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About
Nottinghamshire Healthcare employs over 11,000 colleagues who help #MakeADifference every day. We provide intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire and South Yorkshire. Care is delivered from over 120 sites within the community from acute settings and across low, medium and high secure environments including prisons.
As one of the largest mental health and community trusts in the East Midlands and one of the biggest employers in Nottinghamshire, we provide care to more than one million people a year. We are also home to national and regional services such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
Nottinghamshire Healthcare has a number of excellent training and development opportunities from mentorship and learning partnerships to fully funded apprenticeships, from level 1 through to Master’s degree level. We also have strong research and learning links with the Institute of Mental Health, the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and the University of Derby. Collaboration with our Integrated Care System (ICS) partners and the voluntary, community and education sectors are vital to our work.
Assistant Practitioner - Community Stroke Service
Accepting applications until: 11-Jan-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 11-Jan-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Community Stroke Team
- Address
- Lings Bar Hospital
- Town
- Nottingham
- Postcode
- NG2 6PR
- Major / Minor Region
- Nottinghamshire
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £27,485 - £30,162 per annum (pro rata for part time)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Assistant Practitioner
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Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our established Integrated Community Stroke Service to deliver rehabilitation into various community settings. The role of Therapy Assistant Practitioner in the Multidisciplinary Community Stroke Team would be to provide high quality holistic, evidence based care to patients / service users that is responsive, effective and efficient. You would work with Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Speech and Language therapists, Clinical Psychologist, Assistant Practitioners and Rehab Support Workers.
Care is currently delivered 8am-5pm, 5 days a week, including Bank Holidays. Weekend working may be required in the future.
The Community Health Services Division of NottsHC has an extensive portfolio providing childrens, adults and specialist services, covering a vast geographical area. Offering various roles and career development opportunities, working within supportive teams that encourage us all to work to the best of our abilities to provide the highest quality care.
Being part of an organisation as diverse as NottsHC provides you with great opportunities to be innovative and gives you permission to grow both professionally and personally and really make a difference.
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This role requires day-to-day delivery of therapeutic care in our Integrated Community Stroke Multidisciplinary Team of AHP’s, together you all make the difference. You will need to:
Demonstrate your passion and clinical ability to assess patients who present with significant physical health care needs.
Support our patients within the community to enable them to live their optimum life, being self-caring and independent with their health needs following a stroke.
Analyse and develop therapy treatment plans, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary framework, providing compassionate, realistic and timely support to a diverse patient group and their families.
Demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to be adaptable, reliable, resourceful and approachable, evidencing high levels of personal and clinical credibility, being able to establish effective working relationships in a range of work settings.
Working for our organisation
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are looking for a full time Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join our dedicated Community Stroke Team across the South of Nottinghamshire.
We are looking for someone who is able to demonstrate motivation, drive commitment and passion for promoting health, well-being and independence for stroke patients in the community. We are a values-based Trust and are looking for dedicated and enthusiastic clinicians who believe in the provision of patient-centred care.
As a Community Stroke service, we aim to offer a high quality therapy led Multidisciplinary Team approach providing stroke rehabilitation in a patient’s home focused around achievement of agreed rehabilitation goals. As an Assistant Practitioner in the Community Stroke team you would be expected to undertake therapy assessments and devise treatment plans with indirect support of the qualified clinicians.
We are an experienced existing provider of Community Stroke Rehabilitation and as part of our service we provide a review for patients after stroke at 6 and 12 months. As an Assistant Practitioner you may be required to undertake these assessments as part of this role when required. This encompasses completing a holistic review of all the service users health needs related to their stroke, together with advice and signposting for services.
With a strong focus on quality improvement we continually strive to make a difference, providing an integrated and person-centred approach enabling transformation of services to ensure outstanding delivery of care to the people and communities we serve.
We know that compassionate leadership, which focuses on staff engagement and inclusion, supporting staff well-being and quality will deliver excellent outcomes for patients and therefore adopt a bottom up approach to ensure all staff voices are heard and contribute to strategic and operational improvements, promoting shared ambitions resulting in achievable outcomes.
Working with us will provide you the opportunity to really make a difference in ensuring that quality services are delivered both now and into the future based around the needs of our patients.
We therefore seek a compassionate, dynamic, innovative Therapy Assistant Practitioner to join us on this journey and ensure our patients continue to receive exceptional care and we continue to be recognised as a great place to work.
The Community Stroke Team is split into three localities. The base of this role is within in the locality of Rushcliffe. The team work closely and will require you to work flexibly, across the whole of South Nottinghamshire, to support our evolving and developing service, supporting the team to deliver high quality integrated care.
This position requires you to work independently, but also be a team player, working closely with our Integrated Care Provider partners providing care to a diverse population covering many different geographies including, Broxtowe, Gedling and Rushcliffe.
As you settle in you will receive regular, meaningful clinical and managerial supervisions and an appraisal within 4 months of commencing in your role to establish how we can support you to be the best version of yourself, whilst achieving your developmental needs and aspirations.
