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We are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our dynamic, integrated multi- disciplinary Rapid Response Team (RRT).

This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop our integrated collaborative working between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Bexley Adult Social Services. Would you like to help us continue to improve our provision of health, social care and community support to the residents of Bexley?

RRT has been operational since 2013 and was one of the accelerator sites involved in the introduction and successful roll out of the NHS Urgent Community Response initiative. RRT is a multi- professional team consisting of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers. The team aims to respond to crisis referrals within 2 hours and avoid unnecessary presentation to hospital and residential care, by supporting community patients who are in crisis and preventing direct hospital admissions.

The team provide holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and live in the Borough of Bexley. The team are based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich and operate 7 days a week, on an 8am-8pm basis, providing an urgent community response to vulnerable people in the community.

Main duties of the job

The Physiotherapist will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team to meet the needs of patients, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice. The post holder will be expected to deputise in the absence of the Deputy Managers for the clinical management of patients referred to the team.

The Rapid Response Team aims to prevent inappropriate admissions to acute hospital wards, prevent unnecessary Emergency Department attendances from the community, and facilitate early discharges from hospital by acting as the gateway to Community Services within the Borough of Bexley. The post holder will conduct specialist Physiotherapy assessments for patients in the community. The team provides an integrated multi-professional assessment of health and social care needs. The post holder will assess and lead on recommending admission to intermediate care facilities for rehabilitation or refer to integrated health and social care community services for appropriate intervention, community follow up and case management. The post holder will also provide equipment necessary to maintain clients at home when urgently required following assessment.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Job description

Job responsibilities

Demonstrate specialist theoretical knowledge of complex acute and long-term pathologies and impairments in the assessment of patients.

Work closely with other health professionals and social servicesand provide specialist Physiotherapy advice in meeting the needs of the clients.

Conduct a thorough holistic assessment of clients, obtaining consent in accordance with professional guidelines and local team procedures.

Recommend appropriate Physiotherapy interventions topromote independence and safety, utilising effective clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based practice.

Complete individual plans of care for patients who require input from integrated community services bed-based or home-based rehabilitation input.

Maintain effective multidisciplinary communicationwith other members of the team and the wider clinical network to ensure that clients needs are met.

Providespecialist Physiotherapy advice and support to client, carers and relatives based on clinical evidence and reasoning.

To use specialist knowledge to inform sound clinical judgements/decision making for case management

Ensure safe, appropriate and effective provision, installation and demonstration of equipment.

Participate in and when appropriate lead MDT meetings and complex family conferences.

Ensure management of clinical risk with complex patients, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.

To be able to identify when and how to terminate involvement or refer onwards to appropriate teams/services and completeinput in a timely, seamless manner.

Seek guidance from moreexperienced colleagues when required.

Person Specification

Qualification

Essential

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• UK HPC Registration
• Evidence of CPPD activities

Desirable

• Specialist training to Postgraduate Diploma level
• Evidenced of CPPD activities relevant to the role

Experience

Essential

• Post registration experience of at least 2 years working in either community health or an acute setting, with complex cases as an autonomous practitioner.
• Experience of working with a wide range of complex conditions, providing specialist interventions using advanced clinical reasoning skills and theoretical knowledge.

Desirable

• Experience in elderly care/intermediate care/community care
• NHS experience

Skills

Essential

• Excellent written, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Ability to overcome barriers to communication with patients and cares and demonstrate ability to impart complex, sensitive and contentious information

Desirable

• Demonstrates an ability to undertake falls assessments
• Demonstrates an ability to undertake neurological assessments
• Demonstrates an ability to undertake respiratory assessments
• Demonstrates an ability to undertake MSK assessments

Knowledge

Essential

• Detailed knowledge of relevant legislation and current practice
• Knowledge of current Physiotherapy literature, frames of reference and models of intervention

Desirable

• Knowledge and evidence of NHS and Social care collaborative working (identifying and raising safeguarding's and highlighting the need for care packages)

Car Driver

Essential

• Use of a car for work
• UK driving Licence

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

Woolwich

SE18 4QH

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277-6394950-CPH-A