RRIC Advanced Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist
Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
The closing date is 12 May 2025
Job summary
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our team.
Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles - and why you should join them: https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/rric
- Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
- 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.
- Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Paramedic, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioner or Healthcare Assistant.
- Who are we? We're part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
- This vacancy is a permanent position in Aylesbury
- 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 ateam - choose #MissionRRIC today.
Main duties of the job
#MissionRRIC
Your main duties include:
- Providingadvanced skilled, professional assessment of health needs and relevant therapy case management, especially for those with complex needs and high risk of unplanned admission to hospital.
- Educating and supporting members of the multi-disciplinary team to intensively case manage these patients.
- Working with a range of professionals across the system in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner with the aim of preventing hospital admission, supporting early discharge and reducing GP contact.
- Demonstrating your professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.
- Engaging with RRIC Clinical Leads to offer and find ways for continuous service development and deputise for the Clinical Lead as needed.
About us
Listen to why colleagues think we are a great place to work! -https://bit.ly/3DNEQfD
What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you'll benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile workingopportunities,alongside your NHS benefits ofgenerous annual leave entitlement, pension andaccess toNHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.
Why work for us?
- We'recommitted to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued, and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity withinourBHT familyimprovespositive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.
What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
Job description
Job responsibilities
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.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on bht.recruitment@nhs.net quoting the vacancy reference number.
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist / Paramedic or Registered Nurse with RCN
- Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
Desirable
- Recognised management/ leadership qualification
- Post graduate modules
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence
- Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/case manager
- Leading complex care co-ordination
- Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
- Knowledge of manging cognitive impairment and mental well-being
- Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence
- Developing highly specialised programme of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
- Professional practice and leadership
- Managing care at end of life
- Experience of interagency and partnership working
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long-term/chronic disease management and palliative care
- Highly developed professional knowledge base supported by educational development and different work environment
- Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
- Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
- Highly developed general management practice, including organisation performance management finance, human resources and equality and diversity
- Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long-term conditions/end of life care
- Strong analytical and judgment skills, with the ability to interpret complex situation and make appropriate decisions
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong IT skills - including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Good presentation skills/public speaking
- Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Patient Focused
- Responsive and flexible innovative approach to improving patient experience. Promotes service improvement
- Maximising Value Seeks opportunity to provide medium - long-term value. Addresses inefficiencies quickly. Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
- Achieving Results. Proactive, solutions focused attitude. Focuses self and team to deliver results. Provides clear goals and objective. Takes responsibility for resolving problems
- Inspired Leadership. Makes things happen. Motivates and nurture talent. Celebrate success. Manages underperformance. Promotes continuous learning
- Working Together. Promotes cohesion and team working. Work collaboratively with team within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy. Resolves conflict effectively. Assertive, honest and open
ADDITIONAL FACTORS
Essential
- Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire
Person Specification
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Physiotherapist / Occupational Therapist / Paramedic or Registered Nurse with RCN
- Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
- Recognised teaching or mentorship qualification equivalent to level 3
Desirable
- Recognised management/ leadership qualification
- Post graduate modules
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Relevant specialist/clinical experience and competence
- Experience of working as advanced clinical practitioner/case manager
- Leading complex care co-ordination
- Management of complex Long-Term Conditions
- Knowledge of manging cognitive impairment and mental well-being
- Supporting self-care, self-management and enabling independence
- Developing highly specialised programme of care, providing advice concerning treatment of patients
- Professional practice and leadership
- Managing care at end of life
- Experience of interagency and partnership working
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Highly specialist knowledge in managing patients in the community with complex medical needs, long-term/chronic disease management and palliative care
- Highly developed professional knowledge base supported by educational development and different work environment
- Knowledge of current political drivers, health and social care issues
- Specialist knowledge of governance and risk strategies and their application in a community setting
- Highly developed general management practice, including organisation performance management finance, human resources and equality and diversity
- Highly specialist clinical and technical skills in managing long-term conditions/end of life care
- Strong analytical and judgment skills, with the ability to interpret complex situation and make appropriate decisions
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build and maintain relationships with other health and social care professionals, patients, carers and the public
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Strong IT skills - including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Good presentation skills/public speaking
- Ability to plan and manage resources within allocated budget effectively
- Ability to work autonomously without supervision
- Ability to meet deadlines and work under pressure
- Ability to adapt to the demands of a constantly changing environment
- Patient Focused
- Responsive and flexible innovative approach to improving patient experience. Promotes service improvement
- Maximising Value Seeks opportunity to provide medium - long-term value. Addresses inefficiencies quickly. Evaluates and streamlines ways of working
- Achieving Results. Proactive, solutions focused attitude. Focuses self and team to deliver results. Provides clear goals and objective. Takes responsibility for resolving problems
- Inspired Leadership. Makes things happen. Motivates and nurture talent. Celebrate success. Manages underperformance. Promotes continuous learning
- Working Together. Promotes cohesion and team working. Work collaboratively with team within the Trust and across the Local Health Economy. Resolves conflict effectively. Assertive, honest and open
ADDITIONAL FACTORS
Essential
- Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
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).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
