Therapy Assistant Practitioner

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner to join the Ventilation Team based at Aintree Hospital NHS Trust. The ventilation service provides lifelong care to home ventilation users, delivered in hospital, in clinic, or at home locally or regionally as needed. Approximately 1300 home NIV patients receive our care. We are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Assistant Practitioner to join a team of dedicated physiotherapists, ventilation practitioners and a wider MDT. You will have an interest in respiratory care and have or be keen to develop skills in long term ventilation management., The service is based primarily at the Ventilation Inpatient Centre, the regional unit for long term ventilation based at Aintree Hospital NHS Trust. You will manage a caseload within the agreed sphere of practice. With the supervision of the therapists and ventilation practitioners you will review and provide assessment and treatment to ventilation patients, and take responsibility for your own clinical caseload. Duties include but are not limited to:

Assess and treat inpatients within the Ventilation Inpatient Centre

Run your own outpatient clinics for patients on home non-invasive ventilation

Provide education for patients and carers, including external professionals

Triage and respond to telephone communications received from home ventilation caseload

Triage and respond to email communications received related to home ventilation

Conduct home visits or visits to patients in other facilities alongside the physiotherapists

Assist in rehabilitation of patients on tracheostomy ventilation with the physiotherapists

Complete documentation and clinical risk assessment

Maintain clinical therapy areas and prepare equipment as needed

This is an excellent opportunity to build on and develop skills in a specialist area of respiratory care that continues to grow and evolve, working alongside a dynamic therapy team.

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.

UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.

For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.

Aintree University Hospitalis the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility.Broadgreen Hospitalis home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation.Liverpool Women's Hospitalspecialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK's largest single site maternity hospital each year. TheRoyal Liverpool University Hospitalis the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.