Job summary
***This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested***
Looking for a new opportunity to develop your skills in rehabilitation?Want to live in the youngest city in Europe? Truly cosmopolitan with a diverse population of over 1.1 million, Birmingham has the largest open space in Europe and fantastic network links to the rest of the UK.
Look no further, we have an exciting opportunity for you to join our EarlyIntervention Community Team within Birmingham Community Health Care NHS Foundation Trust, the largest community trust in the country.Part of a wider Early Intervention programme, which has so far delivered: 77000 fewer acute bed days used, 19000 fewer non-acute bed days and people spend 11.5 fewer days in the system. Overall having an impact of £25.8million saved for Birmingham to reinvest in Health and Social Care developments.
Main duties of the job
You will be joining a community team in the midst of one of the largest Health and Social Care transformations in the country, with exciting changes and developments, preventing avoidable hospital admissions, and facilitating early hospital discharge, plus the added bonus of Birmingham being a fantastic place to work and live.
A real opportunity to work within the self-motivated and aspirational MDT daily, we are currently looking for someone to dynamically lead and promote a culture of home first rehabilitation, so the people of Birmingham are treated in the right place at the right time, evidenced by clinical and performance outcomes.
About us
Be Part of Our Team...
BCHC has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehab Centre and one of Europe's leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.
If you want to 'Be Part of Our Team' and work with a Foundation Trust which is continuously striving for best care and healthy communities, we want to hear from you.
IMPORTANT
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- Please ensure all sections of the application form are completed fully. Please particularly ensure that you provide full details of all referees including business email address, telephone contact details and postal address
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings. A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.
We run an excellent Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.
HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles.The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days (8am 8pm)
Job description
Job responsibilities
Working multi-professionally, completing assessments and interventions, whilst ensuring the delivery of high quality intervention to patients within their own homes and other community settings. A person who is an excellent communicator with a flexible approach, and has existing, or an eagerness to establish, links with Health and Social care partners and a passion for 'trusted assessor' principles, will be at an advantage when working in this team. You will have opportunities to support junior staff and students, as well as drive and lead in service development projects and quality patient care.
We run an excellent Inspire leadership training programme for all staff with line management responsibility, alongside other opportunities to develop your career.
HCPC/NMC registrations are a requirement for registered staff roles.The post holder will be expected to work shifts as required over 7 days (8am 8pm)
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
- Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working in/with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team
- Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of people in a community setting.
- Proven Supervisory skills. Ability to plan and delegate daily workload
- Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical
Desirable
- Experience of working with other agencies.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the client group.
- Demonstrates a problem solving approach.
- IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
- Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
- Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence based practice. Understanding and application of the CSP code of Professional Conduct.
- Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
- Ability to administer and interpret standardise assessments/outcome measures.
- Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
- Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults. Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
- Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates clear and effective verbal and communicative skills
- Demonstrates ability to generate written communications which are concise, accurate, and legible
- Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from diverse social and cultural groups
- Able to work independently and delegate work to others appropriately
- Ability to develop and teach ongoing in-service training programmes to junior members of staff/students
- Ability to identify and action health promotion
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and apply standard setting/clinical audit and its relationship to research
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Flexible working approach to changing circumstances
- Organised approach to CPD
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Car driver
- Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
- Ability to work across various sites in Birmingham
Person Specification
Qualifications/Training
Essential
- Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
- Current Health and Care Professions Council registration.
- Extensive evidence of relevant post registration training and CPD.
Experience
Essential
- Evidence of working in/with the wider Multi-Disciplinary team
- Relevant rehabilitation experience for a variety of people in a community setting.
- Proven Supervisory skills. Ability to plan and delegate daily workload
- Ability to demonstrate and share knowledge and application of up to date evidence based clinical
Desirable
- Experience of working with other agencies.
Skills/Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of a range of appropriate assessment and treatment approaches for the client group.
- Demonstrates a problem solving approach.
- IT skills in Microsoft, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook.
- Understanding of the principles of Clinical Governance.
- Knowledge and application of clinical effectiveness and evidence based practice. Understanding and application of the CSP code of Professional Conduct.
- Knowledge and application of Health and Safety issues and their relevance in the Community.
- Ability to administer and interpret standardise assessments/outcome measures.
- Ability to act as mentor/supervisor to junior staff and students on placement.
- Awareness of legislation related to Safeguarding Vulnerable adults. Knowledge and awareness of current government and initiative drivers.
- Ability to safely handle patients and equipment and to work in a range of positions
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Demonstrates clear and effective verbal and communicative skills
- Demonstrates ability to generate written communications which are concise, accurate, and legible
- Demonstrates awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from diverse social and cultural groups
- Able to work independently and delegate work to others appropriately
- Ability to develop and teach ongoing in-service training programmes to junior members of staff/students
- Ability to identify and action health promotion
- Able to demonstrate knowledge and apply standard setting/clinical audit and its relationship to research
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance
- Flexible working approach to changing circumstances
- Organised approach to CPD
Other Job Requirements
Essential
- Car driver
- Willing to work flexible hours including weekends and Bank Holidays as part of a rota.
- Ability to work across various sites in Birmingham
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).
