Assistant Practitioner

Job overview

The Therapy Team on Sneyd Ward deliver care and rehabilitation over a 7 day service to adults admitted on to the ward with a new onset Stroke from across the local acute portals.  The team focus on ensuring the service users are supported physically, cognitively and emotionally within a biopsychosocial rehabilitation model using client centred practice.  In this role, you will be working as part of an inter-disciplinary team where you will need to work alongside all disciplines with a proactive approach to service users recovery embedding quality at its core.  Under the direction of registered physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists you will be involved in the implementation and evaluation of SMART goals to ensure service users under your care are provided with a collaborative, effective and evidence based service to facilitate their discharge from an in-patient setting to the community. You will also have responsibility for your own allocated caseload under the supervision of registered therapy staff.

*Previous applicants need not apply*

Main duties of the job

• You will work with registered staff and therapy assistants to provide a rehabilitation service for a defined Stroke population in an in-patient community hospital setting.
• You will be skilled in working autonomously, under the supervision of registered therapy staff, to undertake tasks in relation to occupational therapy and physiotherapy rehabilitation within your scope of practice.
• You will support the registered practitioner in the preparation and delivery of Stroke rehabilitation including clinical work, discharge support and administrative duties.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• For further information on the Job Description, main responsibilities and Person Specification to ensure you have the relevant skills for the post, please see the attached documents. .