Assistant Practitioner - Community Stroke Service

at  Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

We are looking for full time Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our dedicated Community Stroke Team across the South of Nottinghamshire. We are looking for someone is able to demonstrate motivation, drive commitment and passion for promoting health, well-being and independence for stroke patients in the community. We are a values-based Trust and are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians who believe in the provision of patient-centred care. As a Community Stroke service, we aim to offer a high quality therapy led Multidisciplinary Team approach providing stroke rehabilitation in a patients home focused around achievement of agreed rehabilitation goals.
As an Assistant Practitioner in the Community Stroke team you would be expected to undertake therapy assessments and devise treatment plans with indirect support of the qualified clinicians. We are an experienced existing provider of Community Stroke Rehabilitation and as part of our service we provide a review for patients after stroke at 6 and 12 months. As an Assistant Practitioner you would be required to undertake these assessments as part of this role when required. This encompasses completing a holistic review of all the service users health needs related to their stroke, together with advice and signposting for services.
With a strong focus on quality improvement we continually strive to make a difference, providing an integrated and person-centred approach enabling transformation of services to ensure outstanding delivery of care to the people and communities we serve. We know that compassionate leadership, which focuses on staff engagement and inclusion, supporting staff well-being and quality will deliver excellent outcomes for patients and therefore adopt a bottom up approach to ensure all staff voices are heard and contribute to strategic and operational improvements, promoting shared ambitions resulting in achievable outcomes. Working with us will provide you the opportunity to really make a difference in ensuring that quality services are delivered both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients. We therefore seek a compassionate, dynamic, innovative Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join us on this journey and ensure our patients continue to receive exceptional care and we continue to be recognised as a great place to work.
The Community Stroke Team is split into three localities. The base of this role is within in the locality of Rushcliffe. The team work closely and will require you to work flexibly, across the whole of South Nottinghamshire, to support our evolving and developing service, supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care. This position requires you to work independently, but also be a team player, working closely with our Integrated Care Provider partners providing care to a diverse population covering many different geographies including, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe.
As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations. You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer; Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions) Pension scheme Flexible working and job share opportunities Promotion of a healthy work life balance Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme Receivean induction which is tailored to suit your individual needs. Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes Staff discount schemes e.g.
Discounted leisure Centre membership Free on-site parking (dependent on site) An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services Support for carers Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our website. The job description and person specification is attached for further information on this position and should you wish to discuss this post further, please contact Claire Lee - Team Lead 07973 656 678 or alternatively claire.lee@nottshc.nhs.uk If you want to be the Therapy Assistant Practitioner that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application Please note this is NOT an Assistant Psychology Practitioner post it is an Assistant Therapy Practitioner position

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