Job overview
#MissionRRIC: join our team
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our South Team (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter)
1. Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
2. Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
3. Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
4. Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
5. Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team – choose #MissionRRIC today.
Main duties of the job
#Mission RRIC
Your main duties include:
6. Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
7. Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
8. Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
9. Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
Support the development of clinical pathways
Working for our organisation
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
10. As part of our BHT family, you will benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression including supervision, appraisal and approved funded higher education courses.
11. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
12. Travel for work purposes is paid at a competitive rate in excess of the government national requirements
13. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
What do we stand for?
Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
14. Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
15. Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist
16. Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy
17. Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
18. Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
19. Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
20. Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
21. In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team
22. Experience of working with single assessment process.
23. Experience of electronic clinical systems.
24. Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
Desirable criteria
25. Experience participating in research or audit project.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
26. Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
27. Ability to manage complex cases.
28. Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
29. Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
30. Ability to motivate staff.
31. Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
32. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
33. Report writing skills.
34. IT Skills.
35. Presentation skills
36. Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
37. Self-Awareness
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
I f you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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