Therapy Assistant Practitioner

Our ESDT is an innovative and highly specialist team providing stroke rehabilitation for patients in the community setting. You will be working alongside a highly experienced multi-disciplinary team (OT’s, Physio’s, Psychologists, Nurse, Speech Therapist, and therapy assistants) who will support you to manage a caseload; assessing and developing treatment programs for Stroke patients. There will be ample scope for individual training and development, service development and research projects.
- To support registered staff in the administrative duties required for the functioning of the Therapy Department.
- To take responsibility for own caseload providing direct Therapy intervention for stroke patients under the supervision of a registered practitioner across 4 disciplines; Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Therapy and Dietetics
- To be accountable for own clinical practice whilst undertaking the assessment and treatment/intervention of identified patient group within agreed parameters and defined protocols of care.

To participate in and contribute to audit and service development

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

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**See Job Description for further details**:
1. To establish a therapeutic relationship with patients and assess their needs according to agreed protocols and within defined sphere of practice
2. To plan and implement treatment / intervention for specified patient group, utilising individual or group activities / rehabilitation programmes, as required and according to agreed protocols and defined sphere of
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3. To monitor the progress of patients and adjust interventions where necessary, Liaising with registered practitioners as required
4. To obtain informed consent prior to undertaking any intervention and to develop and agree individual goals with the patient, their carers and other members of the multidisciplinary team.
5. To record and report findings sensitively, accurately and appropriately, following the standard procedure used by the department.
6. To liaise with and within agreed parameters initiate referrals on to other members of the Multi Disciplinary Team and external agencies to support the effective management of patients care.
7. Where appropriate to undertake intervention in the community, within the patients own home or other settings as appropriate
8. To ensure that the dignity and respect of patients and their carers is maintained at all times
9. To assess for, provide, fit and demonstrate defined items of adaptive equipment according to local guidelines and evidence of competency.
10. To assess for and refer on appropriately for minor adaptations under supervision of a Registered Occupational Therapist
11. To provide information and advice to patients and their carers on a range of services provided by local health, social care and voluntary agencies as required, including any relevant information regarding criteria or exclusions that may be in place
12. Within all aspects of practice adopt strategies to identify and combat potential and actual barriers to understanding.