Physiotherapist Band 6

East Coast Community Healthcare CIC; Lowestoft; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community healthcare provider in Lowestoft is seeking a highly skilled Physiotherapist to join their Primary Care Home team. The role involves delivering physiotherapy assessments and interventions in patients' homes and managing a caseload while providing clinical leadership. Ideal candidates will have excellent communication skills, a caring approach, and a desire for professional development. Supported transition from different physiotherapy environments is available.

Qualifications

• Strong communication skills and a caring, compassionate approach.
• Desire for personal and professional development.
• Ideally some experience in community work.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standards of physiotherapy in domiciliary settings.
• Manage a clinical caseload of patients requiring physiotherapy.
• Work autonomously within scope of professional practice.
• Supervise Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehabilitation Support Workers.
• Provide clinical leadership and support to the multidisciplinary team.

Job description

Overview

We are seeking to appoint a highly skilled, proactive and motivated Physiotherapist to join our Primary Care Home (PCH). The Primary Care Home is a multi-professional team of Nurses, Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Health Care Assistants, and Rehabilitation Support Workers delivering nursing, physiotherapy, and occupational therapy, reablement and rehabilitation services to adults in their own homes.

In this role you will provide Physiotherapy assessments and interventions to patients in their homes, working with people to reach their goals, maximise their independence and support their health and well-being. This will include crisis assessments, prevention of unnecessary hospital admissions and rehabilitation. You will also have oversight of the therapy services delivered by other team members and have line manager duties. Your caseload will be varied and allow you to enhance your clinical skills.

Do you have excellent communication skills, consider yourself to be caring and compassionate and want to make a difference to the patients daily lives, whilst being able to demonstrate how you embody our values and commitments? Do you have a desire for personal and professional development? Then this could be your new job. Ideally, some experience in community work would be an advantage, but we will support the transition from a different physiotherapy environment for the right candidate.

Main duties of the job

• To provide a high standard of physiotherapy within the integrated community services as part of a multi-disciplinary team to patients within a range of domiciliary settings.
• To provide clinical case management for a caseload of patients who require physiotherapy. Participate in rapid assessment for patients who present with a variety of acute, chronic, and age-related conditions.
• To work autonomously at a level appropriate to clinical competence and within scope of professional practice.
• To supervise delegation of work to the Therapy Assistant Practitioners and Rehabilitation Support workers.
• To provide clinical leadership, operational management and professional support to other members of the multidisciplinary team within the Primary Care Home.
• Contribute to recruitment and retention of staff and team development.
• The service uses SystmOne as a clinical IT system to support mobile working.
• The service operates 7 days a week 7:00 to 20:30 hours. Applicants for this post will be required to work between Monday to Friday, flexibility of start and finish times will be considered. At times you may be required to work with another of the 4 PCH's from a different location to cover staff sickness, or capacity pressures.

About ECCH and the team

ECCH is well established health care provider and has been successfully delivering NHS care within the community since 2011. We provide a range of NHS, community health and social care services predominantly across the easterly region of the Norfolk/Suffolk borders. We are aligned to NHS terms and conditions, and offer many employee benefits, to find out more about us visit our website - www.ecch.org. We are a social enterprise and staff owned organisation which means staff can opt to be shareholders and have a real say in how ECCH is run and evolves to deliver healthcare for the future.

At the heart of our ambition, we work in partnership with and for the community to become the provider and employer of choice for community healthcare.

Lowestoft Primary Care Home is a multidisciplinary clinical team of health and social care professionals working in partnership with Primary Care, Social Services, social care providers, other specialist community health teams and voluntary sector providers to ensure patients are able to remain in their own homes whenever possible.