RRIC Advanced Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist - NHS

Be part of our BHT family

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust (BHT) is an integrated provider of acute hospital and community services for people living in Buckinghamshire and the surrounding area.

We care for over half a million patients every year:

• provide specialist spinal services at our world renowned National Spinal Injuries Centre at Stoke Mandeville Hospital, the birthplace of the Paralympics
• nationally recognised for urology and skin cancer services
• regional specialist centre for burns, plastic surgery, dermatology, stroke and cardiac services
• deliver community services in health centres, schools, patients’ own homes, community hospitals and community hubs.

More than 6,500 people from different nations, cultures and backgrounds work for us.

We would be happy to discuss possible flexible working options. We strive to be a family friendly, inclusive employer.

If you require any assistance in making this application, please contact [email protected] or phone 01494 734868.

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work – and invite you to join our BHT family.

Job overview

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our team.

• Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
• Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You’ll also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
• Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Paramedic, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioner or Healthcare Assistant.
• Who are we? We’re part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
• This vacancy is a permanent position in Aylesbury
• If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team – choose #MissionRRIC today.

Main duties of the job

#MissionRRIC

Your main duties include:

• Providing advanced skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant therapy case management, especially for those with complex needs and high risk of unplanned admission to hospital.
• Educating and supporting members of the multi-disciplinary team to intensively case manage these patients.
• Working with a range of professionals across the system in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge and reducing GP contact.
• Demonstrating your professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
• Engaging with RRIC Clinical Leads to offer and find ways for continuous service development and deputise for the Clinical Lead as needed.

Working for our organisation

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• As part of our BHT family, you’ll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
• We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
• We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

• We’re committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
• As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
• Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

• Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
• Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
• Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.

Person specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

• Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist / Paramedic or Registered Nurse with RCN
• Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
• Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3

• Recognised management/ leadership qualification
• Post graduate modules

EXPERIENCE

• Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence
• Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/case manager
• Leading complex care co-ordination
• Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
• Knowledge of manging cognitive impairment and mental well-being
• Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence
• Developing highly specialised programme of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
• Professional practice and leadership
• Managing care at end of life
• Experience of interagency and partnership working

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

• Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long-term/chronic disease management and palliative care
• Highly developed professional knowledge base supported by educational development and different work environment
• Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
• Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
• Highly developed general management practice, including organisation performance management finance, human resources and equality and diversity
• Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long-term conditions/end of life care
• Strong analytical and judgment skills, with the ability to interpret complex situation and make appropriate decisions
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Strong IT skills – including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Good presentation skills/public speaking
• Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
• Ability to work autonomously without supervision
• Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
• Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
• Patient Focused
• Responsive and flexible innovative approach to improving patient experience. Promotes service improvement
• Maximising Value Seeks opportunity to provide medium – long-term value. Addresses inefficiencies quickly. Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
• Achieving Results. Proactive, solutions focused attitude. Focuses self and team to deliver results. Provides clear goals and objective. Takes responsibility for resolving problems
• Inspired Leadership. Makes things happen. Motivates and nurture talent. Celebrate success. Manages underperformance. Promotes continuous learning
• Working Together. Promotes cohesion and team working. Work collaboratively with team within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy. Resolves conflict effectively. Assertive, honest and open

ADDITIONAL FACTORS

• Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire

PPE requirements: Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust requires all colleagues to wear appropriate personal protective equipment (PPE) in accordance with our infection prevention and control procedures.

COVID-19 and Flu vaccinations remain the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course our patients from the viruses when working in our healthcare settings. We encourage our staff to be vaccinated when recommended.

If you are successful at interview, we will require you to complete a Covid-19 risk assessment document.

Application deadline: This post will close on the closing date stated at midnight. If we receive a large number of applications or there is a change in circumstance, we may be required to close a job before to the closing date.

Application information: If you are offered a job, information will be transferred into the national NHS Electronic Staff Records system.

Shortlisting: The monitoring and safeguarding sections are not made visible to the shortlisting panel. The safeguarding section may be made visible to the interview panel, dependent on the role being recruited into.

Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.