Job summary
- Main area
- Band 6 Physiotherapist Intermediate Care at Home and Discharge to Assess Team
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (7 day service 08.00-21.00)
- Job ref
- 362-A-24-6399643
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Regent House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £35,392 - £42,618 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 18/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Intermediate Care at Home & D2A Band 6 Physiotherapist
Band 6
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Permanent Posts within Stockport Foundation Trust Community.
Exciting opportunities within the Stockport Intermediate Care at Home and Discharge to Assess Team.
We need people who share our excitement, embrace different ways of working and are able to work flexibly across organisational boundaries. Opportunities have arisen for registered professionals – Band 6 to work flexibly within the Intermediate Care at Home and Discharge To Assess team.
The Discharge To Assess element is a multi-professional service who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community .We provide individualised care to meet the person’s needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies.
Main duties of the job
The Discharge to Assess element: 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 another community setting.
Assessment for longer-term care and support needs is then undertaken in the most appropriate setting and at the right time for the person. We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.
The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a 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. This role will require the post holder to be flexible to cover all areas within the Active Recovery and Discharge to Assess service covering 7 days 08.00-21.00.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
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 actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
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.
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
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be a qualified HCPC registered Physiotherapist. You will be working within a multi-professional team incorporating physiotherapists, occupational therapists, nurses, social workers and rehabilitation support workers, as well as liaising with other community health and social care teams.
The whole service provides a person centred approach, which can be provided in a client’s own home or in a designated residential care home.
The service is provided across 7 days a week covering core hours of 8 am – 9 pm.
You will be based at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS.
The successful candidate will be expected to work independently, but also as an integral member of the multidisciplinary team. You will be offered 1:1s and access to supervision peer support. The service promotes regular profession specific and MDT team meetings.
You will need to be a registered professional with an enthusiasm for working within the community with the ability to work flexibly between all aspects of the service. We place a great emphasis on training and personal development and will provide you with access to training and supervision. The candidate will be able to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning, excellent time management and advanced communication skills.
There will be support available from clinical leads. Lone working is an expected element within this community role with support from the Multidisciplinary team.
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment and promote safeguarding by implementing the Trust’s policies and procedures, acting promptly on concerns, communicating effectively and sharing information appropriately.
If successful this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £41.90. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary
In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £13.
Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • DipCOT/Degree in Physiotherapy
- • State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- • UK driving licence (will need use of a car for work purposes and business use insurance on commencement of post). Driver with daily access to a car
- • Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations
Desirable criteria
- Related academic attainment
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Physiotherapy issues relating to a wide range of conditions- theoretical, practical and professional
- Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Health, safety and risk awareness. Knowledge of Risk Assessment and management.
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
- Knowledge of health legislation and current practice. Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
- Evidence of clinical reasoning
Desirable criteria
- • Knowledge of working of community Physiotherapy and intermediate tier services
- • Completion of recognised relevant postgraduate courses.
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Experience of working as part of a therapy team and multidisciplinary team.
- • Experience of student or assistant supervision and clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants.
- • Experience of working with patients with dementing illness, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
- Experience of participation in complex discharge planning
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of community working
- Experience of conflict resolution
Skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- • Very good problem-solving abilities and ability to prioritise
- • Clinical reasoning skills
- • Ability to communicate with patients with complex needs and problems and to cope with aggressive or emotional behaviours.
- • Able to manage time effectively
- • Up-to-date in current issues around professional practice and evidence-based practice.
- • Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes.
- • Ability to work under pressure
- • Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
- • Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- • Ability to comprehend and work within the trust’s policies and procedures.
- • Competent IT skills
- • To be able to function independently and as part of a team.
- • Competent IT and presentation skills.
Desirable criteria
- • Ability to run internal/external courses. Evidence of participation in research.
Work related circumstances
Essential criteria
- Ability to move and handle patients
- Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends required.
- Driver with daily access to a car
- Ability to communicate with patients with complex needs and problems and to cope with aggressive or emotional behaviours.
- Ability to deal with sputum and other body fluids
- Occupational Health Clearance
- Mental effort to exert frequent concentration where work pattern is unpredictable
- May be exposed to highly unpleasant working condition/some exposure to hazards.
Desirable criteria
- Experience in conflict resolution
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Townley
- Job title
- Therapy Team Lead D2A/ Intermediate Care at Home
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 8356697
- Additional information
For further information please contact Rachel Townley or Michelle Mills, Therapy Team Leads on 0161 835 6691
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