Assistant Practitioner Community Therapy

We are looking for an experienced Therapy Assistant or existing Assistant Practitioner to take up this role within the Community Therapy Team in North East Lincolnshire.
This team sees a range of patients within the community, in their own homes, and at a range of care facilities including a drop in assessment clinic to trial equipment and assistive devices to aid independence. Your role will involve assessment to provide appropriate intervention for these individuals to aid maintenance of safe independent function in their homes. You will cover the drop in clinic and see patients at home.
Individuals can present to the service with a range of different presentations and diagnoses and interventions could include a range of specific equipment, and some rehabilitation plans with exercise and functional practice to improve mobility, balance, range of motion, strength and thereby impact on their daily routines, and potential to consider major adaptations where required.
Individual will be seen in the drop in clinic and at home where there is a requirement to consider equipment integrating into usual routines and environment or to consider major adaptations.
The focus of the role is to assess and support individuals to facilitate safety and function in their home environment. Interventions can therefore include a range of assessments and rehabilitation activities, assistive equipment, assessment for equipment, advice and information sharing and assessment for major adaptations.
Excellent communication skills are required to ensure a collaborative approach to patient care from the multidisciplinary team involved.
The purpose of the post is to provide a high standard of therapy service working under the supervision of registered Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists.
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
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As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
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