Therapy Assistant Practitioner

5 days ago

Gillingham, Kent, United Kingdom Medway NHS Foundation Trust Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and motivated Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our Women's and Pelvic Health Therapy Team at Medway NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated therapy team, providing excellent therapy care for patients admitted to our Women's and Pelvic Health services.

Main Responsibilities
  • Accept patients delegated by a therapist or identified under a protocol, and carry as own patient caseload.
  • Treat patients according to set treatment protocols, monitoring patient progression, making alterations to patient treatment programmes as required.
  • Work unsupervised reporting back patient progress and informing therapist of any problems.
  • Participate in seven day working patterns.
  • Assist the therapist in the treatment and rehabilitation of patients using a range of physical therapy techniques.
  • Manage the treatment and rehabilitation of patients as delegated by the therapist, working without direct supervision and responsible for assessing patient progress and reporting back to therapist and assisting with discharge planning.
  • Treat patients individually or in a group without direct supervision or presence of a therapist.
  • Undertake highly skilled support work initial interviews and functional screening.
  • Assist/supervise with a Therapist or other Health Care Professional, the moving and handling of complex, high risk patients in preparation for/during treatment sessions according to Patient Risk assessment.
  • Instruct patients and carers, providing direction and guidance on the treatment programme and progression and guidance in health promotion.
  • Encourage patients and their carers in an active approach to regaining and maintaining personal independence. This requires empathy, sensitivity and good interpersonal skills.
  • Use effective communication tools, verbal and non-verbal, to communicate treatment programmes to patients who may have barriers to understanding or communicating, blind, deaf, dysphasic, or who do not have English as a first language.
  • Attend multi-disciplinary team meetings as the therapy representative as delegated by the therapist. Participate in the clinical decision making process at multi-disciplinary meetings.
  • Make accurate records of patient contacts undertaken and keep monthly statistics as required in line with Trust and service standards.
  • Document in MDT records all treatment undertaken, patient progress and treatment plans.
  • Liaise with the therapist as necessary regarding patient care, highlighting any variations to expected outcomes from treatment programmes you deliver.
  • Liaise with Health and Social Care colleagues to gather/share individual patient information to promote care and discharge planning, and to feedback to the physiotherapists or occupational therapists information gathered.
  • Attend and actively participate in in-service training as required.
  • Attend mandatory training according to trusts schedules.
  • Induct newly appointed members of the therapy team into the hospital environment, systems, processes and routines.
  • Assess for, measure, issue from stock and teach the safe use of appliances and aids to patients, mobility aids.
  • Work within Risk Assessments for moving and handling of individual patients, reassessing and recording changes, and referring any increased risk back to the therapist.
  • Contribute to development of patient care by attending relevant team, departmental or other appropriate meetings and comment on recommended changes to clinical care or service provision.
Person Specification

Qualifications

  • Good general education.
  • Relevant QCF (NVQ) 3 in Therapy/relevant health related area.

Desirable

  • Foundation degree Health and Social Care, or equivalent level 5 qualification; plus, A-levels and GCSEs or equivalent(s), including Functional Skills (level 2) Or - as a level 5 apprenticeship, such as the Assistant Practitioner apprenticeship Care Certificate.

Knowledge & Experience

  • Knowledge of acute and community therapy and services/pathways.
  • Relevant experience within the acute setting.
  • Communicating with MDT, patients, families and community partners.
  • Evidence of documenting and evidencing learning.

Desirable

  • Experience in speciality.

Skills

  • Keyboard and Microsoft IT skills.
  • Well-developed therapeutic handling skills.
  • Evidence of knowledge of Older Peoples care and/or Frailty and Emergency and Acute medicine.

Value Based Question

  • Give an example of a time where you have demonstrated a 'can do' attitude (including the situation you were in) and the outcome.

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