Therapy Assistant Practitioner - Bank
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Job overview
We are looking for experienced non-registered therapy assistant practitioners to to join our staff BANK at band 4. Our services are within the Integrated Care Division here at Wye Valley NHS Trust.
Are you looking for an opportunity to try a new area, seek additional hours? We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate, dynamic reliable and innovative Occupational Therapists with a variety of experience to join our service to work alongside our substantive teams.
The clinical areas available are:
Acute Inpatient stroke
Inpatient Trauma & Orthopaedics
Inpatient Acute medicine & Surgical
Neighbourhood Team - Community
Urgent Care Hospital @ Home - Community
Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills are essential, and you should be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
Car driver and access to a car for work is essential to role.
Main duties of the job
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 principles, policies, protocols, procedures, processes, plans and concepts in broad contexts within the area of work or defined group of patients. 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 required for the post and participate in 7 day working. This post may include working with adults and/or children.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
.Please see attached job description and person specification for details of main responsibilities.
We are looking for registered Therapy Assistant Practitioners to join our staff bank at band 4. Our services are within the Integrated Care Division here at Wye Valley NHS Trust.
Are you looking for an opportunity to try a new area, seek additional hours? We are looking for enthusiastic, compassionate, dynamic reliable and innovative Occupational Therapists with a variety of experience to join our service to work alongside our substantive teams.
The clinical areas available are:
Acute Inpatient stroke
Inpatient Trauma & Orthopaedics
Inpatient Acute medicine & Surgical
Neighbourhood Team - Community
Urgent Care Hospital @ Home - Community
Excellent communication, time management and organisational skills are essential, and you should be able to work on your own initiative and as part of a team.
It is essential that you have current HCPC registration.
*If you are considering a return to practice please get in touch and we would be happy to support this.