RRIC Community Practitioner - OT | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Buckingham; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in Buckingham is expanding its Rapid Response team. This role involves providing expert interventions and rehabilitation to help patients stay at home and prevent unnecessary hospitalisation. Candidates should have experience in comprehensive assessments, managing clinical caseloads, and demonstrate leadership in care delivery. The position offers flexible working and NHS benefits such as generous leave and development opportunities.

Benefits

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working options

NHS discounts

Qualifications

• Experience in providing triage and comprehensive assessments.
• Ability to manage a variety of clinical caseloads.
• Competence in leadership and coordination of care.

Responsibilities

• Provide comprehensive specialist assessment and case management.
• Plan care programs promoting health gain and independence.
• Allocate workloads within the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care team.

Job description

Overview

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

Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles – and why you should join them: https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/rric

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.

Your main duties

• 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 maximise 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 in order 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

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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.

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.

Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended. Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.

This advert closes on Tuesday 14 Oct 2025