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Job Introduction

An opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join the BANES Community Neuro and Stroke service. The post is 37.5 hours a week fixed term for a year.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team providing specialist rehabilitation in the community for service users who have had a stroke or who have a long term neurological condition.

Main Responsibilities

• Assess for and provide equipment for service users with complex presentations.
• Support the changing needs of service users with progressive neurological conditions such as Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neuron Disease and Parkinson’s Disease including service users who have reached the end of life stage of their condition.
• Provide administration support for qualified OTs when requesting trial of and funding for provision of specialist equipment, including gaining quotes and liaising with equipment company reps.
• Actively participate in regular supervision. Request support from senior colleagues (available at all times) as needed.
• Deliver personal care for service users using a rehabilitation approach. Create and upgrade protocols for personal care to be delivered by other team members and with support, decide when patients are safe to manage personal care independently.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Demonstrate an ability and willingness to participate in the competency training of specific knowledge and skills needed for the job.
• Hold evidence of continued learning and development..
• Experience of working within a rehabilitation setting
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to carry out detailed observations & functional assessments with service users.
• Ability to work in an interdisciplinary team.
• Demonstrate ability to know when to escalate issues.
• Access to a car to enable travel to service users homes including delivery of equipment.

Desirable

• Hold an Assistant Practitioner diploma
• Experience in community services supporting patients in their homes

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Band 4 Occupational Therapy Assistant Practitioner and receive:

• £24,720 and access to our Group Pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Free and plentiful on site-parking
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission