Physiotherapist | Provide CIC

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Urgent Community Response Team Band 6 Senior Physiotherapist.

UCRT Mid & South Essex (MSE) has recently been featured in Regional TV news for its innovative work in admission avoidance. We have also been visited by the Secretary of State for Health to see our pioneering work.

We have now successfully secured funding to strengthen our service with senior physiotherapist and Occupational therapists roles.

Are you an experienced Physiotherapist with excellent communication skills, a passion for community care and team working? If so we would like to hear from you.

Do you have a desire for supporting patients, who are living with challenging health needs? Are you innovative, organised, dynamic, and self-motivated? Are you interested in developing new ways of working and committed to best practice? If so, this could be the opportunity you have been waiting for.

An exciting opportunity has arisen in Mid- Essex for an experienced band 6 Physiotherapist to join our vibrant multi-professional community Urgent Community Response Team (UCRT) Admission Avoidance Team. Every member of our team is focused and passionate about ensuring that all our patients receive the highest standards of care, which is delivered with dignity, respect and compassion.

Flexible working hours on a full-time basis are offered to ensure the service is covered. A valid, clean driving license and use of a vehicle is essential.

Community Therapy

Our team of Physiotherapists and Occupational therapist offer assessment and rehabilitation to patients predominantly within their own homes. We work with patients to identify rehabilitation goals, to improve independence and safety within everyday activities. We have a strong ethos of multi-disciplinary working and work closely with colleagues in the wider team to provide a patient centered, holistic approach.

The role of the UCRT therapist is to carry out rapid response functional assessments and interventions to support patients to remain safe and independent in their own home and support recovery. The post holders will need to have a high degree of professional autonomy and be able to make critical/clinical judgements using expert knowledge, skills and experience in order to provide a gold standard of holistic care including complex management to patients with both physical and mental health conditions as the Band 6, you will be responsible for working autonomously during shift, feeding back to Clinical Leads within UCRT. You will be expected to contribute to the service as a whole with MDTs, service development, supporting the trust and attend service meetings.

The post requires you to be able to carry equipment and travel though out the whole area commissioned.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people’s homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

We Expect Our Staff To Demonstrate And Uphold Our Values At All Times

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider.

Vision:Transforming Lives

Values:Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission:An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+ and Ethnic Minority Networks.

We welcome applicants from underrepresented groups. If you have the skills and experience for the job, please apply regardless of your background.

Eligible for NHS Pension

UCRT is a community admission avoidance service available 7 days a week (8am-8pm) that supports patients in crisis to stay at home rather than being transferred to an acute setting where possible. The UCRT team provides specialist Therapy interventions and nurse led care which has continued to demonstrate positive outcomes for patients and their families with regards to front facing, holistic, patient-centred care.

Regular professional supervision and CPD will be provided. The post holder will be well supported by the UCRT Therapy Lead, the nursing team, and community colleagues (including the Head Occupational Therapist). This post offers excellent opportunities for the candidate with regards to on-going professional and self-development, training (and access to further education.) Within the service we have Nurses, Paramedics, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Healthcare Assistants and we are supported by a Geriatric consultant.

Please attached JD and person spec for further details.

This advert closes on Friday 10 Feb 2023