Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 432-HR2428-24
- Employer
- East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Constantine House
- Town
- Ipswich
- Salary
- £46,148 - £52,809 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/04/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Physiotherapist - REACT
NHS AfC: Band 7
We are one of the largest NHS organisation in England. Our scale provides exciting opportunities for development, innovation, research, education and training.
Talk to us about our range of flexible working opportunities, apprenticeships and staff benefits
Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) is at the heart of all we do; and it forms part of the ESNEFT’s core activities. The Trust operates and relies on everyone treating each other with dignity and respect, to receive equitable and fair treatment in the implementation of Policies, Procedures and in its Practices, to foster positive work relationships, and finally to act with integrity as a professional within ESNEFT as well as a representative of the NHS as a whole. The EDI Agenda reflects the Trust values such as Optimistic, Appreciative and Kind. In line with the NHS Long Term Plan, People Plan, People Promise and a Model Employer intrinsic in the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Agenda, we consistently strive to improve, to take the learning into Action for a better ESNEFT.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Band 7 Physiotherapist. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating, Urgent Community Response service, OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients. This role will be working for our Urgent Community Response Team which has developed pathways with East of England Ambulance Service and the Frailty Virtual Ward, two new and exciting government initiatives.
Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in Ipswich and the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team?
The role will be for up to 37.5 hours per week, including weekdays & weekends.
Staff are expected to work 8am to 8pm shifts across the week.
Main duties of the job
The purpose of this role is to provide highly skilled Physiotherapy within REACT. This role will have specific links with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ipswich Emergency Department and Community stakeholders. The post holder will:
- Provide skilled Physiotherapy clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community.
- To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff
- Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand.
- To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care.
- Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance.
- Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older person’s care/frailty and admission avoidance.
- To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.
Working for our organisation
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Registered Physiotherapist
- Teaching & Assessing qualification and experience or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Certificated clinical assessment skills
- Desire to study at Masters level
- Management/leadership qualification
Knowlege & Experience
Essential criteria
- Variety of clinical experience within the acute, community or emergency services sector with proven years’ experience.
- Complex caseload management, prioritisation, and discharge planning.
- An excellent knowledge of Urgent Community Response
- Experience with operational management and strategic service development
- Experience facilitating training and education
- Demonstrates knowledge of the pressure of EEAST, the UCR teams and structures in the Integrated Care System
- Demonstrable specialist knowledge of admission avoidance
- Knowledge of national and international guidelines relevant to the role
Desirable criteria
- Physiotherapy leadership role
- Multi-agency project leadership
- Knowledge and application of research methodologies
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent verbal & written communication skills
- Ability to work alone or as team player
- Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
- Commitment to self-development
- UK Drivers Licence
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
- Sam Bilotta
- Job title
- Assistant General Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07593521962
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