Discharge to Assess Rotational Band 5 Physiotherapist

There is an opportunity a for Band 5 Physiotherapists to work flexibly across both Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home across community services.

The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home teams are an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional community team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in their usual residence. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.

This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport., The aim of Discharge to Assess is to support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or further assessment in a bed based community unit.We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence or discharge planning from a bed based unit. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.

The service isa free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. The service is for adults who have been assessed as medically stable and who do not require hospital care. This role will require the post holder to work flexibly within the Discharge to assess service.

The service covers 7 days, 8am - 9pm.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

Our mission is to make a difference every day. Our values are that we care, we respect, and we listen

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

The salary for the role is only one part of the excellent package of benefits we offer to you:

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays


• NHS pension scheme membership


• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further


• NHS Staff discounts


• Cycle to work scheme


• Salary finance - for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt


• Stockport Credit Union- for local financial advice