Assistant Practitioner - Home First Response Service

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is one of the largest healthcare systems in the UK employing around 40,000 staff in a wide range of clinical and non-clinical professions and job roles. We deliver acute hospital, primary, community and mental health care services to a population of over 1.15 million and a wider population of 2.2 million when our regional and national services are included.

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced assistant practitioner within either Renfrewshire HSCP or Glasgow City HSCP. A SVQ Level 3 or equivalent is required.

The post is full-time although part time options may be considered for a period of 1 year to provide resilience to the service expanding to cover 7 days. This is being offered as either fixed term or a secondment opportunity and as such applicants for secondment require agreement from their current line manager prior to application.

This post is set within a multidisciplinary team working across acute and community supporting those with frailty to maximise their independence and wellbeing within their local communities, supporting early discharge and preventing avoidable hospital admissions.

We welcome applications from experienced staff with an appetite for service improvement and self-development. This post will work across the primary secondary interface, and join the HFRS team aligned within acute front doors in Renfrewshire and Glasgow City HSCP areas. Critical to the success of these roles will be facilitating and enabling communication between and within multi-disciplinary teams across acute and community services.

For the duration of this post, education and training will be aligned to the local induction and competency frameworks for HCSW or assistant practitioner to develop competencies across all health fields to be able to support nursing and AHP care plans, treatments and therapies as well as the opportunity to work closely with patients to enable them to live safely at home.

These posts will be peripatetic working across acute and community to support the development of the 7 day service. Please indicate whether you would prefer a post in Glasgow or Renfrewshire within your application.

There are a total of 3 posts, 1 within Glasgow City HSCP and 2 within Renfrewshire HSCP

Informal contact: Andi Showell - [email protected]

Details on how to contact the Recruitment Service and the Recruitment Process: Information for candidates

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