RRIC Community Practitioner - OT

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic team at an established healthcare provider dedicated to delivering exceptional care in the community. This role focuses on providing expert interventions and rehabilitation, helping patients remain in their homes and preventing unnecessary hospitalizations. You'll collaborate with a diverse team of healthcare professionals, ensuring that every patient receives personalized and compassionate care. With a commitment to professional development and a supportive work environment, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact in the lives of patients and their families. Be part of a mission-driven organization that values inclusion and excellence in healthcare delivery.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working options

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with a degree in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
• Experience in community or in-patient settings for at least 2 years post-registration.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage and comprehensive assessment of patients' needs.
• Plan care programs to maximize patient independence and health gain.
• Work collaboratively with a multi-disciplinary team to ensure timely care delivery.

Skills

Clinical Assessment

Care Planning

Team Leadership

Communication Skills

IT Skills

Case Management

Motivational Skills

Education

Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy

Registered Allied Healthcare Professional

Tools

Electronic Clinical Systems

Job description

Main area: Rapid Response, Urgent Care Response, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Prevention of Admission

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours: Full time, 37.5 hours per week (service cover 8am-8pm inclusive weekends)

Job ref: 434-CR6237751-H

Site: Buckingham Hospital

Town: Buckingham

Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum pro rata

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 02/01/2025 23:59

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• Provide specialist spinal services at our world-renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics.
• Nationally recognized for urology and skin cancer services.
• Regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke, and cardiac services.
• Deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals, and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures, and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family-friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [e-mail] or phone [phone].

We pride ourselves on being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Buckingham team.

• 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’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 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. 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 North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury, and Buckingham), choose #MissionRRIC today.

Main duties of the job

#MissionRRIC

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review, case management, and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers.
• Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximize 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 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.

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.
• A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant, there is the option for secondment; all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [e-mail] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist.
• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy.
• Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
• Relevant post-graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly, Long Term Conditions, Respiratory Disease, Cardiac Disease, Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life.

EXPERIENCE

• Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: Care of Elderly, Orthopaedics, Neurology, Respiratory, Palliative Care, Long term conditions.
• In-depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary teams.
• Experience participating in research or audit projects.
• Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post-registration.
• Experience of working with single assessment processes.
• Experience of electronic clinical systems.
• Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants.

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Demonstrate profession-specific clinical assessment, planning, delivery, and evaluation skills.
• Ability to motivate staff.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to manage complex cases.
• Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues.
• IT Skills.
• Report writing skills.
• Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
• Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
• Knowledge of legal requirements for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.

Special Circumstances

• Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.

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.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. 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 closing date.

Contacting you: We will contact candidates through the email address supplied on their application form. Please make sure you check this regularly.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records 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.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.