Rapid Response, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Prevention of Admission

Job overview

Mission RRIC: join our team

Our Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service needs you to join our Thame Team working across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy.

• 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.
• Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, working closely with our Urgent Community Response teams . Collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care to support independence
• Who are you? 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 – choose #MissionRRIC today

Main duties of the job

Your main duties include:

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
• 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 pathways
• Working across Intermediate care and Community Physiotherapy pathways

Working for our organisation

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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• 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.

Why work for us?

• 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.

What do we stand for?

• 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.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Essential criteria

• 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

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate experience post or preregistration 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

Desirable criteria

• Experience of electronic clinical systems
• Experience participating in research or audit project
• Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Essential criteria

• Valid and current UK driving licence and car with Business Insurance to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential criteria

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

Desirable criteria

• Ability to manage complex cases.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Report writing skills.

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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