Urgent Community Response - Staff Nurse Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

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

Job summary

An established healthcare provider is seeking a dedicated Physiotherapist to join their dynamic Urgent Community Response team. In this pivotal role, you will deliver expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation, ensuring patients receive timely care in their homes. You'll work alongside a diverse team of professionals, enhancing your skills while making a significant impact on patient outcomes. With a commitment to supporting your professional growth, this organization offers a supportive environment where your contributions are valued. If you are passionate about empowering patients and promoting recovery, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Annual Leave

Pension Scheme

NHS Discount Schemes

Flexible Working Opportunities

Health and Wellbeing Services

Qualifications

• Registered Physiotherapist with experience in urgent care.
• Ability to work effectively in a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Conduct specialist assessments and evaluations for patients.
• Provide urgent community responses to prevent hospital admissions.
• Collaborate with healthcare professionals for timely care delivery.

Skills

Physiotherapy

Clinical Assessment

Leadership Skills

Care Planning

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

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 homes, 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

1. Comprehensive specialist assessment, review, and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers within a 0-2 hour, 2-24 hour timeframe.
2. Undertaking an urgent community response to people in their own homes to prevent hospital conveyances and keep patients safe at home with appropriate clinical interventions.
3. Working with a range of professionals to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
4. Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning/co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
5. Supporting 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 NHS benefits such as generous annual leave, 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 are committed to promoting inclusion and ensuring all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds.

We aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues are treated with dignity and respect.

Greater diversity within our BHT family improves outcomes for the 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 detailed responsibilities and duties, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification available as attachments in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant, secondment options are available; all applicants must have line manager support prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes online application difficult and require assistance, please contact us quoting the vacancy reference number.

This advert closes on Wednesday 14 May 2025.