Assistant Practitioner - Birmingham, United Kingdom - Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust
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Birmingham, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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An exciting opportunity has arisen for the Integrated Care Service (iCares) in Sandwell to recruit a Band 4 Assistant Practitioner.

You will join iCares working within the South locality team, that provides a multi disciplinary rehab service to people in their own home and in community settings.


iCares is a forward thinking, friendly and dynamic multi-disciplinary service delivering high quality and compassionate care to the people of Sandwell.

The service provides a supportive learning environment for people with a passion for patient care in the community wishing to grow and develop as community health practitioners.

The role involves commuting between locations throughout the post holder's working day.

Car driving is essential for this post, the post holder requires a valid UK driving licence and access to a vehicle.


  • 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 iCares requiring rehabilitation in their own homes.
  • To manage a complex and varied caseload of clients to meet patient and service demand
  • To provide interventions to clients, working collaboratively with others.
  • To refer onto other agencies as appropriate


The Trust aims to be the most integrated organisation in the NHS with support for new ways of working and innovation.


As a result of this Sandwell Community is an exciting place to be with new investment and ever closer working with colleagues from the local authority and primary care.

Everything we do in the iCares Directorate strives to add value to the patient and their community. We do this by joining up our teams and services to keep people safe and well in their community. We have fantastic links with partners across the local authority and third sectors in order to do this.

We are a friendly integrated team who support each other and provide care within community settings across Sandwell. Training and regular supervision are available and no one works in isolation.


As a trust we fully support flexible working and part time workers, which can be factored into your working pattern.

Within iCares we operate a 7 day service 8am-8pm, we take it in turns to contribute to weekend working and 8pm finishes.

Please see the attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details on what this role entails.
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