Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
An opportunity has arisen for a band 4 Associate Practitioner to join us. The Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team is a nationally respected Early Supported Discharge Team. It is an essential part of the Portsmouth Hospitals Stroke Pathway, ensuring the timely transfer of patients out of hospital for rehabilitation at home. The post holder will be working with a large but very closely connected multidisciplinary team with competencies across several disciplines: occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and nursing. Your willingness and ability to learn new skills as part of a multidisciplinary team is essential, as well as excellent communication skills. Main duties of the job
Assessing, ordering, and fitting a variety of equipment and adaptations. Completing a variety of relevant outcome measures. Following and progressing therapy and care plans. Accurate documentation, including activity and care plans, discharge summaries. Risk assessment and management of day-to-day tasks. Being part of completing follow-up reviews. About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Job responsibilities
Contribute to assessing health & wellbeing needs so that in partnership with therapists and nurses person-centred stroke rehabilitation is provided, according to the agreed plan of care and goals identified. Fully participate in the inter-professional evaluation of the rehabilitation programme to ensure patients meet their ongoing health & wellbeing needs. Demonstrate an understanding of the neurological concepts underpinning the prescribed treatment programmes to enable you to instruct, advise & guide patients. Make appropriate adjustments independently and communicate any changes to patients and prescribing staff. Promote comfort and well-being by ensuring that patients' personal and social needs are met and be able to care for a patient's nursing needs including vital signs, continence care, pressure area care, nutrition, hydration, foot care, skin integrity, and mood identification. Identify & report changes in patients' conditions, enabling appropriate action to be taken as directed by senior staff. Use skills of tact, diplomacy, and gentle persuasion to enhance patients' compliance to enable an active part in their own rehabilitation programme, which may involve treating patients with communication impairment, deafness, or other sensory impairment, or where English is not the first language. Participate in and provide clinical treatment and rehabilitation programmes relating to mobility, without direct Physiotherapy supervision but following professional assessment and guidance. Handle all mobility problems in an enabling way, providing gait re-education and provision of walking aids, as appropriate. Provide assessments, order, issue, fit, demonstrate, and advise on the use of a range of standard equipment, ensuring patients, carers, and staff can use it safely and correctly. Person Specification
Qualifications
Health and Social Care Foundation degree or equivalent. Experience
Significant experience of working in a relevant health or social care setting. Full driving license with appropriate car insurance. Ability to work as part of a team. Recognise own strengths and limitations. Knowledge and experience of working with stroke patients. Experience of working in a community setting. Knowledge of relevant multi-disciplinary team members' roles (nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy). Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
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An opportunity has arisen for a band 4 Associate Practitioner to join us. The Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team is a nationally respected Early Supported Discharge Team. It is an essential part of the Portsmouth Hospitals Stroke Pathway, ensuring the timely transfer of patients out of hospital for rehabilitation at home. The post holder will be working with a large but very closely connected multidisciplinary team with competencies across several disciplines: occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and nursing. Your willingness and ability to learn new skills as part of a multidisciplinary team is essential, as well as excellent communication skills. Main duties of the job
Assessing, ordering, and fitting a variety of equipment and adaptations. Completing a variety of relevant outcome measures. Following and progressing therapy and care plans. Accurate documentation, including activity and care plans, discharge summaries. Risk assessment and management of day-to-day tasks. Being part of completing follow-up reviews. About us
Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff. Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust. Job responsibilities
Contribute to assessing health & wellbeing needs so that in partnership with therapists and nurses person-centred stroke rehabilitation is provided, according to the agreed plan of care and goals identified. Fully participate in the inter-professional evaluation of the rehabilitation programme to ensure patients meet their ongoing health & wellbeing needs. Demonstrate an understanding of the neurological concepts underpinning the prescribed treatment programmes to enable you to instruct, advise & guide patients. Make appropriate adjustments independently and communicate any changes to patients and prescribing staff. Promote comfort and well-being by ensuring that patients' personal and social needs are met and be able to care for a patient's nursing needs including vital signs, continence care, pressure area care, nutrition, hydration, foot care, skin integrity, and mood identification. Identify & report changes in patients' conditions, enabling appropriate action to be taken as directed by senior staff. Use skills of tact, diplomacy, and gentle persuasion to enhance patients' compliance to enable an active part in their own rehabilitation programme, which may involve treating patients with communication impairment, deafness, or other sensory impairment, or where English is not the first language. Participate in and provide clinical treatment and rehabilitation programmes relating to mobility, without direct Physiotherapy supervision but following professional assessment and guidance. Handle all mobility problems in an enabling way, providing gait re-education and provision of walking aids, as appropriate. Provide assessments, order, issue, fit, demonstrate, and advise on the use of a range of standard equipment, ensuring patients, carers, and staff can use it safely and correctly. Person Specification
Qualifications
Health and Social Care Foundation degree or equivalent. Experience
Significant experience of working in a relevant health or social care setting. Full driving license with appropriate car insurance. Ability to work as part of a team. Recognise own strengths and limitations. Knowledge and experience of working with stroke patients. Experience of working in a community setting. Knowledge of relevant multi-disciplinary team members' roles (nursing, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy). Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions. Employer name
Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
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