Senior Community Physiotherapist

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust; Cirencester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic Integrated Community Team at an established health trust, dedicated to providing outstanding care and support to individuals in the community. As a Band 6 Physiotherapist, you will play a vital role in facilitating rapid discharge from hospitals and promoting independence through personalized rehabilitation plans. This is a fantastic opportunity to work in a supportive environment that values your contributions and offers extensive training and development opportunities. If you are passionate about community work and making a real difference in people's lives, we want to hear from you!

Benefits

Free Car Parking

27 Days Leave Plus Bank Holidays

Broad Range of Training Opportunities

Generous NHS Pension

Flexible Working Opportunities

Recognition and Long Service Awards

Access to Discounts and Salary Sacrifice Schemes

Qualifications

• Must have a Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy and HCPC registration.
• Experience in community rehabilitation and managing junior staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide assessments and goal planning for patients in their homes.
• Work collaboratively with Occupational Therapists and Nurses.

Skills

Community Rehabilitation

Assessment and Goal Planning

Multi-disciplinary Collaboration

Pain Management

Therapeutic Handling

Education

Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy

HCPC Registration

Membership to a relevant professional body

Tools

Vehicle for Community Visits

Job description

We love what we do and we think you will, too!

At Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust (GHC), we provide joined-up mental health, physical health and learning disability services to people of all ages across Gloucestershire. We run community hospitals and provide care and support in people’s own homes and in a range of other locations across the county.

We are on a mission to enable people to live the best life they can and we have a vision to work together to provide outstanding care. We put people at the heart of our services, focusing on personalised care by asking ‘what matters to you’.

We’re passionate about making sure that everyone can contribute to achieving our mission and we are continually working to support healthy and happy high-quality teams in all areas of the Trust.

Job overview

Would you like to work as part of a dynamic, developing Integrated Community Team? Across Gloucestershire, we have had major investment in our Home First and Reablement Team, and as a result of this, we have an opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Team and be a key part of developing our therapy-led service in the South Cotswolds. Our Team is based in Cirencester, and we work closely with the GP practices in the Primary Care Network, alongside our Adult Social Care colleagues and voluntary organisations in the locality.

This is an exciting time to join our team, as we build on our existing services in order to support more people to live independently at home. If you have a passion for community work and delivering personalised care, then we would love to hear from you.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in a very supportive integrated team, with access to training, regular supervision, annual appraisal, and the autonomy to be a lead professional in our new service delivery.

As you will be driving around the beautiful Cotswolds delivering our service, being a car driver is essential to the role. There might be opportunity for onsite accommodation at Cirencester Hospital - please get in touch for details.

Main duties of the job

In line with the Government hospital discharge and community support policy, and the discharge to assess model, our Home First service is a time-limited assessment service for people in their own homes to facilitate rapid discharge from Acute and Community hospitals. We also provide Reablement to patients in the community, to prevent hospital admission and to facilitate maximum independence, working on jointly agreed goals, promoting personalised care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a Physiotherapist, you would be a key part of our team, providing assessment, goal planning, and reviews, working alongside Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Reablement workers, and rehabilitation assistants to enable our patients to gain their maximum level of independence in their own home. The caseload will be varied, ranging from rapid assessment to prevent hospital admission, Home First assessments to establish pathways of care following hospital admission, through to setting goals as part of a reablement pathway.

Person specification

QUALIFICATIONS

• Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registration
• Driving licence and use of vehicle
• Membership to a relevant professional body e.g. CSP

LENGTH AND / OR NATURE OF EXPERIENCE

• Broad range of clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas
• Solid experience as a physiotherapist, or the ability to demonstrate relevant experience in the field of rehabilitation
• Experience of managing junior members of staff and rehabilitation assistants
• Evidence of working unsupervised
• Evidence of working across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency boundaries
• Experience of performance management

PROFESSIONAL / MANAGERIAL / SPECIALIST KNOWLEDGE

• Able to deliver community rehabilitation and treatment of patients with complex clinical presentations
• Ability to deliver in-service training programmes
• Ability to clinically practice the core areas of exercise therapy, management of pain relief, mobility training, and therapeutic handling
• Able to demonstrate specialist knowledge in rehabilitation of patients with complex needs / multi-pathologies

When joining us, as well as becoming part of a team that makes a difference, we also offer:

• Free car parking at many of our sites
• 27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service
• A broad range of training and development opportunities, including apprenticeships up to Level 7 qualification.
• A multi-professional preceptorship programme for all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners.
• Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when working unsocial hours
• Flexible, family-friendly, and agile working opportunities
• Recognition and long service awards
• Fast Track physiotherapy
• Access to discounts and salary sacrifice schemes; including Cycle to Work, Car scheme, and discounts on travel, leisure, and retailers.

Applicants are advised to apply early as if a large number of applications are received for this post, we reserve the right to close the vacancy prior to the advertised date. Good luck with your application.

For more information please see the attached 'Additional Information for Applicants' document.

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.