Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago

Woodbridge, Suffolk, United Kingdom East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Full time

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Assistant Practitioner within the Woodbridge Integrated Neighbourhood Team (INT) on a permanent basis.


We are looking for a Assistant Practitioner who is passionate, committed, innovative, enthusiastic, and highly motivated to delivering high quality care within a community setting.

This role requires a working pattern of either Monday to Friday Or Tuesday - Friday Friday finishing at Weekend work will be on a rota and time off in the week given in lieu.

The Woodbridge INT is based in Melton and provides multidisciplinary care to the surrounding locality. The team is committed to holistic and patient centred care in the right place, at the right time. The team consists of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, District & Community Nurses, Assistant Practitioners, Generic Workers, and Social Workers. The team is led by an INT Manager, supported by a Care Coordinator and Administrator.


Although we expect our staff to work autonomously, we're a very supportive team and work closely together to achieve the best outcomes for our patients.

Community experience would be an advantage, but the role includes a comprehensive trust induction followed by a local team induction.

We offer a variety of training to consolidate and maintain your clinical skills.

To manage a defined caseload of patients in the community under the guidance of registered Therapy clinicians.
To respond, with support from a registered therapist, to patients at risk of admission to hospital within 2 hours to support Urgent Community Response
To provide specific skilled support to the registered clinicians in providing technical therapy interventions to patients in a variety of settings

To use an evidence-based, person-centred approach in the planning, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of agreed interventions following guidelines and protocols to promote the functional fitness of patients in a way that is consistent with their abilities, preferences and cultural beliefs.

To be able to work flexibly over a 7/7 service rota
To work as a key member of the multi-disciplinary team carrying forward treatment plans and progressing rehabilitation goals for patients to enhance recovery
To communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients using skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, negotiation and empathy. There may be barriers to understanding such as hearing loss, speech difficulty, anxiety, fear and depression


We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex.

Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.


Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts.

Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone.

Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.


We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic.

This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.


If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

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