Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapis

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS FT; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading community healthcare trust in Birmingham is seeking a Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapist. This role focuses on delivering high-quality care within the community, preventing hospital admissions, and facilitating discharges. Candidates should have a Physiotherapy degree and be registered with HCPC, along with strong communication and mentoring skills. This position offers tremendous development opportunities in a dynamic team environment, contributing to vital healthcare outcomes in the community.

Benefits

Continuous professional development

Leadership training programme

Qualifications

• Degree in Physiotherapy with current HCPC registration.
• Evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.
• Extensive experience working in diverse community settings.

Responsibilities

• Complete assessments and interventions in community settings.
• Lead a multi-disciplinary team to ensure high-quality patient care.
• Support junior staff and students, involving in their training.

Skills

Excellent communication

Problem solving

IT skills (Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook)

Clinical governance knowledge

Knowledge of Health and Safety issues

Mentoring skills

Education

Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy

Current Health and Care Professions Council registration

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Band 6 Early Intervention Senior Physiotherapis

***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***

Please note, this is an internal vacancy and only employees of Birmingham Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC), Trust Bank and agency staff engaged with BCHC are eligible to apply at this time.

Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation?Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.

Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our EarlyIntervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has so far delivered: 77000 fewer acute bed days used, 19000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.

Main duties of the job

You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.

A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation, so the people of Birmingham are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes.

About us

Be Part of Our Team...

BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.

IMPORTANT

• Please ensure you check your Trac account regularly as this is how we will communicate with you during the shortlisting and selection process.
• Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address

Job responsibilities

Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings. A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.

We run an excellent Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.

HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles.The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days (8am 8pm)

Person Specification

Qualifications/Training

• Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
• Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
• Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.

Experience

• Evidence of working in/with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team
• Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of people in a community setting.
• Proven Supervisory skills. Ability to plan and delegate daily workload
• Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical
• Experience of working with other agencies.

Skills/Knowledge

• Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the client group.
• Demonstrates a problem solving approach.
• IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
• Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
• Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence based practice. Understanding and application of the CSP code of Professional Conduct.
• Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
• Ability to administer and interpret standardise assessments/outcome measures.
• Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
• Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults. Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
• Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions

Personal Qualities

• Demonstrates clear and effective verbal and communicative skills
• Demonstrates ability to generate written communications which are concise, accurate, and legible
• Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from diverse social and cultural groups
• Able to work independently and delegate work to others appropriately
• Ability to develop and teach ongoing in-service training programmes to junior members of staff/students
• Ability to identify and action health promotion
• Able to demonstrate knowledge and apply standard setting/clinical audit and its relationship to research
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
• Flexible working approach to changing circumstances
• Organised approach to CPD

Other Job Requirements

• Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
• Ability to work across various sites in Birmingham

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.