Assistant Practitioner

Liverpool Community Physiotherapy service provides therapy and rehabilitation in patients homes. We aim to promote independence and improve quality of life for people with physical problems caused by accidents, ageing, disease or disability. These include respiratory conditions, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions, mobility issues, neurological conditions and those receiving palliative care.
We're looking for a therapy assistant/assistant practitioner to join our multidisciplinary team across Liverpool. If you're motivated, with therapy experience and skills, a passion to be part this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you.
The role involves working across Liverpool community teams (North, Central, South, Care Homes, Neuro and Falls) on a rotational basis to provide support to our patients in their homes and other community settings, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
We're a very supportive team with physiotherapists, occupational therapists and assistant practitioners., We'll encourage your development whether through training, job shadowing, internal promotion etc.
What we offer
+ A robust support structure with regular clinical supervision and performance development review
+ A comprehensive in-service training programme
+ Opportunities to support service delivery including audits, in-service training, etc.
+ Peer group support
+ An innovative NHS Trust that's committed to investing in its future and its staff
+ Be part of the development of services at the centre of the future direction of healthcare
+ Structured career progression, support and opportunities
+ Flexible working patterns and our commitment to a good work life balance., Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
Be accountable for own clinical practice.
Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
Lead on health promotion activities as required.
Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
Participate in individual clinical supervision.
Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
Travel across the Liverpool City Region to deliver care in patient's homes & community settings.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email [email protected] to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team or email [email protected]) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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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