This Band 6 Senior Community Physiotherapist post sits in the North Hampshire Community Therapy Team, which provides domiciliary rehabilitation in patients' homes. The role centres on assessing and treating people with complex, multi-system conditions, managing a caseload independently and working with the multidisciplinary team to avoid hospital admission and enable timely discharge. It is part-time at 22.5 hours a week, with scope to build leadership skills, and an experienced Band 5 with community interest may also apply. Full HCPC registration is required.
What the job involves
- Assess patients with acute, chronic and complex multi-system conditions using evidence-based practice
- Manage your own caseload while working within the multidisciplinary team
- Triage patients and liaise with the correct services
- Deliver treatment programmes, or direct interventions through support workers and other MDT members
- Facilitate safe discharge, including risk assessment, ordering equipment and advising patients and carers
- Prevent unnecessary admission to hospital or long-term care and promote functional independence
- Liaise with UCR team, district nurses, social care professionals and GPs for co-ordinated case management
- Work under the Clinical Team Lead, developing assessment and clinical skills that can be shared across the wider team
What’s required
Qualifications
- Appropriate professional qualification as a physiotherapist or occupational therapist
- Level 6 degree plus postgraduate specialist training, experience or short courses to masters-equivalent level
- Good command of English, written and verbal
Registration & licences
- Full HCPC registration
Experience
- Working with complex needs in a primary care or community setting
- Broad clinical skills across neuro, orthopaedic, MSK and elderly care
- Working with long-term conditions and frailty
- Involvement in implementing and managing change
- Organisational skills, including decision-making and prioritisationInterpreting research and evidence-based care and applying it to practice
Skills & knowledge
- Computer literacy for data entry, email and report writing
- Efficient worker
- Good communicator
- Confident working as an autonomous practitioner
- Understanding of clinical and professional supervision, and taking part in it
Nice to have
- Community experience
- Further education or ongoing personal development, such as external courses or a masters degree, or equivalent experience
- Management or leadership qualification or development programme
- Experience of initiating or taking part in a quality improvement project in clinical practice
What’s offered
- Flexible working requests discussed at interview
- Opportunity to develop leadership and management skills within the team
- Clinical supervision and development support from district therapy leads
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
