Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist Community Therapy Service (Brighton and Hove)
An exciting opportunity has arisen for two Band 6 Senior physiotherapists. The post would cover both the Community Therapy Team and our in-reach bedded team.
A B6 developmental role would be considered for a potential candidate.
Our multidisciplinary Community Therapy team provide
* Short term support for people who require assistance with activities of daily living
* A rehabilitation service, including a range of therapies
* Community rehab for people with long term conditions and frailty
* In-reach team to assess and provide rehabilitation programmes to patients that are admitted to the spot purchase bed in Brighton and Hove - we cover weekends in the beds team.
* Discharge planning with access visits to facilitate patients to transfer the care from nursing homes to their own homes.
Main duties of the job
Calling all registered Physiotherapists looking to join a forward-thinking team - you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex!
We are looking for someone (an experienced Band 5 or Band 6) with sound clinical skills to join our newly developed and expanding Community Therapy team. The post holder willassess, treat and monitor patients with long term conditions and frailty, as well as providing rehabilitation within their own homes. The post holder will need to have experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community.
Therapists who have experience of working in teams alongside Band 3 and 4 unregistered staff and enjoys helping others to learn will be beneficial. The post is advertised as full time 1.0 wte. We will consider applications for any part time hours (at least 0.4 wte)/job sharing or compressed hours.
Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential. The post is subject to successful interview, references, DBS clearance and Occupational Health checks.
The post will involve:
This will include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns.
The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions and will involve visiting patients in their own homes or in-reach to nursing homes.
About us
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex, with 6,000 staff serving 1.3 million people. We deliver essential care to adults and children, helping them manage their health, avoid hospital admissions, and reduce hospital stays.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community. We offer opportunities across medical, clinical, support, and corporate services.
Why work for us?o Positive 2024 NHS Staff Survey results, highlighting compassionate leadership and wellbeingo Varied environments: community hospitals, patients' homes, and bases across Sussexo Flexible working options: part-time, flexi-time, annualised hours, and flexi-retiremento Excellent training, development, and research opportunitieso Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove, and Brightono Active EMBRACE, Disability & Wellbeing, LGBTQIA+, and Religion & Belief networkso Level 3 Disability Confident Leader and Veteran Aware Trusto Beautiful Sussex location near the South Downs and coast
Our values--Compassionate Care, Working Together, Achieving Ambitions, Delivering Excellence--guide everything we do.
We embrace diversity and encourage applications from all backgrounds, particularly from ethnically diverse, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ individuals. We aim to create an inclusive environment and support reasonable adjustments during recruitment.
This post may close early if sufficient applications are received.
Job responsibilities
This will include patients who have recently been discharged from hospital and those requiring help to improve their mobility and independence.
You will need to demonstrate good time management and organisational skills and be able to work under your own initiative in a busy environment.
We offer a high standard of in-service training and competency development to gain new skills, along with opportunities for career development. You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop your leadership skills through supervision and internal training opportunities and programmes to meet the needs of yourself and the service.
Please contact Helen Lee (Therapy Operational Lead) helen.lee1@nhs.net or 07825 584941 for any further information and enquiries.
Person Specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
* Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
* Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
* Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
* Has Full UK driving license and access to own car
* Training in student education
Skills and Knowledge
* Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
* Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
* Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
* Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
* Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
* Ability to delegate work to others
* Demonstrates leadership in practice
* Good numeracy and literacy skills
* Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
* Demonstrates advanced communication and negotiation skills
* Ability to demonstrate the application of research based practice
* IT literacy
* Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
* Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
* Supervision and appraisal of junior staff
* Knowledge of professional code of conduct
* Ability to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
* Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
* Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
* Demonstrates co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
* Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Other requirements
* Ability to travel
* Has community experience and transferrable skills
Experience
* Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
* Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
* Experience of interdisciplinary working
* Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
* Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
* Contributions to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
* Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
* Experience of triaging and caseload allocation
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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 (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
£37,338 to £44,962 a yearper annum/pro rata
Contract
Permanent
Working pattern
Full-time,Part-time,Job share,Flexible working,Compressed hours,Term time hours,Annualised hours
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