Assistant Practitioner

A great opportunity has arisen to work as an Assistant Practitioner (Band 4) within Bradford District Care Foundation Trust's Continence Service. We are a well-established team delivering expert care to individuals with bladder and bowel problems across the primary care setting and care homes. We are also responsible for delivering education across the district on continence care and catheterisation, the mechanism for this delivery is varied and responds to ever changing needs. We pride ourselves on our multidisciplinary approach to patient care and are very proud of the service that we deliver.

You will be responsible for undertaking continence assessments and reassessments, both in the community, and supporting staff and residents in care homes. The role will also include undertaking regular telephone clinics, supporting service users who require reassessment. You will be an effective member of the continence team, developing and maintaining effective channels of communication with other professionals and agencies.

Good communications skills, both verbal and written are essential for this role. You must be a flexible, caring, professional and have a passion for continence, with an ability to work in challenging situations that will involve problem solving and being supportive to patient needs.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of this position you can email the team leader for the service on stacey.knowles@bdct.nhs.uk., To work as a Assistant Practitioner within the Continence Service team, supporting the Continence Nurses in delivering a high quality continence service in line with national recommendations, to contribute to the ongoing development of the service.

Everything we do is underpinned by our core values: -

We Care - We act with respect and empathy, and always value difference

We Listen - We understand people's views and respond to their individual needs

We Deliver - We develop and provide excellent services and support our partners

We will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements to enable staff to balance their work and home lives and support staff by offering a fantastic range of benefits including :

Increase mileage rates for > 3500

A wide range of health and wellbeing support packages

A range of internal and external development and learning opportunities

Plus many more.

We are also proud to pledge our support to the Armed Forces and hold a Bronze Award in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme.

BDCFT is dedicated to environmental and social sustainability by delivering on the commitments within our Green Plan. All staff are actively encouraged and supported to participate in training and to identify and implement sustainable quality improvement across all service areas and activities.

The Trust reserves the right to close this position early if a significant number of applications are received.