Therapy Assistant Practitioner - Chase Heys Intermediate Care

We have an exciting opportunity for a Band 4 Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our established Discharge to Assess Therapy service at Chase Heys, a community bed base in Churchtown. You will be part of a friendly and experienced multi-disciplinary team, working to provide excellent patient-centred care. There will be opportunities to work both within the hospital setting and within the community. The individual will have a clinical role, supporting a HomeFirst model of care and will be a key link between the acute and community services to promote patient-centred outcomes.Main duties of the job

• You will be encouraged, and required, to further develop your skills and knowledge related to our client group to enable you to provide high quality holistic care.
• This position would suit a candidate in possession of an assistant practitioner foundation degree or equivalent qualification.
• The position will be supported through supervision from one of our senior clinicians.
• The post holder should have experience in acute healthcare including frailty and understand community delivery.
• The post holder will be expected to work flexibly and to support weekend working and may include participation in weekend/Bank Holiday rotas.
  
  Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 9000 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care. Our Services: Acute Care Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites. Primary Care Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital. Community Services Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation, freeing up space for more unwell patients. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre. Specialist Regional Services We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales. Achievements:
• Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
• Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
• National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme