Job summary
- Main area
- Adult OT UHL
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 197-UT5533
- Employer
- Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospital Lewisham
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum plus HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 24/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Stroke Therapy Assistant Practitioner
Band 4
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust, (LGT), is a community-focused provider of local and acute care, delivering high-quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich, and Bexley. We provide whole-life care and are here to support our communities to live healthier lives as well as taking care of them when they need us the most.
Employing almost 7,500 colleagues, affectionately known as Team LGT, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham, and at over a dozen community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
We have recently launched our new vision and values to mark the LGT10 – the tenth anniversary of our Trust forming in 2013. Our trust vision is to be exceptional. In the quality of our patient care; our support for colleagues; and in the difference we make through our partnerships and in our communities.
To achieve this we value Respect, Compassion, and Inclusion; Being accountable over staying comfortable; Listening over always knowing best; and Succeeding together over achieving alone. You can read more about our visions and values here
Our hospitals and community sites provide a wide range of inpatient and outpatient services, as well as emergency and planned care. The Trust is rated as “good” or “outstanding” in over three-quarters of the services inspected by the Care Quality Commission.
Every year our work includes performing 10,000 procedures in our theatres; bringing seven and a half thousand new lives into the world; carrying out 570,000 visits to patients in their homes or communities and providing emergency care for more than 300,000 patients arriving in our busy Urgent and Emergency Departments.
LGT is a centre for the education and training of medical students enrolled with King’s College London’s GKT School of Medical Education. We are a training centre for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. We are pioneering new roles that will support the changing needs of our patients and are one of the largest employers of physician associates in the country.
We are committed to working with our partners to deliver the best outcomes for our local communities. This means playing an active role in the South East London Integrated Care System (ICS), and in formal partnerships including the South East London Acute Provider Collaborative, provider partnerships with our local mental health trusts and borough-based boards of the ICS in Bexley, Greenwich and Lewisham.
Job overview
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our friendly therapy team at university hospital Lewisham. You will be working within our Stroke Occupational Therapy team supported by a team of qualified OTs but also physiotherapy colleagues.
Alongside your team, you will be working on the Stroke ward; managing your own caseload and working autonomously.
You will be working directly with patients assessing, providing rehabilitation , running groups and supporting discharge processes. Due to the nature of the caseload work will include patient moving and handling.
The ideal candidate will have experience in working with patients in a hospital or community setting, and have excellent communication skills. An ability to work flexibly within a fast paced environment is essential.
You will be working alongside the multi-disciplinary team to support discharges in a patient focused manner, problem solving and overcoming issues as they arise.
You will be facilitating rehabilitation through a variety of methods and formats.
As discharge planning is a key component of the role, there may be a requirement to assesses a patients home environment. The role will involve assessment of the patients home for any environmental risks; to review space for functional equipment or to support decision making for home discharge.
The successful applicant will hold a full valid UK drivers licence and have an ability to work independently in the community if required.
Main duties of the job
This position is accountable to Team lead Occupational Therapists and Lead OT on UHL site. . It will provide therapy in hospital setting or in the patient’s home. The position contributes to the discharge pathway and will support initiatives to shorten patients’ stay in hospital and maximise clinical outcome.
The Therapy Assistant Practitioner will work under the supervision of qualified therapy staff, providing assessment and treatment programmes for patients in the hospital and community setting.
The Therapy Assistant Practitioner is able to carry out a full episode of care from assessment to discharge, for a specified and designated clinical caseload identified by a qualified clinician.
The post holder will assist in the administration and clerical duties for the team and department.
Your personal and professional development will be supported and encouraged.
Learning and personal development is encouraged and we have a well-established appraisal system with funding for relevant courses.
Learning and personal development is actively encourage, L&G trust actively support access to and funding for external courses as part of development.
UHL, which is located in the heart of Lewisham, is a teaching hospital that gained university status in 1997, due to the role it plays in undergraduate education and research. QEH is based on Woolwich serving the local community.
Our vision is to work together to provide high quality care for every patient, every day.
Working for our organisation
Our staff put patients at the heart of everything they do – there is a genuine commitment to providing the best services we can for the local population. This is reflected in the positive feedback we receive from patients, and by the number of Trust staff who have won national awards for best practice. By joining us now, you can play a role in making this vision a reality.
You’ll find a real sense of togetherness and positivity across our workforce, a spirit that we harness to improve services and make our Trust a great place to work.
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Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
- Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
- Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
- Improving the experience of staff with disability
- Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
- Making equalities mainstream
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job Summary:
This position is accountable to Head of Therapy. It will provide therapy in hospital setting or in the patient’s home. The position contributes to the discharge pathway and will support initiatives to shorten patients’ stay in hospital and maximise clinical outcome.
The Therapy Assistant Practitioner will work under the supervision of qualified therapy staff, providing assessment and treatment programmes for patients in the hospital and community setting
The Therapy Assistant Practitioner is able to carry out a full episode of care from assessment to discharge, for a specified and designated clinical caseload identified by a qualified clinician.
The post holder will assist in the administration and clerical duties for the team and department.
Key Result Areas & Performance:
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties and to carry a full caseload of patients under the supervision, direct and indirect, of a therapist
- Assess and provide for equipment needs
- Review patients to assess function
- Progress patients to maximise their function and independence as designated from qualified therapist
- To provide information, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, other disciplines and agencies.
- To promote understanding on the aims of Therapy and to ensure continuation of the treatment programme.
- Contributes to advice and education sessions for relevant patient groups
- To participate in multidisciplinary / multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress, and discharge planning.
- To employ appropriate skills such as persuasion, motivation and negotiation to gain co-operation in the continuation of the agreed treatment programme.
- Maintain accurate clinical records of all interventions
- To produce patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment outcomes
- Input to databases as required
- Referring to the qualified practitioner when necessary, to work independently with a specified client group to manage equipment provision and functional assessment and rehabilitation.
- Deliver and install simple aids and equipment in the patient’s home and instruct patients and carers in use of this equipment as appropriate
- To carry out home visits and access visits, with or without a therapist, as required
- To manage own day to day workload and maintain level of service within the pathway at the local site, and assist other members of the team to make appropriate prioritisation choices. To ensure the effective exchange of information across the pathway team and co-ordination of service delivery.
- Participate in weekend working if required.
Work force
- To provide guidance and teaching to therapy assistants working for Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
- To be proactive with feedback on patients’ progress to therapy and nursing staff , immediately highlighting any clinical concerns
- To participate in supervision and appraisal with designated senior therapist
- To attend staff meetings
- To contribute to the clinical induction of therapy staff
- To be able to independently progress patients’ exercise programme and mobility, including issuing walking aids, for the specified patient group
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Essential criteria
- Evidence of study to or attainment of NVQ level 3, relevant qualification or equivalent knowledge and experience.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in equipment provision
- Experience in working in Stroke.
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working clinically in physio / occupational therapy service in acute setting
- IT experience
- Working in a care environment
- Experience of running/facilitating groups
Desirable criteria
- Community and acute experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of basic principles of rehabilitation
- Able to use computer databases and complete records electronically
- Understanding of care pathways and key issues for Trust.
- Able to work autonomously
- Able to communicate notes in written format to the standards expected.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jessica Crankshaw-Cumming
- Job title
- OT Lead for Stroke
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 333 3000
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