Job Introduction
We have an exciting opportunity for a part time Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Urgent Care Response team!
The Urgent Care team provides a two-hour assessment and short-term intervention to prevent hospital admissions. This role involves comprehensive assessment and intervention under the guidance of clinical specialists, offering expert advice and managing complex patients within a virtual multidisciplinary team (MDT). After an initial assessment, a care plan is developed in consultation with the service user, who is encouraged to actively participate.
Our virtual MDT is made up of various healthcare professionals, collaborations with family, health and social care colleagues, and voluntary organisations to provide person-centred care.
This is a part time role working 33 hours across the week (fewer hours will be considered). You will be based primarily out of the Care Coordination Centre in Peasdown-St-John, the role covers the BaNES area and requires mobile and home working. Regular supervision and CPD are provided, with the possibility of rotational work with the acute trust or wider reablement teams.
The service operates from 8am to 8pm, seven days a week with the expectation of working 1 weekend per month and occasional bank holidays.
Main Responsibility
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist in the Urgent Care team you will:
- Conduct holistic assessments, implementing, and evaluating care programs for acutely and chronically unwell patients.
- Manage a caseload autonomously within the UCR pathways, using clinical reasoning to plan and evaluate patient-centred rehabilitation programs.
- Promote high-quality, harm-free care, and maintaining patient safety at home.
- Work within a multidisciplinary team to develop and deliver specialised services, sharing skills and knowledge.
- Conduct skilled assessments to formulate individualised treatment plans using evidence-based practices.
- Encourage independence and providing advice, education, and training to patients and carers.
Please see the attached job description for a full list of job responsibilities.
The Ideal Candidate
- Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy and registered with HCPC.
- Previous post-qualification experience in a health and social care environment within the physiotherapy/occupational therapy discipline.
- Community experience
- Depth of knowledge in physiotherapy/occupational therapy principles and practices.
- Ability to interpret and explain technical information to various audiences.
- Proven problem-solving skills and sound decision-making ability.
- Car driver with access to a vehicle and business insurance for independent travel within Bath and North East Somerset.
Package Description
As a Band 6 Physiotherapist, you’ll be part of our valued Urgent Care Response team in Peasedown St John.
You will feel valued as a Band 6 Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- Salary of £35,392 - £42,618 with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea and coffee at your base location
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.
As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.
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