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An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Band 7 Physiotherapist. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating, Urgent Community Response service, OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients. This role will be working for our Urgent Community Response Team which has developed pathways with East of England Ambulance Service and the Frailty Virtual Ward, two new and exciting government initiatives.
Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in Ipswich and the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team?
The role will be for up to 37.5 hours per week, including weekdays & weekends. Staff are expected to work 8am to 8pm shifts across the week.
Role
The purpose of this role is to provide highly skilled Physiotherapy within REACT. This role will have specific links with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ipswich Emergency Department and Community stakeholders. The post holder will:
* Provide skilled Physiotherapy clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community.
* Provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff.
* Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand.
* Promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care.
* Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance.
* Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older person’s care/frailty.
* Be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options. Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sam Bilotta Job title: Assistant General Manager Email address: sam.bilotta@esenft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 07593521962
Seniority level
* Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Health Care Provider
* Hospitals and Health Care
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