Associate PractitionerNHS

Job summary

NHS Band 4 Salary: £28,392 - £31,157 Pro rata per annum

Hours per Week: 22.5 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

The Team covers a large geographical area, so being a confident and competent car driver and owner is essential.

Main duties of the job

An opportunity has arisen for a band 4 Associate Practitioner to join us. The Community Stroke Rehabilitation Team is a nationally respected Early Supported Discharge Team. It is an essential part of the Portsmouth Hospitals Stroke Pathway, ensuring the timely transfer of patients out of hospital for rehabilitation at home. The purpose of this role is to provide specialist stroke rehabilitation to patients in their own home and community setting under indirect supervision of qualified professionals.

Job description

Assessing, ordering, and fitting of variety of equipment and adaptations

Completing a variety of relevant outcome measures

Following and progressing therapy and care plans

Accurate documentation, including activity and care plans, discharge summaries

Risk assessment and management of day to day tasks

Being part of completing follow up reviews

For further information about the role please refer to the Job Description

About us

Here at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust, we are proud to provide expert, compassionate care for our local population. We are ranked as the third in the country for research, embedding education and training across the organisation. Our main hub is the Queen Alexandra Hospital, which is one of the largest hospitals on the south coast employing over 8,700 staff.

Our patients come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds because it makes our hospital stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for getting it right for patients, colleagues, and our community, you will find a home at Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust