In this autonomous role, you’ll have the chance to conduct comprehensive assessments, tailored rehabilitation programmes, and collaborate closely with various stakeholders to ensure each patient receives the best care. With your excellent communication and organisational skills, you’ll manage a diverse caseload while mentoring junior staff and students. Join us at Nottingham CityCare, where you not only advance your career but also contribute to a compassionate, evidence-based service that truly enriches lives. Your journey towards making a real impact in care begins here!
An opportunity has arisen for a highly skilled, enthusiastic, conscientious, experienced and motivated physiotherapist with a keen interest in the holistic working model, to join the Integrated Reablement Team, incorporating the Urgent Community Response Service, operating across Nottingham City.
The service consists of a multi-disciplinary team that includes Advanced Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Registered Medicine Technician, Assistant Practitioners, Rehabilitation Support Workers and administrative support. The aim of the MDT is to promote independence through rehabilitation and crisis management with citizens in their own home or within a short term care setting to prevent unnecessary hospital admissions and support timely hospital discharges.
We are a dynamic, developing organisation with well recognised rehabilitation services providing education, advice, support and rehabilitation for patients across health, social care, care homes and the independent sector.
An understanding of Health and Social care provision and ability to work closely with partner organisations and other stakeholders is essential. You will need excellent assessment and intervention skills in order to plan, develop and evaluate goal focussed rehabilitation and Reablement programmes, as well as complex discharge planning experience.
You will need to demonstrate high standards of evidence based clinical practice, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to prioritise your workload, manage your time effectively, and work flexibly within the team.
You will carry out profession specific, and holistic, assessments and evaluations as required to promote independence and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team; planning and developing goal focused rehabilitation/reablement programme for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs either in a community bed or in their own homes.
Within the team we also manage the community triage hub which facilitates all hospital discharges to our community rehab and assessment beds, and coordinates home discharges for patients who need short term support from the team.
You will use your clinical skills to triage referrals, liaise with wards, community bed staff and hospital discharge teams to facilitate timely discharges from the acute setting, and support the flow of patients through the system.
Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills are required, and you should be able to respond pragmatically to rapidly changing demands and circumstances
About us
Job Purpose
To work as required within the Urgent Community Response and Integrated reablement team, responding to health and social care referrals with the aim of preventing admission to hospital or a care home and promoting independence.
To work as an autonomous practitioner, you will undertake clinical triage to facilitate hospital discharges to a community bed or home (via Community Triage Hub/Transfer of Care hub) and comprehensive assessments to identify the appropriate service for the clients referred
To carry out profession specific, and holistic, assessments and evaluation as required.
To assist the multi-disciplinary team to plan and develop a goal focused rehabilitation/reablement programme for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs either in a community bed or in their own homes.
To be responsible for continuing the ongoing development of high standards of clinical practice with evidence-based focus.
Dimensions
- This post has no budgetary responsibility however the post holder is responsible for demonstrating cost consciousness.
- You may be required to work across different bases and community settings within Nottingham City
- You will be responsible for managing the triage caseload; You must have excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills, and be able to respond pragmatically to rapidly changing demands and circumstances.
- You will be required to participate actively in CityCares training requirements.
- You will supervise, educate and assess the competency of junior staff, support staff and students.
Key Responsibilities
You will need to demonstrate high standards of evidence based clinical practice, have excellent interpersonal and communication skills and be able to prioritise your workload, manage your time effectively, and work flexibly within the team.
You will carry out profession specific, and holistic, assessments and evaluations as required to promote independence and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions.You will be part of the multi-disciplinary team; planning and developing goal focused rehabilitation/reablement programme for adults with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs either in a community bed or in their own homes.
Within the team we also manage the community triage hub which facilitates all hospital discharges to our community rehab and assessment beds, and coordinates home discharges for patients who need short term support from the team.
You will use your clinical skills to triage referrals, liaise with wards, community bed staff and hospital discharge teams to facilitate timely discharges from the acute setting, and support the flow of patients through the system.
Excellent interpersonal, organisational and communication skills are required, and you should be able to respond pragmatically to rapidly changing demands and circumstances.
You will;
-Be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your work, including the management of clients in your care. To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the clients and work within your Professional Code of Conduct.
-Gain valid informed consent and to identify through assessment clients who lack capacity. To work within a legal framework with clients who lack the capacity to consent to treatment.
-Undertake advanced comprehensive assessment and evaluation of adults presenting with a wide variety of complex physical and mental health needs, utilising a high level of investigative and analytical skills.
-Be responsible for carrying a client caseload and to provide highly specialist clinical reasoning in assessing, devising and evaluating individualised rehabilitation programmes with clients.
-Be responsible for coordinating the safe and timely discharge process from a variety of community settings, including community beds.
-Risk assess, advise and where appropriate provide equipment including teaching clients / carers in its use
-Provide highly specialist advice, education and mentorship to the other staff and colleagues within the Reablement team and other multi-professional teams around current best practice and evidence based practice regarding the clinical management of clients. To drive quality, clinical service improvement and clinical excellence.
-Be responsible for your own continuing professional development keeping abreast of new trends and developments. Attend relevant conferences and training courses, supporting junior staff to do the same. Incorporate new developments into clinical practice.
-Participate in the supervision framework as a supervisee and a supervisor, including the appraisal process. To be able to set own objectives and evaluate own learning and that of more junior staff.
-Be a clinical educator for undergraduate students on University placements, supervising, educating and measuring their performance against the standards set by the degree level qualification.
-Maintain a high standard of care to clients and carers including accurate and detailed documentation
-Contribute to Clinical Governance agenda and apply Risk Management strategies.
-Support the Team Manager in implementing and evaluating targets and objectives to assist in the ongoing development of the whole service and contribute to implementation of service development and change as appropriate
-Ensure the health & safety of self and others at all times in accordance with Health & Safety legislation and City Care policy and procedures including following the Lone Worker Tracking procedure as applies to the team.
-Use information technology on a daily basis and participate in identified data collection and statistics and to maintain clear, concise and timely records in line with the service policy.
-Demonstrate flexibility, prioritise effectively and time manage self, supporting others to do the same. Be able to delegate appropriately.
-Act as duty clinician for the process of referrals
-Undertake any other duties which may be reasonably required
-Manage complex, sensitive and/or difficult information via a variety of means and may be required to deal with aggressive, emotional or people with mental health needs.
-Communicate effectively within the MDT, showing a comprehensive understanding of the roles of all the team members.
-Communicate effectively in various ways with a wide variety of people from diverse settings and backgrounds.
-Use advanced communication skills to manage conflict and gain co-operation to achieve the best outcomes.
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