine and daily activities, this may include overcoming difficulties (e.g. hearing/language).
The Ideal Candidate
- 5 GCSE / GCE or equivalent experience
- NVQ Level 3 in health care
- Foundation Degree – or willingness to achieve within specified time frame.
- Food Hygiene certificate (or willingness to undertake)
- Experience of supporting other workers
You will have a full UK driving license with access to a car for work purposes.
Package Description
As a Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at Chippenham Community Hospital.
You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £25,200 with group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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