Job summary
- Main area
- Community Respiratory
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (The successgul candidate will be part of a rota that cover weekends and bank holidays.)
- Job ref
- 381-CT-6416696
- Employer
- Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- SWB NHS Trust-Lyng Centre for Health and Social Care
- Town
- West Bromwich
- Salary
- £25,147 - £27,596 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 25/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Assistant Practitioner
NHS AfC: Band 4
Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust is a friendly, integrated healthcare provider focused on improving the life chances and health outcomes of our diverse population.
We have three strategic objectives:
People: To cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff;
Patients: To be good or outstanding at everything we do;
Population: To work seamlessly with partners to improve lives;
We run services from Sandwell, City and Rowley Regis Hospitals, Birmingham & Midland Eye Centre, Birmingham Treatment Centre, the Lyng and Leasowes Intermediate Care Centre. Our GP practices and community teams provide care in schools, healthcare centres and at home.
Our next milestone is opening the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), a once in a career opportunity to shape care transformation within and beyond the hospital walls.
Developing and caring for our People is fundamental. We were one of the first Trusts to provide the Real Living Wage, as well as a Live and Work scheme to support people at risk of homelessness into paid work and training. We offer a range of staff benefits, health & wellbeing support and will help you to bring your ambition to life through our bespoke training and development programmes. As “People” is one of our three strategic objectives, we make a continued commitment to prioritise support for all our colleagues.
Healthcare services have a significant impact on the environment. We are committed to embedding sustainable practices. We expect all colleagues to support the delivery of our Green Strategic Plan and to drive positive changes in their department.
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an assistant practitioner to join the community respiratory service.
If you already have the qualifications and experience required or you are working towards, we would encourage you to to consider this post if you are interested and/or experienced and passionate about working within respiratory care in the community.
Please note if you do not yet hold the qualifications for the band 4 post, you will be employed as a band 3 until successful completion of the level 5 qualification.
You will be required to have access to a car for work purposes as you will be travelling across Sandwell as part of your job role.
Main duties of the job
You will be working as part of the cardio respiratory team in SWB NHS trust as part of the community and therapies clinical group.
-To work as an independent practitioner, liaising with all disciplines, to provide a generic holistic approach to clients.
-To participate in the assessment, treatment and monitoring of own caseload of clients referred to the Integrated Care Service, including in patient’s homes, community settings and Rowley Rehabilitation Unit.
-To undertake and complete Apprentice Level 5 training willingness to undertake apprenticeship training if required.
Working for our organisation
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated care organisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.
Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises. As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding. The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.
We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:
- Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
- Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
- Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of what this role entails
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Record of continuous learning/development
- Health and/or social care experience relevant to the role.
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent level study.
Desirable criteria
- Foundation Degree in Health and Social Care, or equivalent Level 5 qualification (such as diploma/NVQ/Apprenticeship)
- Qualification in exercise training for chronic respiratory disease
- Sports or exercise qualification
- Basic First Aid Certificate
Experience
Essential criteria
- Previous experience of working in a health care or related setting
- Understanding of health and safety issues within healthcare
- Ability to plan, prioritise and delegate work tasks and activities
- Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient’s journey following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
- General knowledge of disability
- Experience of health promotion
Desirable criteria
- Previous experience working within Pulmonary Rehabilitation or Cardiac Rehabilitation
- Experience of working autonomously and without direct supervision in a clinical setting and applying therapeutic principles to assessments.
- Experience of working with service users with physical or mental health conditions
- Experience working with Respiratory patients.
- Experience of coaching. Leading sports activities with service users of differing abilities.
- Understanding of health and safety issues and risk awareness
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Wendy Morris
- Job title
- Clinical Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970 702879
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