Assistant Practitoner

Overview:
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and strives to become an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleague's lived experiences.

Locala recognises the value that inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities.

**If you are CARING and AMBITIOUS - then join Locala and BE PART OF IT.**

**Responsibilities**:
The Integrated Transfer of Care (ITOC) Team is a dynamic & multi-skilled team consisting of nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, and Assistant Practitioners. We also work in alignment with social services and private sector nursing & residential homes.

Our purpose is to support a safe and timely hospital discharge of people who are medically fit, and no longer need hospital care, to a place more suitable to the person’s needs. Assessments and care provision can then be tailored to support people to regain strengths & skills so that they can live as independently as possible. We also aim to avoid admission for patients in A&E and Frailty departments who require intervention to allow them to be discharged home.

The main priority of the team is to consider home first with ongoing community interventions, if required.

The ITOC team work in partnership with individuals & families to identify their own needs and short term goals, recognising that person-centred care planning and intervention is key to the person accomplishing the outcomes they want to achieve.

We also work closely with other services as part of the ‘Urgent Care System’; Key Stakeholders, Urgent Care Response, HATs, and Social Services. There are two teams within the service: The Hospital Discharge Team identify people who have onward care needs and then make necessary arrangements for discharge to one of the two pathways within the D2A service; Home First and Bedded Pathway.

There will be opportunities to broaden your scope of practice through supporting across the wider service of Unplanned and Intermediate Care.

**Job Description**:
Person Specification

**For more information please contact**:
Elkie Moffatt (Team Leader for Unplanned Care)

0330 165 9839

Deon Bryan (Complex Discharge Co-Ordinator)

07946609074

**Closing date: Monday 26th June 2023 by midnight