Assistant Practitioner

5 months ago


Keighley, United Kingdom Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Full time

We have an exciting opportunity to join the Airedale Collaborative Care Team, we are looking for a motivated, flexible, and skilled Assistant Practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team providing Urgent Community Response and Virtual Ward care to people needing intermediate care in their own home.

A full induction programme with opportunities for ongoing training and career development is offered. You will work alongside Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, Mental Health Nurses, Registered General Nurses, Healthcare Support Workers and Community Advanced Clinical Practitioners. The postholder will work within a multidisciplinary team as well as independently. We work closely with all community based services including Castleberg Hospital.

This is a 24 hour a day 7 days a week service operating 365 days a year covering Airedale, Wharfedale and Craven, the post holder will be expected to work shift patterns to cover the service including Early, Lates and Long Days or a combination of both and have access to own transport.

Previous applicants need not re-apply

The post holder will assist in the overall implementation and evaluation of care as part of the multi professional team. The jobholder will deliver clinical care under indirect supervision and guidance from a registered practitioner undertaking delegated tasks within competency boundaries.

The post holder will undertake specific skilled Assistant Practitioner work to aid the assessment, planning, and on-going management of patients. This will mainly include, but is not limited to, developing therapy, nursing and mental health care plans.

The jobholder will contribute to the assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation of programmes of care. The jobholder will have the knowledge to interpret information and be skilled in taking appropriate action(s) to achieve the planned outcome. The post holder is expected to work within a wide variety of clinical and community environments.

The job holder will actively support the assessment and supervision of trainee or new assistant practitioners, students and clinical support workers. This will include leading and co-ordinating a team of clinical support workers.

The jobholder will be expected to practice in accordance with Hospitals ANHSFT policies, guidelines, standards and statutory requirements and operate within defined competency boundaries

We are always looking for enterprising and innovative approaches to the way we provide our services. We are a national centre for telemedicine and introduced telehealth to the UK offender healthcare sector and also provide the service to patients in their care homes. Community matters to us and we are supported by 400 dedicated volunteers and have strong links with Bradford University, Craven College and Leeds City College to ensure we inspire the workforce of the future.

We want to attract staff who embrace our Right Care behaviours of compassion, a commitment to quality of care and working together for patients we want to make these part of our DNA.

For further information and full details of the job role please see the attached job description and person specification.



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