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Job Introduction
Join Our Team as a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner – Wiltshire (22.5 hours/week)
We’re looking for a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner to join our dynamic therapy team in Wiltshire. This is a part-time role (22.5 hours per week) with a flexible base location—we’ll discuss the best fit for you at interview.
Job Introduction
Join Our Team as a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner – Wiltshire (22.5 hours/week)
We’re looking for a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner to join our dynamic therapy team in Wiltshire. This is a part-time role (22.5 hours per week) with a flexible base location—we’ll discuss the best fit for you at interview.
Are you passionate about making a real difference in people’s lives? Do you want to be part of a forward-thinking, compassionate team helping stroke survivors and individuals with neurological conditions live fuller, more independent lives?
About The Role
Working across a variety of settings—people’s homes, clinics, and community spaces—you’ll support individuals in their recovery journey by delivering meaningful, person-centred therapy programmes. Your work will support physical, cognitive, emotional, and psychological rehabilitation.
You’ll follow professional guidelines and protocols and work closely with qualified therapists and the wider team to ensure each person gets the best support possible.
Why Join Us?
Make a lasting impact in the lives of stroke and neuro-rehab patients
Flexible working across multiple hub locations in Wiltshire
Supportive team environment with ongoing professional development
Be part of a service that truly empowers recovery and independence
If you're empathetic, proactive, and keen to work in a varied and rewarding role that changes lives every day, we want to hear from you.
A full valid driving licence and access to a car to use regularly for business purposes is essential.
For further details, please contact
Donna Bayliss
Head of Service
Main Responsibility
- To work within a multi-professional team undertaking practitioner role.
- To plan and implement treatment and care to patients within professional guidelines.
- To keep the patient at the centre of his or her care, ensuring patient and carer participation in decision making.
- Deliver therapy intervention within a community setting as specified, under the guidance of a registered practitioner.
- To practice the principles and philosophy of individualised patient care in accordance with Trust Policy, procedures and regulatory body’s guidelines.
- To manage their time, tasks and resources effectively and to contribute to the smooth running of the service.
- To work independently day to day holding and a small caseload, prioritising and managing own workload- under therapy guidance
- Deliver stroke related neuro therapy to defined caseload, supporting the MDT which comprises OT, PT, SLT and dietetics.
- Progress treatment plans with minimal support from therapist
The Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate will have the following:
- 5 GCSE / GCE or equivalent experience
- NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
- Foundation Degree – or willingness to achieve within specified time frame
- Ability to work as a team member
- Delivering patient focused care
- Ability to recognise own limitations
- Relevant experience of supporting stroke therapists.
- Experience of community working, preferably within Health and Social Care
- Experience of working under distanced supervision
- Excellent organisation and communication (written, face to face and on the telephone) skills
- Physical skills to manually handle patients and use appropriate lifting aids
- Ability to respond to changing or competing priorities.
- Ability to use initiative but recognise when to seek further assistance.
- Current full driving license and use of a car during working hours
- Ability to demonstrate tact, support and reassurance
- Competent listening and observation skills
- Driven to achieve
- Self-motivated
- Good time management
- Ability to manage the emotional pressures that may arise with patient contact.
As a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner Worker, you’ll be part of our valued team
You will feel valued as a Neuro and Stroke Assistant Practitioner Worker within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- A salary of £26,712 (this will be pro-rated to the hours worked) with group pension
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.
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