Job Introduction
Are you passionate about making a real difference in the lives of adults with neurological conditions, including stroke survivors? Do you want to be a part of a dedicated team that delivers exceptional care and support to patients and their families in the comfort of their own homes? If so, we have a fantastic opportunity for you!
About Us: At the Community Neuro and Stroke Service, we provide specialized, multidisciplinary care to adults over the age of 18 who are living with neurological conditions, such as stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease, and Parkinson's Disease. We take pride in offering compassionate care that enhances the quality of life for our patients.
Your Role: As an Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner, you will be a crucial member of our team, working under the guidance of Occupational Therapists to deliver exceptional care and rehabilitation services.
This is a permanent part time position (30 hours a week).
If you would like to contact the team for further information you can get in touch with Kathy Love on 01225 831544 or katherine.love@hcrgcaregroup.com
Main Responsibility
Your responsibilities will include:
Clinical Excellence:
- Deliver and support the assessment and management of patients care and rehab needs with indirect supervision.
- Provide personal care using a rehabilitation approach, fostering independence in patients.
- Assess for and provide equipment for patients.
- Support the changing needs of patients with progressive neurological conditions, including towards the end of life.
- Prioritize and manage your own patient caseload and schedule.
- Participate in quality audits and risk assessment.
- Report incidents and seek continuous improvement.
Service Improvement:
- Contribute to service development initiatives.
- Adapt your practice in line with team decisions.
- Help create local guidelines, protocols, and standards.
Health, Safety, and Security:
- Collaborate on formal risk assessments with the lead clinician.
- Maintain infection control and safe work environments.
- Comply with lone working and equipment use policies.
Personal and Professional Development:
- Take responsibility for your ongoing learning and performance.
- Participate in supervision and annual appraisal.
- Share knowledge gained through training, courses, and shadowing.
- Embrace feedback as a learning opportunity.
- Share insights and research findings with colleagues.
For a full list of responsibilities please see the attached job description
The Ideal Candidate
You will have:
- Demonstrate an ability and willingness to participate in the competency training of specific knowledge and skills needed for the job.
- Experience of working within a rehabilitation setting
- Ability to carry out detailed observations & functional assessments with service users.
- Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
- Access to a car to enable travel to service users homes including delivery of equipment.
- Hold an Assistant Practitioner diploma
- Experience in community services supporting patients in their homes
Why Join Us?
- Make a meaningful impact on patients' lives.
- Collaborate with a passionate, supportive team.
- Continuous learning and development opportunities.
- Competitive salary and benefits package.
- Contribute to service improvements and innovations.
Package Description
If you're a compassionate, dedicated individual with a commitment to delivering high-quality care, we want to hear from you!
Join our team and help us make a positive difference in the lives of those we serve.
Join us in providing exceptional care and support to those who need it most. Together, we can make a real difference in the world of neurological rehabilitation!
You will feel valued as a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner and receive:
- £25,200 annual salary and access to our Group Pension
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free and plentiful on site-parking
- 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 the 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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