Assistant Practitioner

3 weeks ago


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

We are recruiting an enthusiastic, forward thinking team player to join our dynamic Community Rehabilitation service.

We are looking for an Assistant Practitioner who is motivated to achieve their full potential. It is preferable that you have experience of working in a community or therapy setting although we would welcome applicants with all levels of experience.

It is expected that you will have excellent communication skills, enjoy working with a variety of service users of different age groups, and have good self-management skills. You need to have a flexible approach and possess and have the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.

The Community Rehabilitation Team is busy and continues to give a high level of service to the patients within North East Essex. We have a high degree of diversity and specialism within our team. We offer a well-established supervision and appraisal structure and we have a firm commitment to CPD, evidence based practice, undergraduate and postgraduate education.

It is essential that you are a car driver as you will be expected to travel across the North East Essex area.

The core hours of work are Monday-Friday 9-5, with occasional weekend working.

Applications are welcome from all sectors of the Community.

You will be required to undertake various duties/tasks to support the delivery of person cantered care in the community. Enabling individuals to remain at home safely, avoid unnecessary admissions to hospital, and improve their health and independence.

You will work in collaboration with registered therapists as well as support staff and administrators.

Your core duty will be to support exercise programmes and the progression of mobility and functional activities in patient’s homes or care settings. Other duties will include assisting in exercise classes, issuing and delivering equipment, and providing assistance with complex, intensive rehabilitation tasks.

One of the largest Trust’s in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of over 11,000 amazing colleagues providing care to 800,000 residents.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health & Wellbeing programme offer a range of services including mental health support. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.

To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen 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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