Community Associate Therapy Practitioner

4 months ago


Wallsend, United Kingdom Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Full time

This is a fantastic and exciting opportunity to join a dynamic developing team and be at the cutting edge of delivering acute care to patients in their own home.

The CRS teams provide care to patients in their own home who are at risk of hospital admission and support early discharge for patients would otherwise have stayed in hospital. You will be part of a large team and have opportunities to work individually and with Physiotherapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists and Pharmacists.

To work within the Home Safe and Care Point Teams to supporting the Discharge & Intermediate Care Services across Northumberland and North Tyneside.

To work under the direct and indirect supervision of a qualified member of staff to implement treatment programmes for individual patients.

To carry out basic assessment and treatment of non-complex patients as delegated by the OT/PT/DN’s.

To assist OT/PT/DNs in the treatment of their patients, working to defined protocols and treatment plans.

To undertake specific skilled support work to aid the Rehab team in the efficient delivery of Rehabilitation to specialty area within the framework of clinical governance.

To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries.

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres. We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
- To manage a patient caseload referred by the OT/PT/DN according to specific criteria.
- To treat patients according to set protocols, monitoring patient progress, modifying and progressing patient programs as required, with referral back to MDT as/when appropriate.
- Implements and modify and upgrade treatment programmes and work independently within defined parameters.
- To undertake complex/non complex walking aid assessments.
- Identify any changes in patient’s conditions and be aware of the need to summon assistance when appropriate.
- To assist colleagues in facilitating a multi-disciplinary discharge planning process.
- To demonstrate time management skills by day to day planning, organising, and completing all clinical and administrative duties including statistical record keeping.
- To be responsible for administrative duties as required and delegated, including the extraction of relevant information from patients’ medical records for use within patients’ records.
- Recording patient treatment in an accurate and timely manner in accordance with trust standards.
- To work to the standards of individual clinical areas and to ensure the background knowledge is acquired through independent learning and collaboration with senior staff.
- To arrange patient appointments & ambulance bookings as appropriate.
- To participate and support a 7day service covering hours of 8-8.
- Assembles and dismantles equipment loaned out to clients.
- To participate in the in-service training programmes and continuing professional development activities as deemed appropriate by the superintendent.

To be flexible to the needs of service delivery and provide care across Northumberland and North Tyneside.



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