Assistant Practitioner

Band 4 - 37.5 hours - Permanent

The Tameside & Glossop District Nursing Service are currently looking to recruit a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner

This is an exciting opportunity to become part of our award winning service and developing integrated organisation. If you are a self-motivated, dynamic individual with a passion for community care, this could be the position for you.

You will be working alongside a multi-skilled team of community nurses led by Specialist Practitioners in District Nursing, delivering nursing care to a diverse population within a variety of settings in the community.

The District Nurse Team promote wellbeing and independence to all our patients in an understandable and approachable way. We provide the most appropriate care, working alongside families, carers and other agencies.

You must be able to display effective communication skills with patients, family, carers as well as the wider multi professional workforce.

The role of the Assistant Practitioner is to work with the multi professional team and the Registered Nurse contributing to the ongoing assessment, providing and monitoring care in line with the service pathways and as agreed with supervising clinician(s).

The Assistant Practitioner has a breadth of knowledge across the lifespan, providing holistic and person centred care and support for people of all ages and in a variety of settings. The Assistant Practitioner will help to bridge the gap between Health Care Assistants and Registered Nurses by working independently under the leadership of Registered Nurses.

Tameside and Glossop Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust serves a community of 250,000 people across Tameside & Glossop. We provide a range of quality services both within the hospital and across our community for both adults and children. Our vision is to improve health outcomes for our population and influence wider determinants of health through collaboration with our health & care partners.

We have a clear set of values & behaviours which we expect all of our staff to demonstrate & these are:

- Safety
- Care
- Respect
- Communication
- Learning

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Deliver programmes of clinical care and therapy for treatment as part of the plan of care determined by others.

Deliver clinical/technical interventions and/or therapeutic/rehabilitative/social care to patients based on the individual needs identified, using knowledge and skills of Nurses, Allied Health Professionals and health/social care professionals where required.

To undertake initial assessments of patients following triage-using evidence based care pathways.

Able to plan care using established care pathways and trust clinical protocols

Support/undertake the ongoing assessment and management of patient care needs through monitoring of progress, feedback discussions, reports and multidisciplinary meetings.

To work with and alongside relatives and carers (paid and unpaid), sharing knowledge and skills to promote understanding of the aims of intermediate care and/or rehabilitation to ensure a consistent approach to care provision.

Discuss with patient’s issues relevant to their health and social care needs, based on health promotion and social care good practice..

Manage the daily care needs of a group/caseload of patients, under the direction of the relevant professional.

Undertake review of patient health and social care needs as required against the plan of care, taking appropriate action to achieve the planned aims as directed by the relevant professional.

Requisitions equipment from a limited stock list, following risk assessment, for use by patients, giving patients and carers information for safe usage of such equipment e.g. pressure relief cushion

To assist planned discharge preparation and undertake environmental risk assessment of patient needs, under direction of the relevant professional.

To lead and direct the work of other support workers as required to ensure daily care activities are organised and delivered according to caseload and workload needs and identified priorities.

To contribute towards the facilitation of learning and support of students and trainers as part of their clinical practice placement.

To administer medication as directed by registered professional and within trust guidelines.

Communications
Communicates daily with other team members, other agencies and professionals e.g. social services and specialist nurses for case discussion or onward referral of patients.

Maintains accurate records of all nursing interventions and o