RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist
Band 6
Main area: Rapid Response, Urgent Care Response, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Prevention of Admission.
Grade: Band 6
Contract: Permanent
Hours: 30 hours per week (service cover 8-8pm inclusive weekends)
Job ref: 434-CR6902210-A
Site: Buckingham Hospital
Town: Buckingham
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 20/02/2025 23:59
Be part of our BHT family
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.
More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.
If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact bht.recruitment@nhs.net or phone 01494 734868.
Job overview
Mission RRIC: join our team
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Buckingham Team working across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy.
* Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
* 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.
* 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.
* Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including two Urgent Community Response Squads.
* 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
* Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers.
* Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys.
* Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team.
* 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.
* Working across Intermediate care and Community Physiotherapy pathways.
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
* As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
* We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
* We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
* We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong.
* As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
* Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
Person specification
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
* Valid and current UK driving licence and car with business insurance to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
* Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist.
* Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy.
* Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
* Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life.
EXPERIENCE
* Demonstrate experience post registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions.
* In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
* Experience of electronic clinical systems.
* Experience participating in research or audit project.
* Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants.
* Experience of working with single assessment process.
* Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
* Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
* Ability to motivate staff.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
* Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
* Ability to manage complex cases.
* Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
* Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
* Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues.
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.
If 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 the closing date.
Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.
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.
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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