RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist Amersham

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service works across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our Aylesbury Team.

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.

We are 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 collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.

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.

Main duties of the job:

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers using your OT skills and experience.
• 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.
• Support the development of clinical pathway.

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.

We're committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. 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.

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.

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING:

• Registered Healthcare Professional with HCPC or RCN registration - Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Nurse.
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, Paramedic Science.
• 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 or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: Care of Elderly; Orthopaedics; Neurology; Respiratory; Palliative Care; Long term conditions.
• Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration.
• In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team.
• Experience of working with NHS or Adult Social Care single assessment process.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE:

• Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Presentation skills.
• Self-Awareness.

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES:

• Valid and current UK driving licence and car with Business Insurance to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
• 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 to check for any previous criminal convictions.
• Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications.