Senior Community Physiotherapist Eden ICC
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
NEW and exciting opportunity to work on the Eden unit and within the community for Eden ICC!!
37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend and bank holiday cover outside normal working hours. Full time preferred, but part time hours will be considered.
A unique opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, flexible and highly motivated band 6 Physiotherapist to join the Eden ICC team where you will be working on the ward at the Eden Unit and within the community rehabilitation service. We are a fast paced and dynamic service providing a rapid response element including discharge facilitation, alongside providing rehabilitation across Eden ICC.
Eden ICC provides admission prevention, supported discharge, specialist assessment and rehabilitation for patients with a wide range of long and short-term conditions. We work closely with our health and social care colleagues for care and advice.
The successful candidate will need to be dynamic and able to demonstrate excellent assessment and communication skills as well as good team working.
Main duties of the job
Eden ICC demonstrates fantastic multidisciplinary team working by supporting D2A's (Discharge to Assess) and providing rehabilitation alongside rapid response care. You will work particularly with frailty patients, those who are at risk of or who have fallen and patients with long term conditions.
You will need to have excellent communication skills, be able to demonstrate the ability to work in challenging environments and be committed to working autonomously, providing evidence based assessment, treatment and rehabilitation.
This post offers the chance to develop clinical, supervisory and managerial skills. We support the education of physiotherapy students from local Universities, and you should be able to demonstrate commitment to your own and other's professional development.
Patients can be seen as in-patients (in Community Hospital beds) but the majority of work is based in patient's own homes (including residential and nursing homes).
About us
At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding healthcare services to the population of North Cumbria. The Trust is committed to creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout our county.
Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time':
- Being a clinically led organisation
- Quality and safety at the heart of our Trust
- A positive patient experience every time
- A great place to work
- Managing our money well
As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.
Job responsibilities
Please see attached job description and person specification for further information regarding the role and the essential and desirable criteria required to be met by applicants.
If you are applying under the Disability Confident Scheme or Armed Forces Covenant and you meet all the essential criteria for a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.
Relocation assistance may be available for successful applicants moving to the region for certain posts. Please see our Policy for eligible vacancies.
Person Specification
Experience
* Completion of core junior rotations (Respiratory/neurological/musculo-skeletal/elderly care)
* Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
* Experience of working within the NHS
* Previous experience of working at a Band 6 level
* Experience of working within a community setting.
* Experience of working within a multi-disciplinary team
* Teaching / Mentoring of healthcare professionals
Qualifications
* CSP recognised Degree/Diploma or equivalent in Physiotherapy
* HCPC registered
* Evidence of attendance at relevant post graduate courses
* Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
Knowledge
* Good Knowledge of Evidence Based Clinical Practice within Rehabilitation
* Good Knowledge of Continuing Professional Development/Lifelong Learning
* Knowledge and understanding of Clinical Governance including Risk Management
* Understanding of Professional Code of Conduct and confidentiality
* Knowledge of key NHS drivers for change and implications for Physiotherapy services
* Knowledge of management of patients with long-term conditions and falls
* Knowledge of clinical audit and outcome measures, and their use in service improvement
* Ability to communicate effectively
* Ability to work as part of a team
* Good organisational and time management skills
* Ability to organise workload of self and others
* Ability to motivate self and others
* Relevant practical physiotherapy skills
* The post holder needs good IT skills, the ability to input data, communicate via email and search for evidence based practice.
Personal Circumstances
* Flexible
* Reliable
* Friendly and approachable
* Able to travel independently, (and at times) transport patients and /or equipment across the locality
* Able to work 7 days per week doing a variety of shifts between 8am-8pm.
Other Requirements
* Take an active part in training for personal and professional development
* Willing to actively take part in training of others
* Must have full clean UK driving licence and access to own transport, including business insurance.
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.
North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year Per annum pro rata
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