Assistant Practitioner

Job description

Job responsibilities

Job Purpose

To work alongside Nurses, Physiotherapists, community support workers and administrators to provide assessment and treatment intervention to patients with a confirmed respiratory diagnosis or requiring home oxygen.

To support the work of the clinicians, providing assessments of needs, and working across professional boundaries and within legislation, policies and procedures and core values.

To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner working with supervision

Dimensions

You will be working in a variety of community settings including health centres, community centres, a patients own home or residential home following treatment plans and monitoring the patients condition/progress

Undertake clinical observations such as BP, temp, oxygen saturations capillary blood gases etc

Delivering Pulmonary Rehabilitation sessions

Managing a caseload of patients with a confirmed respiratory diagnosis.

You will participate actively in the services training strategy, including in-service training and multi-agency training.

Working in conjunction with and under supervision of senior clinical professionals.

Able to fulfil physical demands of role, including manual handling applications.

Key Responsibilities

Clinical

1. To undertake individual treatment and interventions with clients under the supervision of qualified staff.

2. To refer service users to external agencies and specialists when their needs are beyond the assistant practitioner (AP) role.

3. To accept responsibility for designated caseload, working independently taking an active role in promoting independence and meeting the needs of the service user.

4. To promote wellbeing, for service users through Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

5. To attend and contribute to team meetings and case discussions using effective communication.

6. To maintain comprehensive and accurate records in line with employers polices.

7. To promote health and wellbeing with all citizens.

8. To undertake a range of MDT competencies, as required by the service.

9. To operate under the guidance of clinicians and only within the scope of AP practice.

Managerial and Leadership.

10. To provide support to other Community Support workers as appropriate.

Education and Development

11. To ensure knowledge, skills and competencies are kept up to date and complete all relevant competencies within recognised time frames (as detailed in the competency guidelines).

12. To be involved in formal appraisal systems, supervision, and be active in identifying aims and objectives for personal development in line with departmental policy. Also to keep an active up to date CPD portfolio.

Clinical Governance.

13. To maintain a safe working environment and be aware of the necessity to comply with health and safety regulations.

14. To have regard at all times for the confidential nature of the work by adhering to confidentiality legislation and not to disclose information to unauthorised parties.

15. To actively promote equality and diversity within service delivery and peoples individual rights.

The post holder will comply with current legislation, the organisational policies, procedures, and core values.

General

16. To participate in any other agreed duties that may be reasonably required in addition to those above.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Good standard of basic education
• Basic IT Skills
• NVQ Level 3 in Health & Social Care

Desirable

• ECDL

Experience

Essential

• Ability to undertake non-routine activity in responding autonomously to individual patients needs within sphere of own competence
• Ability to work alone without direct supervision
• Experience of working in Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Desirable

• Experience of working in multidisciplinary health and/or social care team

Knowledge and Skills

Essential

• Knowledge of patient care in health and/or social care setting
• Awareness of need for confidentiality
• Effective written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to undertake practical procedures
• Able to work both autonomously and as part of multidisciplinary team
• Good time management/prioritisation skills
• Uses person centred approach
• Effective communicator
• Reliable
• Ability to plan ongoing clinical activity e.g. home visits, organising appointments/assessments
• Knowledge of Pulmonary Rehabilitation sessions.

Desirable

• Provide education to clients and carers under guidance of qualified member of team
• Presentation skills.

Special Requirements

Essential

• Ability to be flexible over hours worked within contracted hours to meet the needs of the service
• Ability to work out of hours
• Full driving licence or the ability to travel between locations.
• To participate in and fulfil the requirements of the Directors on-call arrangements.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham CityCare Partnership CIC

Address

Aspect House, Aspect Business Park

26 Bennerley Road

Bulwell

Nottinghamshire

NG6 8WR

Employer's website

https://www.nottinghamcitycare.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)