Community Response Practitioner - OT or Physiotherapist inHigh Wycombe inHigh Wycombe PUBLISHED 2 DEC 2023

For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.

If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.

Are you a registered OT or Physiotherapist

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Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our Urgent Community Response North and/or South Squad.

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  Your mission:
  To provide triage expert clinical interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit squad that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
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  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.
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  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.
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  Who are we?
  We're part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in William Rathbone House, Aylesbury (North Squad) and Chichester House, High Wycombe (South Squad) covering 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
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  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 UCR North Squad (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) / UCR South Squad (including Amersham, Wycombe, Marlow and Chalfont St Peter)

Main duties of the job

Your main duties include:

• Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
• Being responsible for undertaking an urgent community response to people in their own homes to prevent hospital conveyances and keeping patient safe at home with the appropriate clinical interventions.
• Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the UCR Squad.
• 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