Physiotherapist - REACT

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 06 April 2025

Job summary

An exciting opportunity has risen for enthusiastic and motivated individuals to join our Reactive Emergency Assessment Community Team (REACT) as a Band 7 Physiotherapist. The REACT team is a multi-disciplinary integrated community service within ESNEFT incorporating, Urgent Community Response service, OPAT (Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotics Therapy), OOHs (Out of Hours) and Virtual Ward pathways patients. This role will be working for our Urgent Community Response Team which has developed pathways with East of England Ambulance Service and the Frailty Virtual Ward, two new and exciting government initiatives.

Our team delivers excellent patient focused care to patients in Ipswich and the East Suffolk community. Could you be a valued key member of our team?

The role will be for up to 37.5 hours per week, including weekdays & weekends.

Staff are expected to work 8am to 8pm shifts across the week.

Main duties of the job

The purpose of this role is to provide highly skilled Physiotherapy within REACT. This role will have specific links with East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, Ipswich Emergency Department and Community stakeholders. The post holder will:

Provide skilled Physiotherapy clinical expertise with specialised knowledge in admission avoidance, frailty and caring for the older person in the community.

To provide professional leadership involving recruitment, supervision, appraisal and support and development of staff

Provide excellent shift leadership skills ensuring patient flow and optimising staffing capacity to reach the patient demand.

To promote high standards of professional practice and the leadership of delivery of quality care.

Plan and provide highly specialised training/education programmes for nurses, therapists, and other disciplines in relation to admission avoidance.

Maintain a high level of awareness of relevant research trends and national recommendations regarding admission avoidance and older person's care/frailty and admission avoidance.

To be responsible and accountable for ensuring the REACT team complies with clinical governance and quality.

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are the largest NHS organisation in East Anglia, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

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Date posted

21 March 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

432-HR2428-24

Job locations

Constantine House

5 Constantine Road

Ipswich

IP1 2DH

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Job description

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Physiotherapist
Teaching & Assessing qualification and experience or equivalent

Desirable

Certificated clinical assessment skills
Desire to study at Masters level
Management/leadership qualification

Knowlege & Experience

Essential

Variety of clinical experience within the acute, community or emergency services sector with proven years' experience.
Complex caseload management, prioritisation, and discharge planning.
An excellent knowledge of Urgent Community Response
Experience with operational management and strategic service development
Experience facilitating training and education
Demonstrates knowledge of the pressure of EEAST, the UCR teams and structures in the Integrated Care System
Demonstrable specialist knowledge of admission avoidance
Knowledge of national and international guidelines relevant to the role

Desirable

Physiotherapy leadership role
Multi-agency project leadership
Knowledge and application of research methodologies

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal & written communication skills
Ability to work alone or as team player
Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
Commitment to self-development
UK Drivers Licence

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Registered Physiotherapist
Teaching & Assessing qualification and experience or equivalent

Desirable

Certificated clinical assessment skills
Desire to study at Masters level
Management/leadership qualification

Knowlege & Experience

Essential

Variety of clinical experience within the acute, community or emergency services sector with proven years' experience.
Complex caseload management, prioritisation, and discharge planning.
An excellent knowledge of Urgent Community Response
Experience with operational management and strategic service development
Experience facilitating training and education
Demonstrates knowledge of the pressure of EEAST, the UCR teams and structures in the Integrated Care System
Demonstrable specialist knowledge of admission avoidance
Knowledge of national and international guidelines relevant to the role

Desirable

Physiotherapy leadership role
Multi-agency project leadership
Knowledge and application of research methodologies

Skills

Essential

Excellent verbal & written communication skills
Ability to work alone or as team player
Ability to analyse and solve complex problems
Commitment to self-development
UK Drivers Licence

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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 (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).