Urgent Community Response Therapy Community

1 week ago

Norwich, Norfolk, United Kingdom Norfolk Community Health and Care NHS Trust Full time
The Norwich Urgent Community Response Therapy Team is recruiting

Have you a passion for therapy and supporting people to remain in their own homes and achieve their optimum functional ability? Do you have excellent interpersonal and want to develop clinical skills? Are you flexible, approachable and a team player?


An exciting opportunity has arisen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Norwich Place Urgent Community Response Therapy Team.

We are looking for individuals to join us in providing high quality therapy services within the team as a Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner.

The role is to provide support to the therapy team covering admission avoidance, urgent therapy referrals, discharge to assess and NEAT services and will involve working across a 7 day week.

In the community you will assess a variety of patients with physical needs and provide a holistic approach to maintaining their independence in their own homes

Ideally you will be familiar with these clinical databases; Systmone, mediquip, LAS.


As a Community Assistant Practitioner it is essential that you can prioritise your own workload, possess effective communication skills, work as part of a team, and use own initiative.


If you thrive on variety in the working day, enjoy multi-tasking and also being part of a supportive team then this role is for you.

The Norwich Urgent Community Response Team is currently operational during the following hours Monday to Sunday

As part of the Urgent Community Response Team, you will be required to:

  • Contribute to the delivery of therapy care pathways for patients with long term conditions, palliative care and rehabilitation needs for example, to achieve quality of life and independence where possible.
  • Work within the Urgent Community Response Therapy Team to prevent unnecessary admission to hospital.
  • Work within the Urgent Community Response Therapy Team to support early discharge from hospital.
  • Work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutory agencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.
Behaviour Framework -Applicants are advised to familiarise themselves with the Behaviour Framework reflecting NCH&C's Brand Values.


Safeguarding -NCH&C are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

All staff have a responsibility to protect vulnerable patients and clients from harm in accordance with Trust Policy.

Clinical Skills

Assess patients with straight forward therapy requirements based on predetermined department protocols.

  • Prepare for, carry out and monitor assessments and treatments in specified clinical areas, and discharge in line with predetermined department protocols.
  • Observe patients carrying out daily activites in their own homes as well as giving advice on equipment or methods they may use to make these tasks
easier.

  • Assist the patient with personal care as appropriate.
  • Modify and progress intervention / treatment using own clinical reasoning, notifying a qualified practitioner accordingly.
  • Monitor patients and promptly alert a qualified practitioner when there are unexpected changes.
  • Demonstrate problem solving, and contribute to the solution, working with colleagues.
  • Make basic judgements on patients' response to prescribed treatment, and report findings to a qualified practitioner.
  • Plan and prioritise own visits to delegated patients, and ensure these are
documented on SystmOne.

  • Ensure that SystmOne inputting is completed on a daily basis.
  • Where there are barriers to understanding, such as hearing impairment, mental capacity impairment and other difficulties in comprehension, explanations require adjustments in order to gain understanding, consent and concordance.
  • Establish and maintain therapeutic relationships with patients and carers, incorporating motivation, encouragement and confidence building to enable patients to engage in their treatment/care/rehabilitation and management plan.
  • Liaise with the wider Urgent Community Response (UCR) Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) and communicate with GPs, Social Services, inpatient teams, other allied health care professionals and the voluntary sector as required to ensure identified needs are met and care co-ordinated appropriately.

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