Job overview
Are you a registered Physiotherapist ?
Our Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Urgent Community Response squads.
1. Your Role : To provide expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary squad that reacts quickly when people are in crisis. Our target response time is under 2 hours
2. Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary conveyance or hospitalisation.
3. Your team : Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists and Healthcare Assistants. Urgent Response teams work closely with Intermediate Care staff to provide support to keep people at home wherever possible
4. Our promise to you – we will support and invest in you to develop advanced skills relevant to the post
Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended.
Main duties of the job
Your main duties include:
5. Comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers within a 0-2 hour, 2-24 hour timeframe
6. Being responsible for undertaking an urgent community response to people in their own homes to prevent hospital conveyances and keeping patient safe at home with the appropriate clinical interventions.
7. Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
8. Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
Support the development of clinical pathways
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
9. As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
10. We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
11. We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
12. 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.
13. As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
14. Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
15. Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
16. Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
17. Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Person specification
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
18. Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
19. Excellent written and verbal communication skills
20. Presentation skills
21. Self-Awareness
22. Ability to motivate staff
Desirable criteria
23. Ability to manage complex cases
24. Ability to develop and maintain partnership working
25. Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity
26. Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
27. Report writing skills
28. IT Skills
29. Teaching patients, carers and colleagues
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
30. Demonstrate experience post or preregistration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
31. In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team
Desirable criteria
32. Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
33. Experience of electronic clinical systems
34. Experience participating in research or audit project
35. Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
36. Experience of working with single assessment process
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
37. Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
38. Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist
39. Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
40. Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
41. Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development
PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.
COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.
Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however if we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before the advertised date.
Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records (ESR) system.
Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interviews will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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