Home First Therapist - Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and are always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate, and inspire.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Key details

• Location: St James's House, Pendleton Way, Salford, M6 5FW
• Contract type: Permanent
• Hours: 37.5 hours per week (7 day service from 08.00-18:00)
• Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 Per annum
• Main area: Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist

Job Overview

As a Therapist within the Home First Team you will be involved in many aspects of a patient's journey from hospital to home. Our team supports patients within the Emergency Village (EV) where they need additional support to return home; through the triage of patient referrals with MDT discussion around what pathway is suited to meet their needs and promote independence; and in patients' homes or short-term placements to help them achieve their rehabilitation goals.

This role is primarily based within the community, however there is flexibility in the location of assessments as the service continues to develop, so patients may be assessed for home in the hospital, at home, or within the Emergency Village in Salford Royal. Home First utilises a Strengths Based Approach in its assessment and intervention with patients, and our Multi-Disciplinary Team is made up of therapists including technicians, nurses, social workers, pharmacists, housing workers, reablement support workers, assistant practitioners, and care coordinators.

We work closely with patients, families and partner organisations and liaise with and signpost to non-statutory services where identified and appropriate.

Responsibilities

• To support and facilitate hospital discharges within a timely manner providing appropriate assessments.
• To support with the triage process and participate and at times lead discussion around the discharge destinations of patients who are in hospital, or those in the community who may need a short period of rehabilitation and reablement.
• To assess and treat people in their own homes who are experiencing reduced physical and cognitive function with the goal to support them in returning to a level of independence following a functional deficit.
• To provide advice on the management of these patients to any Health and Social Care Professional working within other services, including appropriate placement of patients within the community.
• To support the wider team and assist in the development of services within the MDT environment.
• To provide a Therapy service to people in their own homes across Salford over a 7-day working pattern.

Applicant requirements

• 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.

Qualifications

• Essential criteria: DipCOT/BSc/MSc Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
• Desirable criteria: Post graduate training relevant to core areas.

Professional Registration

• Essential criteria: HCPC registration.
• Desirable criteria: Member of RCOT or CSP.

Skills & Abilities

• Essential criteria: Well-developed communication skills, ability to work as part of a team, flexibility over 7 day working week inclusive of weekend and bank holidays, good organisational and time management skills, awareness and understanding of supporting equality and valuing diversity within their role, proficient in the use of Microsoft packages and databases for digital record keeping, ability and means to travel city wide to different locations each day.
• Desirable criteria: Experience of working in the community and/or rehabilitation unit.

Knowledge, Training & Experience

• Essential criteria: Significant post registration NHS experience including experience of working in all core clinical areas, managing medical, surgical, neurological, and mental health conditions, evidence of wide clinical theoretical knowledge base, experience of working as part of an integrated MDT, evidence of supervising other staff and students, evidence of CPD, understanding of professional standards and code of conduct.
• Desirable criteria: Clinical educator training, community working experience, discharge planning experience, working as a holistic assessor, evidence of contribution to service improvement/development.