Job overview
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Amersham team.
Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles – and why you should join them:
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 working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
Who are we? We’re part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
Who are you? 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 our North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) / South Team (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter)– choose #MissionRRIC today.
Main duties of the job
Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.
Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
Support the development of clinical pathways
Working for our organisation
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What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
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.
Why work for us?
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.
A keen supporter of the Armed Forces Community who know the value of employing a service leaver/veteran and their families.
What do we stand for?
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.
Person specification
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential criteria
Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential criteria
Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist
Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy
Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
Desirable criteria
Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
Demonstrate experience post or pre-registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists:- Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team
Experience of working with single assessment process.
Experience of electronic clinical systems.
Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
Desirable criteria
Experience participating in research or audit project.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential criteria
Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
Ability to manage complex cases.
Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
Ability to motivate staff.
Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Report writing skills.
IT Skills.
Presentation skills
Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
Self-Awareness
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.
I f 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.
Travel expenses: It is Trust policy that travel expenses for interview will not be reimbursed.
Smoking: All Trust sites are NO SMOKING. Smoking in all areas of the buildings and premises is prohibited.
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