Job Introduction
We are looking for an Assistant Practitioner to join our team as part of the Community Adult Bladder and Bowel service. The role involves working alongside a team of specialist registered nurses and physiotherapists within the service. We are a small, friendly and supportive team that provide specialist assessment, advice, treatment, and support to patients over the age of 18 that have been referred to the Bladder and Bowel service.
This is a permanent part-time role where you will work 35 hours per week. These are daytime hours and will be worked across Monday to Friday. We may be able to offer some flexibility of working pattern but, this will need to fit in with the needs of the service. Currently there is no requirement to work weekends or bank holidays but, this may change as the service develops.
This brand-new role is based at St Martin’s Hospital, Bath. However, we serve patients across the entire area of Bath and North-East Somerset, so willingness to travel across this whole area will be required. Working as an Assistant Practitioner, you will predominantly be visiting patients in their own home or care homes to complete assessments, offer advice, treatment and support as well as potentially some clinic and administrative support work.
We also have the option to support the right candidate in obtaining an apprenticeship in either the Nursing Associate course or the Assistant Practitioner apprenticeship. We have great pathway options if you are looking for a role where we can offer you the chance to further your professional development.
Main Responsibility
- Undertake, record and follow guidelines for care and/or clinical duties/tasks for which you have received the appropriate training, acting within the limits of your own competence.
- Assess, plan and promote an excellent standard of patient bladder and bowel health irrespective of the patient’s age, ethnicity, gender, religion, disability or sexuality.
- Encourage patients to take ownership of their bladder and/or bowel problem and support them to improve symptoms via patient education and engagement with various treatment, self-help and lifestyle methods.
- Observe, report and act on any changes using judgement and ability to know when action is required
- Keep a high standard of prompt and accurate patient records using IT systems
- Manage daily patient caseload during your shift within agreed boundaries
The Ideal Candidate
We are looking for someone who has a genuine passion and enthusiasm in specialist adult Bladder and Bowel care and wants to take the next step in their career.
This is a great opportunity for an experienced Band 3 or Band 4 looking for a new role where you will be supported with developing your knowledge and skills within this speciality.
The ideal candidate has experience in a Health and Social care environment and has good interpersonal, organisational and communication skills. We would like someone who has experience working within a primary care or community setting or who has worked in specialist bladder and bowel care, however this is not essential and we would encourage anyone who meets the essential criteria, with an authentic interest in this specialism, to apply.
Due to the nature of this role, it is essential that you have a full UK Driving licence, insured for business purposes and full access to a vehicle.
Package Description
As an Assistant Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued team at St. Martin's Hospital, Bath.
You will feel valued as an Assistant Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £24,000 - £26500 (pro-rated to hours worked) with access to our 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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