Trainee Assistant Practitioner

4 weeks ago


Burnley, United Kingdom East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust Full time

We have an opportunity to recruit a full time Trainee Assistant Practitioner to join our Integrated Neuro Rehabilitation Therapy Team. The position gives you the opportunity to complete a Foundation Degree in Health and social Care (Assistant Practitioner) via an apprenticeship route. On successful completion of the 2 year course you will move from a band 3 into a band 4 position.

You will be working alongside the inpatient and community neuro rehabilitation team at Rakehead Rehabilitation Unit, developing your therapeutic assessment/ intervention skills supporting Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Speech and Language Therapists treating a wide range of patients presenting with a variety of neurological difficulties. As part of the therapy team you may be required to work flexibly across the Integrated Neurological Pathway therefore a car driver is essential with access to a car for work purposes for community visits.

The apprenticeship is a 2 year academic programme including work based learning in partnership with UCLAN.

Qualified Assistant Practitioners would be encouraged to apply.

As an Assistant Practitioner/ Trainee Assistant Practitioner you will work as a member of the team assisting in the delivery of specialist therapy across Pennine Lancashire and Rakehead Rehabilitation Centre supporting qualified therapists in assessing and treating patients with neurological conditions.

You will be required to undertake specialist support work from referrals screened by a member of the team. This may include gathering information for assessments, implementing treatment programmes, and making recommendations for equipment and minor adaptations.

You will use technical and creative skills in the provision of therapeutic activities for individual patients and will be responsible for evaluating and amending treatment programmes with guidance from the therapist. As an AP you will take responsibility for your own caseload supported by a qualified therapist. The post holder will be responsible for delivering defined therapy input without direct supervision; but will have immediate access to a therapist for advice and direction as required.

The work will take place in a variety of settings including inpatients, care homes and patient’s own homes. The post holder may work as a lone worker in the community therefore will need to follow the lone worker policy.

Established in 2003 East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust (ELHT) is a large integrated health care organisation providing high quality acute secondary healthcare for the people of East Lancashire and Blackburn with Darwen.

Our vision is to be widely recognised for providing safe, personal and effective care. We currently provide high quality services and treat over 700,000 patients a year from the most serious of emergencies to planned operations and procedures. We employ over 8,000 staff, many of whom are internationally renowned and have won awards for their work and achievements.

As part of the inpatient rehabilitation team you will be based at Rakehead Rehabilitation Centre; a purpose built unit, within Burnley General Hospital Site. Our integrated community neuro rehabilitation team working across Pennine Lancashire are also based in the unit. Our integrated therapies team has a strong link with UCLAN employing an AHP Professor in neurorehabilitation and stroke as such we are actively involved in a variety of research projects.

We have a robust supervision and annual appraisal structure along with offering in house training to support the clinical development of our staff. We always aim to provide high standard, quality care to all our patients.

Organise and deliver a complete episode of therapy intervention as screened and delegated by a qualified therapist and as defined by currently agreed neurological rehabilitation pathways.

You will use technical and therapeutic skills to promote patient independence.

As part of the MDT you will also support the team in the delivery of other therapy sessions such as group work or virtual therapy sessions.

You will also be required to support with general administrative procedures such as collecting patient information, completing referrals onto other services, ordering equipment and other tasks delegated by therapists within the team.

You will formulate appropriate treatment goals with the patient and support in the delivery of therapy intervention working towards these specific goals.

For further details on the position please refer to the attached job description.



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