Therapy Assistant Practitioner

We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our therapy team within the Stowmarket Integrated Neighbourhood Team. The role involves working 4 days a week managing your own caseload of patients within the Stowmarket and Needham Market area. You would learn skills to improve your patients balance, independence and reduce the risk of falls.

The therapy team consists of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, therapy assistant practitioners and generic workers whom see adults with a physical health need requiring therapy at home. We visit patients at home or see them in the therapy gym to promote the physical health of our patients by facilitating exercise programmes, providing equipment and practicing activities of daily living. We work closely with our community nursing colleagues and social care colleagues who are also based with us in Stowlodge. Together we form the Stowmarket Integrated Neighbourhood team., We care about our patients and have worked hard to create opportunities for patients to improve their physical health and wellbeing by attending clinics, setting up a better balance group and linking with the local leisure centre. Next year we are planning to facilitate a gardening group and continue our falls awareness work, therefore need someone who is equally motivated to support our most vulnerable community patients and ensure they deliver high quality care.

Therapy experience is essential but community experience is preferred but not essential as full training will be given. There is an expectation you would use your own car for work initially. There is a lease care scheme which would be available for this post should this be of interest.

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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