Job summary
- Main area
- Community Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working
- Compressed hours
- Job ref
- 150-OM1097-EAS
- Employer
- Sussex Community NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Therapy Service B&H
- Town
- Brighton and Hove, East Sussex
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 Per Annum/pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 26/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Community Therapy Service- Senior Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job overview
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 will assess, 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.
Working for our organisation
We are the main provider of NHS community services across East and West Sussex. Our 6,000 staff serve a population of 1.3 million providing essential medical, nursing, and therapeutic care to adults and children.
Our Trust vision is to provide excellent care at the heart of the community, helping people plan, manage, adapt to changes in their health, supporting avoidable hospital admissions and reducing hospital stay times.
We have opportunities for everyone across our wide variety of services including medical, clinical, support and corporate services.
Why work for us?
- Positive 2023 NHS Staff Survey results, scoring highly in compassionate culture & leadership, and staff wellbeing support
- Variety of working environments across the community, in patients' homes, within our community hospitals and bases across the county
- Supportive flexible working patterns such as: part time, flexi time, annualised hours, and flexi retirement options
- Excellent training and development opportunities
- Research opportunities
- Cost-effective workplace nurseries in Crawley, Hove and Brighton
- Thriving BAME, Disability and Wellbeing, LGBT+ and Religion and Belief staff networks
- Level 3 accredited Disability Confident Leader, committed to creating inclusive workplaces
- Veteran Aware Trust, achieving accreditation from Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance (VCHA)
- Located in stunning Sussex, with easy access to the South Downs and the coast
- Access to a wide range of benefits and discounts for NHS staff
Detailed job description and main 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 Ruth Kearton (Therapy Operational Lead) [email protected] or (M) 01273 696011 x 6192 for any further information and enquiries.
If you have applied within the last six months and was not successful, please do not re-apply.
Person specification
Qualifications and/or Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- 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
- 2 years post graduate working experience in various settings including community
Desirable criteria
- 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 criteria
- 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 criteria
- Ability to travel
- Has community experience and transferrable skills
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
- Contributions to audit and evaluation within a clinical governance framework
- Experience of a range of caseload management and prioritisation systems
Desirable criteria
- Experience of triaging and caseload allocation
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Ruth Kearton
- Job title
- Therapy Operational Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01273 696011
- Additional information
Ext. 6192
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