RRIC Community Practitioner - OT

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Buckingham team.

• Your mission: Provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight‑knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: Help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. 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’re 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.
• Who are you? If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of our North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) choose #MissionRRIC today.

Your Main Duties Include

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review, case management and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers.
• 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 to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
• Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / coordination, and care and treatment delivery. Support the development of clinical pathways.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• Committed to promoting inclusion and ensuring all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• 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.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who recognise the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

What do we stand for?

• Vision: Provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Mission: Provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Care values: collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Contact Information

For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Hannah Felappi
Job title: RRIC Team Lead Buckingham
Email: hannah.felappi2@nhs.net

H. Hallett
RRIC Clinical Lead
Email: h.hallett@nhs.net
Phone: 07816174032

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full‑time

Job function

Health Care Provider

Industries

Hospitals and Health Care