Job Introduction
Package Description
As a Registered Physiotherapist Band 7 you will be part of our valued team based in Swindon Intermediate Care Centre (SwICC) receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
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Band 6 AfC Salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
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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
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Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
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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
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Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
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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
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The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Job Introduction
We are seeking an enthusiastic and experienced Band 7 Physiotherapist to join our Hospital at Home (H@H) Service in Swindon Intermediate Care Centre.
This is an exciting opportunity to play a key role in the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of adults with complex physical and functional needs, supporting recovery and promoting independence. Working as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will provide expert clinical leadership, deliver high-quality patient-centred care, and contribute to service development within a dynamic intermediate care setting.
We are looking for a motivated clinician with excellent assessment and decision-making skills who is passionate about achieving positive outcomes and supporting patients to return home safely and independently wherever possible.
If you are interested or would like further information please contact: Rachel Scott on [email protected] or Emma Williams on [email protected]
Recruitment Advisor: Louise Ledward on 07884 659608 or [email protected]
We are happy to answer any questions that you may have.
Main Responsibilities
The team will consist of colleagues in a combination of advanced practice clinical roles, registered and non-registered support roles from a range of disciplines. There is a staged recruitment plan aligned with the trajectories for increasing patient numbers within the Hospital at Home services. You will have close working relationships with internal colleagues in our Single Point of Access (SPA), Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, and wider community and acute services. You will also be involved in the development of patient pathways into, during and out of the service.
As a Senior AHP, you will provide clinical support for the assessment, management and treatment of patients in community settings with particular focus on those referred into the service from the 2-hour Urgent Community Response (UCR) initially and then develop wider referral pathways.
Working alongside BaNES, Swindon, Wiltshire (BSW) SPAs developing both push and pull models from 111/999 avoiding and reducing conveyances to an acute hospital & utilising Hospital at Home capacity.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and across the primary, secondary, acute and social care interfaces in Swindon, you will be responsible for coordinating the provision of specialist interventions to meet the urgent health care needs of people who would have traditionally been hospitalised or those requiring facilitated timely discharge from emergency departments.
You will demonstrate responsibility and accountability for the virtual ward clinical caseload and coordinate care across the whole patient/service user pathway
A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description.
Ideal Candidate
Essential
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Registered with the HCPC
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Educated to degree level
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Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification
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Independent prescribing qualification
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Patient assessment qualification (such as PACR)
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Significant previous experience in elderly care, frailty, community services or relevent acute care speciality
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Clinical and technical skills in managing a range of clincial conditions
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Proven skills in managing complex patient/service user caseloads
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Experience of working as part of a MDT
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Excellent written and verbal communication skills
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Abilty to confidently work autonomously and as part of a wider multidisciplinary team
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Strong judgement and analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex situations and make appropriate decisions
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Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
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Good IT skills and knowledge of clinical systems
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Clean driving licence
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Car driver, access to a vehicle for daily use
Desirable
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Experience of leading and managing a team
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Training in clinical supervision and/or leadership skills
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Involvement in relevant clinical interest groups
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Experience of clinical audit, research and understanding quality
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Experience in implementing change
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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