RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; Buckingham; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS benefits

Flexible working

Generous annual leave

Job summary

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust is recruiting a Band 6 Physiotherapist for the RRIC team based at Buckinghamshire. The role focuses on rapid response, intermediate care, and community physiotherapy to enable patients to stay at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admission.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team, provide expert assessments, plan care programmes, and contribute to developing clinical pathways across services, with flexible working options and NHS benefits.

Qualifications

• Registered Healthcare Professional with HCPC or RCN registration - Physiotherapist
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy or equivalent
• Recent CPD and post-graduate training in relevant areas
• Experience of working in NHS community settings and with therapy teams

Responsibilities

• Triage, comprehensive specialist assessment of patients and carers
• Plan programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence
• Allocate workloads within the RRIC team to ensure smooth service delivery
• Collaborate with MDTs to ensure timely, evidence-based care
• Develop and follow clinical pathways across Intermediate care and Community Physiotherapy

Skills

Triage & assessment

Care planning

Team coordination

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Education

HCPC/RCN registration - Physiotherapist

Physiotherapist degree/diploma

Post-graduate CPD/training

Experience in NHS community

Tools

Electronic clinical systems

Job description

RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist

Band 6

Main area Rapid Response, Community Physiotherapy, Intermediate Care, Prevention of Admission Grade Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (service cover 8-6pm inclusive weekends) Job ref 434-CR7984519-D

Site Buckingham Hospital Town Buckingham Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - pro rata for part time Salary period Yearly Closing 19/10/2026 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 recognised 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 in being a great place to work and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Mission RRIC: join our team

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Marlow Team working across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy.

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 will 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 are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including two Urgent Community Response Squads. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team – choose #MissionRRIC today.

Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.

Main duties of the job

#Mission RRIC

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review 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
• Working across Intermediate care and Community Physiotherapy 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.

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 Healthcare Professional with HCPC or RCN registration - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist Nurse
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
• Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development
• Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment
• Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life

EXPERIENCE

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

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

• Valid and current UK driving licence and car with Business Insurance 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.

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.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight, however 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 advertised 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 (ESR) 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.