Urgent Community Response - Physiotherapist Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; High Wycombe; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking healthcare provider dedicated to delivering outstanding care in the community. As a registered Physiotherapist, you will play a vital role in our Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service, ensuring patients receive timely and effective clinical interventions in their homes. Collaborate with a dynamic team of healthcare professionals to empower patients and support their recovery, all while benefiting from a supportive work environment that values inclusion and professional development. This is an exciting opportunity to make a meaningful impact in the lives of individuals and communities.

Benefits

Generous annual leave

Pension scheme

NHS discount schemes

Learning and development opportunities

Flexible working opportunities

Health and wellbeing services

Qualifications

• Registered Physiotherapist with experience in urgent care.
• Strong leadership and care planning skills.

Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive assessments and evaluations of patients.
• Provide urgent community response to prevent hospitalizations.
• Work collaboratively with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Physiotherapy

Leadership

Care Planning

Clinical Interventions

Education

Registered Physiotherapist

Job description

Are you a registered Physiotherapist ?

Our Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Urgent Community Response squads.
• Your Role : To provide expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, multidisciplinary squad that reacts quickly when people are in crisis. Our target response time is under 2 hours
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary conveyance or hospitalisation.
• Your team : Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists and Healthcare Assistants. Urgent Response teams work closely with Intermediate Care staff to provide support to keep people at home wherever possible
• Our promise to you – we will support and invest in you to develop advanced skills relevant to the post

Your main duties include:
• Comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers within a 0-2 hour , 2-24 hour timeframe
• Being responsible for undertaking an urgent community response to people in their own homes to prevent hospital conveyances and keeping patient safe at home with the appropriate clinical interventions.
• 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.

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 quoting the vacancy reference number.


This advert closes on Tuesday 29 Apr 2025