Assistant Practitioner - Equipment Advisory Service

at  Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Merseycare are looking for two enthusiastic, hardworking Band 4 Assistant Practitioners to join their innovative and dynamic Equipment Advisory Service (EAS), working to support Liverpool and Sefton Community Equipment Services. The positions could be suitable for an existing Assistant Practitioner or a Health Care Assistant with the right level of experience.
Your key role would be to support the qualified clinical equipment advisers in the assessment of adults and children for safe and suitable community equipment provision, providing and sharing your knowledge and skills in relation to assessment and provision of community equipment.
Ongoing training in relation to assessment skills and equipment available will be provided.
The service works collaboratively with many other services around Liverpool and are always open to new ways of working together to ensure safe and effective equipment is provided in a timely manner.
For any further details or to arrange an informal discussion or visit please contact Kelly Colford-Davies, Clinical Lead – EAS: Kelly.Colford-Davies@merseycare.nhs.uk or Tel: 0151 296 7736.
To give advice on appropriate community equipment within the patient home environment.
To Support the prescribing of equipment in the community, to prevent hospital admissions and promote safe discharges from secondary care.
To assist the Clinical lead with training and education on safe and appropriate prescribing of equipment in the community setting.
To manage own caseload and work autonomously.
Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff
Undertake risk assessments on defined patient in line with relevant guidelines
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
The post holder will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload under the supervision of a qualified practitioner. The primary function of the role is to support the responsive services of the Equipment Advisory Service. This will be done via a holistic assessment of care needs, joint assessments with qualified practitioners and supporting with the running of the EAS training programmes. The post holder will support qualified practitioners with community equipment reviews of the catalogue and ensuring equipment is issued and recorded effectively.
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based
clinical decision making under the supervision of a qualified practitioner.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the team leader.
The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users’ and their carers.
The post holder will embrace the core values of the organisation and adopt the principles of Recovery. These principles will recognise the need to:
Promote safe practices
Value the aims of service users
Work in partnership and offer meaningful choice
Be optimistic about the possibilities of meaningful change
Value social inclusio

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