Job overview
It’s an exciting time for our Urgent Community Response (UCR) Service as we expand into the High Weald, Lewes, and the Havens (HWLH) area. We are recruiting to our new teams who will work with patients in their homes across the HWLH communities.
As part of our expansion, we are looking for Senior Physiotherapists to join us, so if you’re an ambitious, proactive, and experienced physiotherapist looking to be part of a supportive team and use your skills to provide excellent acute community care, we’d love to hear from you.
This is an amazing opportunity to become a member of the team as a senior physiotherapist working together to help patients stay in their homes, making sure they avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting them through the first few critical days after they leave hospital. The focus of this role is delivering essential holistic assessment and treatment to patients with acute, diverse needs across the area.
Main duties of the job
In this role, you will use your skills to undertake acute assessment, planning treatment and intervention for patients with a variety of conditions, identifying ongoing needs and making appropriate onward referrals to our partners.
You will be part of the co-ordination of the multidisciplinary team through the allocation of visits. You will also support the clinical and operational leads in the supervision and development of colleagues and can develop your clinical and non-clinical capabilities across the four pillars of practice.
You will need to able to drive with a full UK licence due to the geographic area covered by the team.
Working for our organisation
Why work for us?
Positive 2021 NHS Staff Survey results with compassionate culture and leadership, and support for staff wellbeing, scoring highly
Rated ‘Good’ with ‘Outstanding’ features by the Care Quality Commission (CQC)
Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
A great variety of working environments, in the community, in patients’ homes and in our community hospitals
Excellent training and development opportunities
Real Living Wage Employer, with great rates of pay
Supportive flexible working patterns such as part time, flexi time, annualised hours etc.
Supportive team environments
Cost-effective and convenient workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
Accredited Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
We are a multidisciplinary team working flexibly to provide a seven-day service, 365 days a year, between 8am and 8pm. We deliver:
A rapid response to people in the community who are experiencing acute episodes of ill-health.
A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges.
Acute reablement for up to 10 days, supporting people to achieve functional goals and work towards independence with activities of daily living.
The team works closely with other services within Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust, as well as our acute and community partners, GPs, South East Coast Ambulance Service (SECAmb), adult social care and voluntary and third sector organisations.
Further information is available in the attached job description and person specification.
If you would like to discuss this role or find out more, you can contact our Operational Team Leads, Jacqui Hilder and Jessica Poulton, by emailing -rs- .
Person specification
Qualifications and Professional Registration
Essential criteria
Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy or Occupational Therapy.
Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist or Occupational Therapist.
Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical speciality
Desirable criteria
Training in student education
Experience
Essential criteria
Substantial relevant post-qualification experience covering a broad range
Experience of working within a relevant specialist area
Experience of interdisciplinary working
Experience of supervising junior staff, assistants and students
Experience of independently managing a clinical caseload
Experience at contributing to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria
Able to demonstrate competency in a range of clinical skills
Able to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
Able to delegate work to others
Able to demonstrate leadership in practice
Good numeracy, literacy and IT skills
Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
Able to demonstrate advanced communication and negotiation skills
Able to demonstrate the application of research based practice
Up to date knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
Up to date knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
Able to give supervision and appraisal of junior staff
Up to date knowledge of professional code of conduct
Able to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
Able to demonstrate how to reflect and learn from situations and identify difficulties as challenges to then work with others to identify solutions
Able to demonstrate co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
Able to demonstrate a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
Car driver (Valid Driving License for use in the UK)
Willingness to undertake training to develop within the role
Desirable criteria
Flexible working
Access to a vehicle for work purposes
This post may close earlier than the published closing date if sufficient applications are received.
Correspondence relating to this vacancy will be conducted electronically. If you have not heard from us within two weeks please assume that your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. Please ensure that you check your emails, including your junk folder, on a regular basis. References will be requested electronically as well; please ensure you provide correct contact details for referees.
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