Band 6 Community Physiotherapist

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Band 6 Community Physiotherapist
Job Reference: 313-A-21-97868-SB
Employer: Department: Community Location: Oakham Salary: £31,365- £37,890
Can you demonstrate our values of Trust, Respect, Integrity and Compassion? Do you share in our ambition to create high quality, compassionate care and wellbeing for all?
Then take a step towards LPT...
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust (LPT) provides a range of community health, mental health and learning disability services for people of all ages. Delivered through over 100 settings from inpatient wards to out in the community, our 6,500 staff serves over 1m people living in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland.
Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is working with Adult Social Care across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (LLR) to deliver a newly commissioned Home First service offer alongside core Community Therapy.
We are looking for an enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapists to be part of the integrated health and social care team in Rutland. You will be embedded within the Rutland reablment team and will deliver high quality care to the residents of Rutland.
As a result of recent service changes there has been investment in therapy staffing, ensuring that services can be delivered by the right therapist, in the right place at the right time, and to ensure that the local population across LLR receive timely high quality therapy services. We have also recently been successfully announced in LLR as an accelerator site for the Ageing Well Programme - this is a really exciting time to be joining this newly formed service bringing together an integrated health and social care offer delivered by community-based nursing, therapy and adult social care teams.
This post will allow you to use your clinical physiotherapy skills to:
deliver high quality reablement, rehabilitation and recovery to people within their own homes within the community. provide urgent care to patients in crisis to help avoid unnecessary hospital admissions help people get home from hospital quickly and provide them with rehabilitation and reablement to help restore their health, wellbeing and independence
Do you have the ability to deliver similar high quality compassionate care and think you will be the right person to join our team which is already proven to make a difference?
The successful candidate will join our senior therapy team to provide high quality clinical physiotherapy interventions, advice and management and to support the senior leadership team in developing core and Home First therapy services across Community Health Services.
Applicants should have a broad range of knowledge and skills gained through prior band 5/6 experience and must be able to demonstrate their skills in supporting the clinical development and training of an established team of junior therapists and technical instructors in line with evidence based practice.
As a senior clinician you will be expected to maintain an independent caseload of patients as well as contributing to teaching and supervision of more junior colleagues.
The successful post holder will undertake day to day management of the a therapy caseload, and you will be encouraged to participate in service development, with regular supervision, teaching and peer support in line with your personal development plan.
Should you be successful, you will be encouraged and supported to grow your skillset, and to challenge the way we do things. We are looking for a determined and self-motivated individual who can make a difference to the care of patients from all backgrounds, and to promote therapy services within the trust.
We recognise the need to develop modern working practices to enable employees to maximise their performance and productivity whilst maintaining a good work life balance. To this aim the Trust has adopted an Agile working methodology as outlined within the Trust Agile working Policy.
The post advertised falls under the Trust’s Agile working methodology, so if successful you will be appointed as an Agile Worker, and will need to work to the Trusts Agile working policy. Talk to the recruiting manager about what this means in practice for you.
Car driving for this post is essential.
For more information please contact: Jane Rankin , Operational Lead for East North Hub Community Therapies on jane.rankin@leicspart.nhs.uk
We are committed to providing the best care that we can to our patients, and so some of our roles involve a Maths and English assessment. Where this is so, details will be shared with you as part of the recruitment process.
Details of our benefits, pledge and other important information about the application process, and working for us is contained in the documents linked to our advert.
For areas where our teams work to staffing rosters, rosters are set in advance at a team level and you will be joining an established roster. Your rostered shifts will be confirmed to you when arranging your start date. We will consider requests to vary working patterns in line with our flexible working policy.
To make the most of your application, we may consider successful applicants for vacancies for the same post in different locations where this is appropriate and meets our mutual requirements.
For all substantive roles the appointment of every new member of staff (excluding medical and dental staff) to a post is subject to a 6 month probationary period, details of which are in our Probation Policy.
We aim to develop a workforce that reflects our service users. To this end we actively implement equal opportunities in employment and service delivery and seek people who share our commitment. We strongly encourage applications from all sections of the community, particularly from underrepresented groups, including members of our black and minority ethnic communities. All jobs will require permission to work in the UK.
For all jobs the cost of undertaking a DBS disclosure at the required level will be met by the individual. This will be deducted from salary following commencement.
Requests from applicants to work alternative hours to those advertised may be considered.
Applicants who are currently ’at risk’ within the local NHS, and meeting essential criteria will be given preference for interview over any other candidates who may apply for this post.
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Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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