Job summary
Working as part of the Acquired Brain Injury 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 based in Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy disciplines. This post involves working with adults of all ages.
Main duties of the job
Clinical Responsibilities:
- Person-centred care: Consistently deploys role appropriate care, treatment and support strategies to promote and provide person-centred care, including providing information, advice and guidance to service users, carers, families, health professionals and others.
- Positive relationships: Develops, manages, and maintains positive, appropriate relationships with service users, families and carers, demonstrating care, respect, kindness, compassion and empathy at all times.
- Team and partnership working: Able to work collaboratively with a variety of health staff, social care staff, professional staff and others. Understands and demonstrates the principles of team and partnership working and with guidance, can identify enablers and barriers to collaborative working and identify solutions to support and maintain team working. Liaises with appropriate members of the multidisciplinary team in a variety of situations e.g. board/ward rounds, handover, case conferences and various meetings.
- Underpinning knowledge: Developed knowledge of clinical, technical and/or scientific theory, practice and principles, within their immediate area of practice. Understands the importance of evidence-based practice.
- Caseload and time management: Manages own delegated patient caseload who require interventions that are familiar.
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.
Worcestershire is our neighbouring county. The post holder will be required to travel between sites.
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.
Details
Date posted
21 December 2023
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 4
Salary
£25,147 to £27,596 a year pro rata pa
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Part-time
Reference number
229-IC-5902928
Job locations
Vaughn Building Belmont
Ruckhall Lane
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer details
Employer name
Wye Valley NHS Trust
Address
Vaughn Building Belmont
Ruckhall Lane
Hereford
HR2 9RP
Employer's website
https://www.wyevalley.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact:
Highly specialist Physio therapist/OT
Siobhan McQuillan, Tracy Humphries
01432363934