You will have access to internal and external training and quality improvement opportunities and not to mention the wide range of employee benefits NottsHC offer;
- Annual leave of 27 days plus bank holidays (this will increase up to 33 days depending on NHS service and in accordance with A4C terms and conditions)
- Pension scheme
- Flexible working and job share opportunities
- Promotion of a healthy work life balance
- Newly qualified staff will be offered a preceptorship programme
- Receive an induction which is tailored to suit your individual needs.
- Salary sacrifice schemes e.g. public transport loans, cycle schemes
- Staff discount schemes e.g. Discounted leisure Centre membership
- Free on-site parking (dependent on site)
- An extensive health and wellbeing package including Occupational Health, Physiotherapy and Staff Counselling services
- Support for carers
Further information regarding NottsHC employee benefits can be found on our website.
The job description and person specification is attached for further information on this position and should you wish to discuss this post further, please contact Claire Lee - Team Lead 07973 656 678 or alternatively [email protected] or Michelle McMillan 07973946448 [email protected]
If you want to be the Therapy Assistant Practitioner that makes a difference, then we look forward to receiving your application
Please note this is NOT an Assistant Psychology Practitioner post it is an Assistant Therapy Practitioner position.
A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Please note applicants will be required to pay for their DBS check. Costs are deducted from salary following appointment. The cost of the DBS application is £26.40 (standard) or £54.40 (enhanced), this cost will be deducted from your salary over the first 2 months of employment.
You are encouraged to enrol for the DBS Update Service. An annual fee of £16 per year applies.
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of multi-disciplinary work. This could include substantial voluntary work or work in a related field eg housing.
- Experience managing own work in a team setting
- Experience working with individuals, groups in an organised and purposeful way
- Experience of record keeping, report writing, correspondence
- Experience of working with one or more of the main care groups relevant to community care
- Experience dealing with equality and diversity issues and how equality considerations apply to this role.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working in a Stroke Neuro multi-disciplinary work.
- Experience of working in the community setting
- Experience of working at Band 4 or equivalent level in a health or social care setting.
- Working with Stroke survivors and/or individuals who have long term conditions
- Experience of using databases
- Knowledge of stroke pathway which underpins the provision of the stroke service
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good understanding of community care objectives and practices (e.g. nursing, physiotherapy or occupational therapy)
- Understanding of role of community stroke and the social services and their services and other relevant agencies. (e.g. health and housing)
- Understanding of need and risk in relation to community care
- Understanding of the concepts of single holistic assessments and care planning
- Understanding of the roles and skills of the members of the MDT
- Awareness of a range of minor daily living equipment and adaptations
- Awareness of rehabilitation and promoting independence
- Understanding of and commitment to supporting equality and valuing diversity
- Effective written and verbal communication skills and good interpersonal skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of stroke rehabilitation
- Awareness of Mental Health issues
- Knowledge of how to access equipment and adaptations.
- Awareness of the main issues in service delivery affecting service users
- Awareness of a range of benefits
Contractual requirements
Essential criteria
- Flexible working hours to work weekends/bank holidays and across localities to meet the needs of the service
- A full UK driving licence and vehicle for business use is required for this post; however reasonable adjustments will be made for disabled individuals in line with the Equality Act 2010.
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of IT skills in order to complete detailed assessments – such as word, excel and other IT systems
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload independently
- Ability to communicate with patients and carers who may have cognitive or communication impairment.
- Ability to deal with challenging family situations, or circumstances.
- Ability to recognise the need for help and support from other professionals.
- Ability to complete a standard assessment of need and take appropriate action.
- Ability to involve individuals in a person-centered approach to care.
- Ability to prioritise and plan workload independently
- Ability to initiate and sustain a purposeful professional relationship
- Ability to contribute to team working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with System one
- Ability to take on administration and organisational tasks within a team.
- Ability to support the team’s referral process.
- Ability to empower patients / service users and enable them to live as independently as possible
- Ability to work in partnership with patents / service users and carers
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- NVQ 3 in Health or Health and Social Care or equivalent
- Foundation degree or equivalent e.g. accredited CPD units
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of stroke specific training
Values & Behaviours
Essential criteria
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate that they act in line with Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust Values: Trust Honesty Respect Compassion Teamwork
- All colleagues are expected to demonstrate an understanding of and commitment to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) and how it applies to their role. The Trust’s expectations are highlighted within our EDI Policy, and associated EDI and Human Rights legislation
Physical requirements
Essential criteria
- Has the ability to perform the full range of duties.
- Mild/Moderate physical effort
- Frequent exertion
- Combination of Admin and Clinical rehab work
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Claire Lee
- Job title
- Community Stroke Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07973656678
- Additional information
Claire Lee - Community Stroke Team Lead
[email protected] 07973 656 678
or Michelle McMillan
[email protected] 07973946448
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- Duncan Macmillan House
- Porchester Road
- Mapperley
- Nottingham
- Nottinghamshire
- NG3 6AA
- Telephone
- 0115 667 0364 - Corporate/Mental Health Services
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