Urgent Community Response - Senior Physiotherapist
It's an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we continue to build on our successful model. UCR services work with patients in their homes across Brighton & Hove and East Sussex communities to avoid hospital admissions and support those being discharged home.
Our multidisciplinary teams work flexibly to provide a 7-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. They deliver:
* A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
* Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
We are looking for a Physiotherapist to join us, so if you're an ambitious, proactive, and experienced Physiotherapist looking to take a lead role in a team that provides cutting-edge, excellent acute community care, we'd love to hear from you!
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will use your skills to undertake acute assessment, planning treatment and intervention for patients with a variety of conditions, identifying ongoing needs and making appropriate onward referrals to our partners.
You will be part of the co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team through the allocation of visits. You will also support the clinical and operational leads in the supervision and development of colleagues and can develop your clinical and non-clinical capabilities across the four pillars of practice.
The team works closely with other services within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, as well as our acute and community partners, GPs, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), adult social care and voluntary and third sector organisations.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
Job responsibilities
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence and access to a vehicle due to the geographic area covered by the team.
Person Specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
* Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
* Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
* Training in student education
Experience
* Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
* Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
* Experience of interdisciplinary working
* Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
* Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
* Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
* Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
* Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
* Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
Skills and Knowledge
* Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
* Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
* Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
* Able to delegate work to others
* Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
* Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
* Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
* Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
* Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
* Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
* Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
* Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
* Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
* Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
* Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
* Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Other Requirements
* Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
* Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
* Access to a vehicle for work purposes
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time, Part-time, Flexible working, Compressed hours
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