Urgent Community Response Team Physiotherapist

To lead in the delivery of high standards of Physiotherapy/Occupational therapist interventions to patients within their own place of residence to prevent avoidable admissions to acute care and to support discharges. Post holders will provide short term reablement/ rehabilitation programmes with effective short term goal setting. This will involve using health coaching skills to effectively engage with the patient and their family to ensure expectations are appropriately managed. The role requires flexibility, working across the following services; NEAT, Discharge to Access and Virtual ward to form part of the Urgent Care Response Team., As part of the Urgent Community Response (UCR), you will be required:o To work within the Urgent Community Response Team, to preventunnecessary admission to hospital.o To make risk assessments, establishing the safety or otherwise of a patient's ability to stay at home, or return safely from another care setting, providing and arranging as necessary supportive packages of care.o To work within the Urgent Community Response Team to assess andprescribe care pathways for patients in a crisis situation with long termconditions, the frail and elderly, palliative and end of life care and/orrehabilitation needs, to achieve quality of life and independence wherepossible.o To act as the patients advocate, facilitating choice and patient empowerment.o To provide evidence based clinical/therapeutic interventions based on 'best practice' in order to improve health outcomes and promote choice.o To provide in-reach to inpatient units and step up beds where required tosupport early discharge from
hospital.o To work with all health care professionals, and statutory/non statutoryagencies to provide a seamless, integrated service to our service users.o To triage referrals on a rotational basis for the Urgent Community Response Team.

Apply now to join an organisation that has been awarded an Outstanding rating by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), the highest possible rating and the first stand-alone NHS community trust in the country to be awarded the title.

The post holder will:1. Undertake mandatory training as required.2. Participate in a Personal Development Review process.3. Undertake Personal Development Plans for more junior staff members.4. Take part in clinical supervision as per Trust Policy.5. Follow Trust policies, and local procedures, and use discretion in interpreting them according to the setting and circumstances.6. Comment on draft policies.7. Ensure absence reporting is undertaken as determined by Team Leader and Trust Policy.8. Contribute to clinical audit as required.9. Complete the staff survey as required.10. Complete risk assessments and incident forms as required.