Urgent Community Response - OT, Physiotherapist, Nurse, Paramedic

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

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider dedicated to delivering exceptional community care. As part of a dynamic team, you'll play a crucial role in the innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service, providing expert clinical interventions to support patients in their homes. This position offers the chance to develop your skills while working collaboratively with a diverse group of healthcare professionals. With a commitment to inclusion and professional growth, this role is perfect for those passionate about making a difference in their community. Embrace the opportunity to be part of a caring and supportive environment where your contributions truly matter.

Benefits

Flexible working opportunities

Generous annual leave entitlement

Pension scheme

Access to NHS discount schemes

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC.
• Experience in community/in-patient settings for a minimum of 2 years.

Responsibilities

• Provide triage and specialist assessment for patients.
• Undertake urgent community responses to prevent hospital admissions.
• Work with multi-disciplinary teams to ensure timely care.

Skills

Clinical assessment

Communication skills

Leadership

Partnership working

IT Skills

Report writing

Teaching skills

Education

Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy

Degree/Diploma in Occupational Therapy

Degree/Diploma in Nursing

Degree/Diploma in Paramedic Science

Tools

Electronic clinical systems

Job description

Urgent Community Response - OT, Physiotherapist, Nurse, Paramedic

Band 6

Main area: Community, Rapid Response, Admission avoidance

Grade: Band 6

Contract: Permanent

Hours:

• Full time
• Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (Shift patterns within the hours 8am to 8pm, 7 days per week)

Job ref: 434-CR6874467

Site: Aylesbury or High Wycombe

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

Salary period: Yearly

Closing: 05/01/2025 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 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 strive to be a family-friendly, inclusive employer.

Job overview

Are you a registered Nurse, Paramedic, OT or Physiotherapist?

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

• Your mission: To provide expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit squad that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary conveyance or hospitalisation.
• 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 William Rathbone House, Aylesbury (North Squad) and Chichester House, High Wycombe (South Squad) covering 7 locations across the county.
• Who are you? If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, and thrive as part of our UCR North Squad (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) / UCR South Squad (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter).

Main duties of the job

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers.
• Being responsible for undertaking an urgent community response to people in their own homes to prevent hospital conveyances and keeping patients safe at home with the appropriate clinical interventions.
• 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.

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?

• Learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• Flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension, and access to NHS discount schemes.
• 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 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 refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

Person specification

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

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

EXPERIENCE

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

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

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

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist.
• Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing, or Paramedic Science.
• Relevant post-graduate clinical training.
• Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.

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 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. 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.

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.