Overview
Assistant Practitioner – Band 4 – Calne
Job Introduction
Community Therapy Assistant Practitioner
Calne, Corsham and Box Community Team
30 hours per week
Job Summary
Are you a compassionate and skilled Assistant Practitioner seeking a meaningful and rewarding role? The Calne, Corsham and Box Community Team is offering an exciting opportunity for a qualified Assistant Practitioner to join our dedicated and dynamic team.
We’re looking for an enthusiastic, motivated, and hardworking individual who can adapt to a fast-paced environment and work efficiently. Our team is friendly and supportive, and we welcome someone eager to learn, grow, and embrace change. This is a great opportunity to be part of a collaborative team where your skills and commitment will truly impact people’s lives.
In this role, you will work under the guidance of a team of approachable physiotherapists and occupational therapists, with the chance to develop new skills and engage closely with a wide multidisciplinary team (MDT) in the community setting.
You’ll be responsible for delivering high-quality therapeutic interventions and healthcare in various community environments. You’ll carry out delegated and independent tasks to provide holistic, proactive care, working with patients to set and achieve realistic goals. Strong communication skills are essential for engaging with patients and their families, ensuring expectations are clearly understood and managed.
Your responsibilities will include participating to occupational assessments for equipment needs, falls prevention assessments, and providing support in palliative care and rehabilitation for elderly and frail individuals—focusing on promoting independence and quality of life wherever possible.
As this is a community-based role, a full UK driving licence and access to a car with business insurance are required.
Unfortunately we are unable to offer sponsorship on this role at this time.
Main Responsibility
As a Assistant Practitioner you will be responsible for:
- To undertake the assessment of less complex patients and ensure effective treatment in conjunction with agreed objectives..
- To maintain accurate, timely, and relevant clinical records both written and computerised.
- To maintain the safe custody of healthcare records & manage a caseload of less complex patients.
- To treat patients as individuals and enable them to achieve maximum independence.
- To undertake any other duties that would be a reasonable expectation of the role.
- To maintain appropriate professional standards and agreed criteria are met.
- To work effectively as a multidisciplinary team member.
- To communicate effectively and work in collaboration with patients, carers, other Health Care
- Professionals, staff from the Primary Care Team and other Trusts.
- To ensure good working relationships and communication with all members of the multidisciplinary team.
Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities
The Ideal Candidate
Essential
• 2 Year Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care
• Dealing with distressed patients/clients regularly
• Regular VDU usage
• Ability to concentrate on complex/demanding tasks.
• Ability to work as a team member.
• Ability to deliver patient focused care.
• Ability to recognise own limitations.
• Typing / data inputting skills
• Good communication skills written, numerical and verbal including where there will be barriers to understanding.
• Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids.
• Undertake specific specific clinical and therapy skills e.g. taking blood pressure, rehabilitation programs.
• Basic understanding of rehabilitation and its application e.g. personal care skills, leisure work
• Current full UK driving license and use of a car during working hours
• Ability to cope under pressure.
Desirable
• NVQ 4 or equivalent experience or qualification
Other requirements:
• Driven to achieve
• Self-motivated
• Good time management
Package Description
As a Assistant Practitioner Band 4 we value you and your wellbeing, offering a range of benefits to help you feel supported and appreciated:
- Competitive Pay & Pension:
- Professional Growth: Join our Strive for Better networks, connecting with NHS professionals nationwide to share insights and develop leading care practices.
- Exclusive Rewards: Access discounts and premium offers at national supermarkets, well-known retailers, and indulgent treats like Virgin Experience Days through our Reward Gateway.
- Wellbeing Support: Benefit from our 24/7 free wellbeing service, offering access to counsellors, career coaching, legal advice, and more.
- Flexible Pay Options: Use Wagestream to track your earnings and access your wages as you need them, without worrying about high-interest loans or overdrafts.
- Learning & Development: Advance your career with support from our Learning and Development team, who collaborate with universities and Health Education England. Access e-learning, career pathways, and funding opportunities to help you grow.
- Recognition & Involvement: Celebrate achievements with local and national awards, contribute ideas to improve services, and stay informed through regular updates from our leadership team.
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.
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