Assistant Practitioner

Summary

The Assistant Practitioner supports high‑quality patient care within Connect Prescription Services by delivering routine clinical reviews, promoting wellbeing, and ensuring safe, evidence‑based practice. The role combines autonomous clinical activity with collaboration across multidisciplinary teams to ensure patients receive timely, compassionate, and effective support

Responsibilities

• Conduct routine annual patient reviews via phone, video, clinic, or home visits.
•  Manage own clinical workload, ensuring timely responses and patient‑centred access to services.
•  Promote and uphold patient privacy, dignity, rights, and wellbeing.
•  Deliver safe, evidence‑based, cost‑effective, individualised care.
•  Build and maintain effective working relationships with colleagues and external partners.
•  Collaborate with internal and external teams to ensure high‑quality, safe, and compassionate care.
•  Communicate openly and effectively to support patient health, safety, and welfare.
•  Record accurate clinical data in line with NMC guidance and applicable data protection legislation.
•  Promote equality, diversity, and inclusion in all interactions.
•  Maintain confidentiality at all times.
•  Support quality improvement through ongoing professional development.
•  Promote health and wellbeing through education and health promotion activities.
•  Refer patients to other services or agencies as appropriate.
•  Provide support across the service when needed, including prescription coordination.
•  Work within NMC Code of Conduct, CQC regulations, and internal policies.
•  Ensure services comply with current legislation and NHS guidelines.
•  Act in alignment with JDS Mission and Immutable Principles.
•  Work within service competencies and ASCN UK Band 4 competency frameworks.

Essential Functions of the Role

Education & Work Requirements

Education & Work Preferences

• Full, clean driver’s licence.
•  Competence in basic computer literacy.
•  Strong communication skills and ability to work both independently and collaboratively.
•  Ability to maintain accurate records and uphold confidentiality requirements.
•  Commitment to equality, diversity, inclusion, and professional standards.
• Level 3 NVQ or equivalent (desirable).
•  Experience in stoma care, colorectal, continence, or urology services.
•  Surgical ward experience (desirable).
•  Knowledge of SystmOne patient record system (desirable).
•  Self‑motivated and effective team contributor.
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Competencies