Rotational Band 5 Physiotherapist

Are you a newly qualified or existing Band 5 physiotherapist wanting to gain experience of community working? Within LCHS we offer an exciting opportunity for a B5 Physio to join our team of rotational physiotherapists who are currently working in our wide range of services which can include:

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• Adult Therapy and Transitional Care
  
• Community Hospitals
  
• Lincolnshire Stroke Service
  
• Cardiac Rehabilitation
  
• Pulmonary Rehabilitation
  
• MSK outpatients
  
• Discharge to Assess
  

Services are county wide across Lincolnshire and base dependent upon each rotation. The first rotation for these 2 posts will likely sit within Adult community therapy. Our staff see people in their own homes, care homes, community rehab wards and clinics, working with individuals to support them to be the best they can be; following the Home First principles and providing care closer to home. This will provide you with a sound base of knowledge and experience to take forward in your career.

LCHS is committed to developing our staff with their training and learning and offers a wide range of opportunities to enhance your skills. If you are a newly qualified physiotherapist, we offer a robust preceptorship programme which is approached within an MDT setting. With a strong leadership structure to support your employment within LCHS, you will have mentorship, regular supervision and guidance and peer support available to you. The teams offer specialist holistic therapy assessments and intervention with the aim of maximising function and independence and therefore reducing the requirement for care services and supporting the ethos of physiotherapy. Care planning and patient‑centred goal setting is a fundamental part of the person's journey and integration with social care teams, nursing teams, and other stakeholders is essential. The teams also have a proactive approach with emphasis on self‑management of conditions, and empowering people to live well for longer.

As a band 5 Physiotherapist, you will have the opportunity to assess people with a wide variety of conditions such as post‑surgery and post‑stroke rehabilitation, falls and frailty and deteriorating long‑term conditions (e.g. Parkinson’s Disease and COPD) on your rotations. There will be an expectation that you will need to travel around the county on some rotations.

LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part‑time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.