Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist Community Therapy Service (Brighton and Hove)

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Senior physiotherapist to join our re-designed Community Therapy Service. (Including Community Therapy Hub and our in-reach bedded team)

Our multidisciplinary Community Therapy team provide a seven day service:

• A supported discharge service to facilitate timely hospital discharges which will be seen within 2 weeks as our target.
• Short term support for people who require assistance with activities of daily living
• A rehabilitation service, including a range of therapies
• Community rehab for people with long term conditions and frailty
• In-reach team to assess and provide rehabilitation programmes to patients that are admitted to the spot purchase bed in Brighton and Hove.
• Discharge planning with access visits to facilitate patients to transfer the care from nursing homes to their own homes.

Main duties of the job

Calling all registered Physiotherapists looking to join a forward-thinking team - you could be an essential part of one of our Therapy Hub teams in Sussex!

We are looking for someone (an experienced Band 5 or Band 6) with sound clinical skills to join our newly developed and expanding Community Therapy team. The post holder willassess, treat and monitor patients with long term conditions and frailty, as well as providing rehabilitation within their own homes. The post holder will need to have experience of working within a variety of clinical settings, particularly the community.

Therapists who have experience of working in teams alongside Band 3 and 4 unregistered staff and enjoys helping others to learn will be beneficial. The post is advertised as full time 1.0 wte . We will consider applications for any part time hours (at least 0.4 wte)/job sharing or compressed hours.

Due to the domiciliary nature of this post a full UK driving license and access to a car is essential. The post is subject to successful interview, references, DBS clearance and Occupational Health checks.

The post will involve:

This will include joint patient visits, liaison with staff at all levels, providing feedback and escalating concerns.

The post will involve working with patients with a wide variety of pathologies and medical conditions and will involve visiting patients in their own homes or in-reach to nursing homes.

About us

As a member of the team you will have the opportunity to:

• Receive support from other therapy colleagues
• Receive clinical supervision
• Participate in the in-service learning programme
• Attend the annual SCFT Leadership Conference
• Develop specialist areas of practice, relevant to the team
• Participate and assist in the implementation of the Calderdale Framework
• Supervise and support development of other staff outside of your professional group
• Develop leadership skills through formal and supported training
• Develop skills beyond the usual scope of practice of your profession
• Assist in shaping future clinical practice of the therapy team

Job description

Job responsibilities

This will include patients who have recently been discharged from hospital and those requiring help to improve their mobility and independence.

You will need to demonstrate good time management and organisational skills and be able to work under your own initiative in a busy environment.

We offer a high standard of in-service training and competency development to gain new skills, along with opportunities for career development. You will be well supported and encouraged to continuously develop your leadership skills through supervision and internal training opportunities and programmes to meet the needs of yourself and the service

Please contact Helen Lee (Therapy Operational Lead) helen.lee1@nhs.net or 07825 584941 for any further information and enquiries.

Person Specification

Qualifications and/or Professional Registration

Essential

• Professional qualification such as a degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council as a Physiotherapist.
• Evidence of relevant postgraduate courses / CPD and reflective practice relevant to clinical specialty
• Has Full UK driving license and access to own car

Desirable

• Training in student education
• Participated in service improvement project
• Familiar with outcome measures and use of TOMS
• Has experience in triaging incoming referrals

Skills and Knowledge

Essential

• Experience within specialism underpinned by theory and specific therapeutic knowledge
• Demonstrates competency in a range of clinical skills
• Experience of using assessment tools relevant to client group
• Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individuals
• Able to plan and prioritise own workload efficiently
• Ability to delegate work to others
• Demonstrates leadership in practice
• Good numeracy and literacy skills
• Promotes choice and independence in undertaking patient care
• Demonstrates advanced communication and negotiation skills
• Ability to demonstrate the application of research based practice
• IT literacy
• Knowledge of national policies and procedures relevant to the clinical setting
• Knowledge of clinical governance, clinical audit and risk management
• Supervision and appraisal of junior staff
• Knowledge of professional code of conduct
• Ability to demonstrate knowledge / understanding of boundaries of role
• Demonstrate ability to reflect and learn from situations
• Identifies difficulties as challenges and works with others to identify solutions
• Demonstrates co-operative team working and awareness of the roles of other professionals
• Demonstrates a commitment to learning and development with documented evidence of CPD

Other requirements

Essential

• Ability to travel
• Has community experience and transferrable skills

Experience

Essential

• 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
• Contributions to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
• Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems

Desirable

• Experience of triaging and caseload allocation

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Community Therapy Service B& H

Elm Grove

Brighton and Hove, East Sussex

BN2 3EW

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