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Avocet Court has an exciting opportunity for 2x fulltime permanent Band 4 Therapy Assistant Practitioners for 37.5 hours per week.

Avocet Court works in close partnership with the three East Suffolk Community Hospitals, Ipswich Hospital and as part of the wider ESNEFT NHS Trust. 

You will work as part of the therapy team consisting of a therapy team lead, occupational therapist, physiotherapist and therapy assistant practitioners, to promote the discharge to assess pathways for in-patients. You will also work closely alongside social care, the multidisciplinary team and Ipswich Hospital transfer of care hub.

Prif ddyletswyddau'r swydd

Under the supervision of a registered Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist, you will be expected:

• To manage a designated caseload of patients.
• To provide specific skilled support to the registered therapists in providing technical therapy interventions to patients
• To use an evidence-based, person-centred approach in the planning, implementation, evaluation and monitoring of agreed interventions following guidelines and protocols to promote the functional fitness of patients and to aid discharge in a way that is consistent with their abilities, preferences, and cultural beliefs.
• To communicate complex and sensitive information effectively to patients using skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation, negotiation, and empathy.  There may be barriers to understanding such as hearing loss, speech difficulty, anxiety, fear, and depression.
• To work with patients and carers to identify therapy goals for safe, timely discharge, using specialist, standardised assessment tools to assess their skills deficits and functional needs.

• In collaboration with the patient, to plan and implement a programme of reablement interventions using treatment techniques to meet the patient’s needs for safe timely discharge. These will be achieved using professional, theoretical knowledge and clinical reasoning skills.

Gweithio i'n sefydliad

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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