Community Physiotherapist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a B5 nurse/clinician to work within integrated community teams. The role emphasizes multidisciplinary collaboration, high-quality patient care, and flexible, resilient service delivery in community settings.

Applicants should have experience in integrated teams, excellent communication/IT skills, and a commitment to evidence-based practice, including working in patients' homes.

Qualifications

• Experience working as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team.
• Excellent communication skills and IT proficiency.
• Experience of working in people's homes.
• Be highly motivated to provide evidence-based practice.

Skills

Integrated MDT experience

Communication skills

IT skills

Home care experience

Evidence-based practice

Job description

We want you:

If you have a passion for rehabilitation, thrive working within multidisciplinary teams and have innovative ideas to develop and deliver personalised care plans that support people to maintain their health and wellbeing, to promote hospital admission avoidance. You will need excellent communication skills and commitment to high quality patient care alongside flexibility and resilience to meet the challenges of community working.

We will give you:

A chance to work across adult integrated health and social care services, supported by Clinical specialists, Advanced Practitioners and Professional Leads, to help you grow and develop your professional and clinical skills in a variety of areas, so that you can achieve competence and specialisms in your particular field of interest.

As a B5 you will need:

• Relevant experience of working as part of an integrated multi-disciplinary team
• Excellent communication and IT skills.
• Experience of working in people's homes
• Be highly motivated to provide evidence based practice.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Gloucestershire Health and Care is committed to embedding and providing personalised care through all of its services as part of our high-quality care strategy. The purpose of personalised care is to empower people to lead the lives they want to live. Personalised care starts with a conversation with people about what matters to them. It builds on what people can do, as well as addressing their health needs. Including new ways of working and delivering care, emphasising that we need to make effective use of the full range of our people's skills and experience to deliver the best possible patient care. So we want to know What Matters to You and that you will share our values and join us on this very important journey.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.