Therapy Assistant Practitioner - Community Stroke Team

Wye Valley NHS Trust

The closing date is 10 July 2024

Job summary

We are looking to recruit Band 4 Therapy Assistant Practitioners to our Community Stroke Service.

This is a part time role.

We will also consider a developmental band 3 post, with progression to band 4 following completion of competency training with occupational therapy and physiotherapy over 18 months.

You will be working within the community stroke team but also with hospital therapists, home care staff, and of course stroke survivors and their families. You will have a crucial role ensuring communication between these different teams is excellent and that the voice of the stroke survivor is heard by those providing a service to them.

You will also be providing rehabilitation in the community and patients homes including exercise, daily living assessments, cognitive rehabilitation and equipment provision.

In addition to joint working, you will also be signposting to sources of education and information and identifying training needs as they arise. This will involve signposting, collating information, liaising with other professionals and delivering some training sessions.

You will be supported in this role by the Community Stroke service and receive supervision and support from them.

Main duties of the job

To work closely with and advocate for stroke survivors on their discharge from hospital and throughout their rehabilitation with the Community Stroke Service.

Working as part of the therapy and wider multidisciplinary team, Therapy assistant practitioners use enhanced skills in a specialised area to provide direct high quality and effective therapeutic care and support to patients including those with more complex needs. Within the scope of the role, the post holder will independently (unsupervised) plan and deliver individual or team tasks where the understanding of role boundaries and the importance of supervision and carrying out appropriately delegated tasks and plans is essential.

This role requires understanding, and factual and theoretical knowledge of the principles of stroke rehabilitation. Although work is guided by standard operating procedures, protocols or systems of work, the post holder must to able make judgements, plan activities, contribute to service development and demonstrate self-development. The post holder may be responsible for supervision of others and delegate appropriate tasks to other non-registered staff.

The post holder will be required to complete the relevant competencies for the post and participate in 7 day working.

Candidates will also need to be able to fulfill the travel requirements of the post.

About us

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we'd want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust - they tell us it's a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: "The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential."

Our values -Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time...all the time.

Date posted

21 June 2024

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 4

Salary

£25,147 to £27,596 a year per annum, pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time, Part-time

Reference number

229-IC-5807308-A

Job locations

Vaughan building, Belmont

Ruckhall Lane

Hereford

HR2 9RP

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To view role requirements and role responsibilities in full, please view supporting documents linked to this vacancy.

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Foundation degree Health and Social care or equivalent level 5 qualification and A-Levels and GCSE's or equivalent(s)
Level 2 English & Maths

Desirable

Care Certificate

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of stroke and therapy interventions acquired through training or experience
Demonstration of knowledge of core Physiotherapy skills
Demonstration of knowledge of core Occupational Therapy skills
Basic Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
Able to manage busy case load and prioritise
Ability to work autonomously using own knowledge skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries
Experience of record keeping
Evidence of ongoing CPD

Experience

Essential

Experience at Band 3 or equivalent within relevant therapy.
NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using /fitting adaptive equipment
Experience of using moving and handling techniques

Desirable

experience of community working

Person Specification

Education & Qualifications

Essential

Foundation degree Health and Social care or equivalent level 5 qualification and A-Levels and GCSE's or equivalent(s)
Level 2 English & Maths

Desirable

Care Certificate

Skills, Knowledge & Abilities

Essential

Knowledge of stroke and therapy interventions acquired through training or experience
Demonstration of knowledge of core Physiotherapy skills
Demonstration of knowledge of core Occupational Therapy skills
Basic Computer Skills including word processing and e-mail
Able to manage busy case load and prioritise
Ability to work autonomously using own knowledge skills and initiative in sometimes complex situations acknowledging role boundaries
Experience of record keeping
Evidence of ongoing CPD

Experience

Essential

Experience at Band 3 or equivalent within relevant therapy.
NHS or equivalent experience e.g. in inpatient areas, acute or community or community services
Experience of using /fitting adaptive equipment
Experience of using moving and handling techniques

Desirable

experience of community working

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.