Therapy Assistant Practitioner

5 months ago


Margate, United Kingdom East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Band 4 Assistant Practitioners work closely with people who use our Services, their families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services. Band 4 Assistant Practitioners are expected to be kind and responsive but professional and informative and contribute to the quality of the services we provide by:

- keeping the people who are using our services as safe as possible by recognising the limits of the Assistant Practitioner role and working closely with the registered clinician
- contributing to the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures when implementing treatment / management plans
- ensuring the people using our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with people when contributing to the implementation and evaluation of treatment plans

We believe that the best health care is delivered by multi-disciplinary teams working well together and in partnership with other teams and services to provide seamless care. Band 4 Assistant Practitioners contribute to the team achieving its objectives by working closely with and drawing support from the registered clinician and other health care professionals.

Assistant practitioners work within the multidisciplinary team. They are delegated work from the Occupational Therapist and carry their own caseload of patients.

They are responsible for completing all necessary assessments to establish how a person can manage all activities of daily living prior to being discharged home.

The assistant practitioner is responsible for accurate and timely note keeping, keeping up to date with mandatory training, communication with members of the MDT, patients and family members, referring patients onto voluntary services and contributing to the service development.

Today, the team at East Kent Hospitals will care for more than 2,000 people. Most of these people and their loved ones will be at a significant moment in their lives - an emergency situation, a diagnosis, a new life, a last chance to say goodbye, or a new chance to learn or regain skills.

We’re one of the biggest acute trusts in England with five hospitals providing a wide range of high quality services and opportunities to develop. The William Harvey Hospital in Ashford has the full range of district general hospital services, as well as regional specialities, including the country’s best performing trauma unit. The Queen Elizabeth, The Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, also provides district general hospital services, while Kent & Canterbury Hospital in Canterbury is a specialist services hub which provides adult medical care, inpatient renal, urology and vascular services and robotic surgery.

We have high ambitions for our Trust, the patients it serves and the people who work here. We prize involving all our staff in what we do, and together been on a fantastic improvement journey which has led to widespread improvements to our services and praise from the CQC for our caring staff. We are proud of what we have achieved to date and are excited about what’s to come.

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