RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist | Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare Trust; Amersham; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare provider in Buckinghamshire is seeking professionals to join their Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service. This role focuses on providing expert rehabilitation interventions and supporting patients at home. Successful candidates will demonstrate strong clinical skills, teamwork, and leadership abilities. The position offers opportunities for professional development and a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Generous annual leave entitlement

NHS pension scheme

Health and wellbeing services

Learning and development opportunities

Qualifications

• Committed to excellence and motivated to develop clinical skills.
• Ability to work as part of a dynamic team.
• Experience in providing rehabilitation services.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage and assessment of patients and carers.
• Plan care programmes to promote health and independence.
• Allocate workloads to RRIC team members.
• Collaborate with professionals to ensure timely care delivery.
• Demonstrate leadership and care planning skills.

Skills

Expert interventions

Clinical skills development

Leadership

Patient assessment

Case management

Job description

Mission RRIC

Join our Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service expanding across Buckinghamshire. Work across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy within the Buckingham Team.

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

Your mission and aim

• Provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight‑knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. Support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.

Who we are

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 you are

If you are committed to excellence, motivated to develop your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team – choose #MissionRRIC today.

Main duties

• Provide triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of patients and carers.
• Plan programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case‑manage patients through their journeys.
• Allocate appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team.
• Work with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
• Demonstrate professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning/coordination, and care and treatment delivery.
• Support the development of clinical pathways.
• Work across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy pathways.

Benefits and development

• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• Range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression within BHT family.

Why work for us

• Committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong.
• 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.

Our values

• Vision: provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Mission: provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• CARE values: collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Additional information

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.

Disability assistance: 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.

This advert closes on Thursday 23 Oct 2025.