Senior Community Physiotherapist

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week. Would you like to work as part of a dynamic, developing Integrated Community Team?

Across Gloucestershire we have had major investment in our Home First and Reablement Team and, as a result, we have an opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Team and be a key part of developing our therapy‑led service in the South Cotswolds. Our Team is based in Cirencester and works closely with the GP practices in the Primary Care Network, alongside our Adult Social Care colleagues and voluntary organisations in the locality.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in a very supportive integrated team, with access to training, regular supervision, annual appraisal and the autonomy to be a lead professional in our new service delivery. As you will be driving around the beautiful Cotswolds delivering our service, being a car driver is essential to the role. There might be opportunity for on‑site accommodation at Cirencester Hospital – please get in touch for details.

In line with the Government hospital discharge and community support policy, and the discharge to assess model, our Home First service is a time‑limited assessment service for people in their own homes to facilitate rapid discharge from Acute and Community hospitals. We also provide Reablement to patients in the community, to prevent hospital admission and to facilitate maximum independence, working on jointly agreed goals, promoting personalised care.

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5,000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

As a Physiotherapist you will be a key part of our team, providing assessment, goal planning and reviews, working alongside Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Reablement workers and rehabilitation assistants to enable our patients to gain their maximum level of independence in their own home. The caseload will be varied, ranging from rapid assessment to prevent hospital admission, Home First assessments to establish pathways of care following hospital admission, through to setting goals as part of a reablement pathway.

Essential Qualifications

• Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
• HCPC registration
• Driving licence and use of vehicle

Desirable Qualifications

• Membership to a relevant professional body e.g. CSP

Essential Experience – Length and/or Nature

• Broad range of clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas
• Experience of managing junior members of staff and rehabilitation assistants
• Evidence of working unsupervised
• Evidence of working across multi-disciplinary and multi-agency boundaries

Essential Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge

• Able to deliver community rehabilitation and treatment of patients with complex clinical presentations
• Demonstrates knowledge of Home First pathway

Desirable Professional / Managerial / Specialist Knowledge

• Experience of performance management

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and, as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled Worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

ICT, Cirencester Hospital
Tetbury Road
Cirencester
GL7 1UY

Website: https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/