Assistant Practitioner

2 weeks ago


Peterborough, United Kingdom Cambridgeshire and Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Full-time 6-month Fixed term contract

Have you had experience and enjoy working with older people in acute, community or care home settings?

You build rapport quickly, are enthusiastic about rehabilitation and love motivating older people?

Additional winter funding has provided the opportunity for Northwest Anglia Foundation (acute) Trust (NWAFT) to commission beds in a local care home to support patients temporarily who are medically optimised for discharge, but their discharge has been delayed. Cambridge and
Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust Intermediate Care Service are supporting NWAFT to provide rehabilitation for patients in these winter beds pending discharge home.

The postholder will undertake delegated duties from a registered clinician, they will have excellent communication skills, working closely with NWAFT colleagues and the care home to ensure continuity of rehabilitation and optimisation of patients’ function in preparation for discharge.

The postholder will ideally have experience of acute and community settings and will be able to manage a caseload of patients confidently within the interim care home setting.
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Cambridgeshire & Peterborough NHS Foundation Trust is a health & social care organisation dedicated to providing high quality care with compassion to improve the health & wellbeing of the people we care for, as well as supporting & empowering them to lead a fulfilling life.

Our clinical teams deliver many NHS services not only via inpatient and primary care setting but also with the community. These services include Children, Adult & Older Peoples mental & physical health, Forensic & Specialist mental health, Learning Disabilities, Primary Care & Liaison psychiatry, Substance misuse, Social care, Research & Development.

Please refer to the attached job description and person specification for full details of responsibilities
- To work autonomously under the direction of a registered practitioner within the Intermediate Care Team in collaboration with care home and acute and community colleagues
- To be responsible for assessing, interpreting, planning and implementing therapy interventions for specific groups of patients
- To provide advice to patients and carers
- To keep the patient at the centre of care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- To plan and prioritise own workload and to provide a high standard of care.
- To work in the care home setting.



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