Assistant Practitioner

Overview:
Locala Health and Wellbeing embraces diversity and inclusion and encourages applicants from people from all backgrounds with our ambition to have a workforce that represents the wider communities we live and work within, which you can support us to achieve.

We are an organisation that celebrates and values the individuality of our colleagues lived experiences and can adapt accordingly, recognising the value inclusivity brings when delivering equitable, high quality healthcare to our local communities. Where everyone feels valued, has the ability to develop, has flexible working opportunities, with a sense of belonging, supported by our Inclusivity Groups.

**“Locala is a ‘Disability Confident’ employer and as such any disabled applicants who meets all the essential criteria are guaranteed to be invited to the assessment process.”**

**Responsibilities**:
**Assistant Practitioner (will consider 3-4 development role)**

**Job Location - Kirklees - Intermediate Care Beds**

**Salary: Band 3/4 (£22,816 - £27,596) depending on experience**

**Hours per Week**:37.5 Hours/Week (part-time hours considered)

**Job Type**:Permanent

Within Locala’s Health and Wellbeing Integrated Communities we deliver a range of multidisciplinary community services, including integrated health and social care with our colleagues in Kirklees Council. Locala has been successful in our service improvement work and planning with enhanced service offers providing support to patients, improving their experience, and ensuring excellent continuity of care.

The Assistant practitioner role is a fantastic opportunity to develop your rehabilitation skills. The post will involve therapists e.g. mobility and transfer practice, completion of exercises. The development aspect will focus on Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy skills and becoming competent with these e.g. Therapy initial assessments, progression of walking aids, keyworker tasks, leading home visits and access visits etc.

Do you have a passion for;
- Rehabilitation and supporting patients into their home setting?
- Do you have strong communication skills?
- Have you got the ability to work autonomously?
- Do you enjoy working as part of a Multidisciplinary team (MDT)?
- Are you looking to develop your existing skills?

The service is based within Ings Grove House, serving the residents of North and South Kirklees, there will also be a need to work within patients home across Kirklees to support our outreach services.

We offer a 7-day service, working 8am until 7pm in a rota pattern providing assessment, treatment and evaluation of clients’ needs using a holistic and patient centred approach. The ultimate aim being to prevent unnecessary future admission to hospital and to ensure the swift appropriate discharge from hospital to offer rehabilitation and enable our clients to return home. Working with initiative is essential, and there will be opportunities to support and skill share with colleagues within the team as well as across the different sectors.

This is an exciting time to be part of a developing, although well-established team, with a number of service transformation projects in progress. Regular clinical and managerial supervision will be received, and the opportunity to develop clinical skills.

**Just a few of the benefits you can enjoy:

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- **Flexible working** - We are committed to supporting our colleagues to have a good work-life balance and welcome conversations about flexible working wherever possible.
- ** Generous pension** - We offer a generous, defined contribution, pension scheme with matched contribution + 2% up to a maximum of 8%
- ** Development opportunities **- We have a nursing framework and offer a range of development opportunities in all roles.

**Here at Locala we are part of the community and have often cared for generations within the same family and continue to be part of the NHS family also delivering care under the same ethos.**

**Be part of an organisation doing things differently. One that delivers CQC-rated “Good” NHS healthcare services, as well as having a “positive social impact in local communities.”