Assistant Practitioner

Responsibilities

• Works within the multidisciplinary team in a primary care setting including clients' homes, residential homes and clinic, providing support for a variety of therapeutic and clinical interventions based on the team skill mix.
• Participate in the assessment, planning, implementation and individualised therapeutic interventions under the guidance of the multidisciplinary team.
• To identify and provide appropriate assistive equipment for clients to facilitate safety in their chosen environment.
• To work autonomously and undertake lone working in the community; to work a variety of shift patterns which include weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis.
• To travel across the county as service demands require.
• Responsible for assessing, planning and implementing therapeutic interventions.
• To assess, demonstrate and provide appropriate, adaptive equipment to meet specific client needs and to facilitate safely in the chosen environment.
• To form professional relationships with clients, family and carers and communicate condition related information to them in a way that respects their views, autonomy and culture.
• To involve clients, family and carers in the planning of care/rehabilitation programs and encourage self-management where appropriate.
• To promote self-management of health related conditions.
• To have an enhanced level of knowledge of support services within the community.
• To communicate effectively with all members of the Integrated Community Services team.
• To support and promote wider team working.
• To provide written reports and verbal feedback to the team regarding clients' performance/progress in areas of self-maintenance, productivity and leisure.
• To act as named person for the client to contact within the department and to feedback relevant issues to senior staff.
• To maintain professional, responsible and appropriate relationships with managers, colleagues, clients, their family/friends and other services.
• To support other departments and localities within the Therapy Services at the request of management as demand requires.

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are:
We Care, We Respect, We Are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.