Developmental Assistant Practitioner
- NHS
- Part Time
- Wolverhampton
- 25760.00 - 31157.00 a year
Job Description
Job summary
Join us as a Band 3 Senior Support Worker and take the next step in your career. This forward-thinking, developmental role offers a clear progression pathway into an Assistant Practitioner post, with the potential opportunity to further advance into an Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy Apprenticeship in the future as your skills and ambitions grow.
You'll bring a genuine enthusiasm for rehabilitation and a clear commitment to enhancing people's quality of life. Driven to develop your skills, you'll embrace ongoing learning as part of your professional journey. Your motivation and positive energy will help elevate the care you deliver. Flexibility is vital, as you'll work across multiple pathways and contribute to our 7-day service, ensuring high-quality care is always available.
Potential areas include:
Emergency Department Portals
Orthopaedics
Stroke / Neurology
Acute to Community Pathways
Paediatrics
If you're looking for a role where you can grow, contribute, and make a meaningful difference, and you have strong communication skills and enjoy being part of a supportive, forward-thinking team, this could be the ideal next step. You'll work alongside dedicated Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists, helping to shape pathways that enhance patient experience and outcomes.
As the post involves community work, being a car driver is essential.
Main duties of the job
To support patients to achieve their rehabilitation goals by providing treatment programmes.
To complete stroke /neurology specific therapeutic interventions under the direction of by Occupational Therapists, and Physiotherapists.
To act as a key worker for patients on caseload providing feedback to clinicians.
About us
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.
We are delighted that we have been rated as"Good"by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.
The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.
Job responsibilities
To see full list of duties and main responsibilities, please refer to the full job description attached to the vacancy on the Trust website.
Person Specification
Experience
Essential
- Substantial, relevant experieince in a therapy or rehabilitation role
Desirable
- Community experience
Qualifications
Essential
- Foundation degree in health and social care or equivalent qualification
Desirable
- NVQ 3 diagnostic and therapeutic care or equivalent competency based qualification
Skills
Essential
- Full UK driving license and use of vehicle for work
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Employer details
Employer name
The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust
Address
New Cross Hospital/Trust Sites/Community
Wolverhampton Road
Wolverhampton
WV10 0QP
United Kingdom
