Community, Rapid Response, Intermediate Care, Admission avoidance, Rehabilitation

TN United Kingdom; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative healthcare provider is seeking dedicated professionals to join their expanding Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service. This role involves working within a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team to deliver expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation, ensuring patients receive the care they need to stay in their homes. You'll play a crucial role in preventing unnecessary hospitalizations and supporting early discharges, all while contributing to a mission-driven organization that values collaboration and respect. If you're passionate about making a difference in community health, this is the perfect opportunity for you.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave

NHS pension scheme

Access to NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Experience in clinical assessment, planning, and evaluation.
• Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams and manage complex cases.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage and comprehensive assessment of patients.
• Prevent hospital conveyances through urgent community response.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Ability to motivate staff

Report writing

IT skills

Education

Registered PT/OT/Paramedic or Nurse

Tools

Electronic clinical systems

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Community, Rapid Response, Intermediate Care, Admission avoidance, Rehabilitation, High Wycombe

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Client:

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Location:

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

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Job Reference:

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Job Views:

9

Posted:

26.04.2025

Expiry Date:

10.06.2025

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Job overview

Are you a registered PT/OT/Paramedic or Nurse?

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Urgent Community Response North and/or South Squad.

• Your mission: To provide triage expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit squad 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’ll 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’re part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in William Rathbone House, Aylesbury (North Squad) and Chichester House, High Wycombe (South Squad) covering 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• Who are you? If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of our UCR North Squad (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) / UCR South Squad (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter).

Main duties of the job

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers.
• 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.
• Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the UCR Squad.
• Working with a range of professionals 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 for our organisation

Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work!

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits such as generous annual leave, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
• Health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?

• We promote inclusion and ensure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.
• We aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat each other with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity improves outcomes for the communities we serve.

What do we stand for?

• Providing outstanding care, supporting healthy communities, and being 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

Skills, abilities & knowledge

• Clinical assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation skills specific to your profession.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Knowledge of legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those lacking capacity.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnerships.
• Managing complex cases.
• Report writing skills.
• Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues.
• IT skills.
• Knowledge of NHS and social care modernization agendas.

Experience

• Post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: Elderly Care, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long-term Conditions.
• Experience working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary teams.
• In-depth experience of community/in-patient settings for at least 2 years post-registration.
• Experience with electronic clinical systems.
• Participation in research or audit projects.
• Experience in staff management, e.g., case allocation to Healthcare Assistants.
• Experience with the single assessment process.

Special circumstances

• Valid driving license and ability to travel across Buckinghamshire.

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate PPE in accordance with infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations are encouraged to protect yourself, colleagues, and patients. Successful candidates will need to complete a COVID-19 risk assessment.

Application deadline: The post closes at midnight on the specified date. We may close earlier if we receive many applications.

Application information: Successful applicants' information will be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: Monitoring and safeguarding info are not visible to the shortlisting panel but may be shown to the interview panel depending on the role.

Travel expenses: Travel expenses for interviews are not reimbursed.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING areas.

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