Associate Assistant Practitioner

AAC WEST are looking to recruit an Associate Assistant Practitioner to join their busy clinical team to support in the preparation of communication aids that have been prescribed for active patients on the service case load. This role will be based from the Bristol Enablement Service (BCE) and as a development post, will be fully supported by a team of experienced AAC assistants and registered clinicians.It is a non patient facing role. The successful candidate will be a confident computer user who enjoys managing their own workload. The main duties of the job are as follows:

• Communication Aid Programming- Preparing both high and low tech communication resources using specialist software to collate vocabularies which are provided by and on behalf of patients on the caseload
• Equipment Preparation - Preparing equipment for clinical team to take to assessments and training sessions
• To offer telephone support to patients and their support teams in the region on devices which have been loaned
• To assist in the delivery of training sessions
  
  Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.
With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone's throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.