Job summary
Opportunities have arisen for Band 5 Therapist 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 Discharge To Assess element is multi-professional services 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. This takes place within the persons home.
Main duties of the job
The Discharge to Assess element : 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 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. 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.
About us
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
Job description
Job responsibilities
Qualified Therapist. The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home Teams continually develop and enhance the seamless transfer of care from hospital discharge to usual residence, the successful candidate will therefore embody trust values, in supporting and facilitating safe discharge to individuals who are deemed medically optimised. The successful candidate will be passionate in providing community based interventions, demonstrating a high level of holistic care independently and as part of a team.
The Multi professional team consists of highly skilled, registered Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Trusted Assessors. Complementing our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior Support workers and Community Rehabilitation Support workers. The role may include community based care within patients homes with the 'Home First' approach or working within a bed based Discharge to Assess facility. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.
The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends and bank holidays. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with use of your own vehicle, business insurance and a full driving licence to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS and includes travel across the borough of Stockport.
We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training, furthermore CDP training is full supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions are provided, alongside peer support sessions in the form of multidisciplinary and profession specific team meetings. Competency based training will be provided for this role and you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with a broad skill mix.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. 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 £16.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Qualified Therapist. The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home Teams continually develop and enhance the seamless transfer of care from hospital discharge to usual residence, the successful candidate will therefore embody trust values, in supporting and facilitating safe discharge to individuals who are deemed medically optimised. The successful candidate will be passionate in providing community based interventions, demonstrating a high level of holistic care independently and as part of a team.
The Multi professional team consists of highly skilled, registered Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Trusted Assessors. Complementing our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior Support workers and Community Rehabilitation Support workers. The role may include community based care within patients homes with the 'Home First' approach or working within a bed based Discharge to Assess facility. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.
The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends and bank holidays. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with use of your own vehicle, business insurance and a full driving licence to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS and includes travel across the borough of Stockport.
We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training, furthermore CDP training is full supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions are provided, alongside peer support sessions in the form of multidisciplinary and profession specific team meetings. Competency based training will be provided for this role and you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with a broad skill mix.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. 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 £16.
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Hons. Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy or Masters degree in Rehabilitation with a licence to practise Physiotherapy.
- State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- UK driving licence
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio
Desirable
- Related academic attainment
- Attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Therapy issues relating to a wide range of conditions - theoretical, practical and professional.
- Basic knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
- Health, safety and risk awareness
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
- Basic knowledge of health legislation and current practice.
- Word processing and internet skills
- Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
- Knowledge of risk assessment and management.
- Knowledge of current best practice in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
Desirable
- Knowledge of working of community therapy and discharge pathways
- Group work skills
Experience
Essential
- Pre-reg placements or post reg experience relevant to this post.
- Ability to work as a member of an inter-professional team
- Documented evidence of continued professional development
- Contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants
Desirable
- Community Experience
- Clinical experience as a Band 5
- Participation in complex discharge planning
- Experience in conflict resolution
- Experience of working with individuals with cognitive impairments, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Basic analytical and problem solving skills
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to organise caseload and manage time effectively
- Ability to prioritise and problem solve.
- Ability to motivate and encourage reluctant and challenging patients, using negotiation and persuasion skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Good communication skills
- Pro-active approach to self-development able to seek supervision as required but act innovatively to apply new ideas with support if senior staff
- Good personal organisation skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
- Ability to lone work, work across sites and work subject to service demands
- Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives
- Positive approach to work, punctual and reliable
- Supports learning and development of self and others.
- Supports and promotes equality and diversity
Desirable
- Training and presentation skills
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to move and handle patients and carry equipment
- Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends if required.
- Flexible approach to work
- Car driver with use of car and business insurance to work across sites and locations
Person Specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential
- Hons. Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy or Masters degree in Rehabilitation with a licence to practise Physiotherapy.
- State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- UK driving licence
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio
Desirable
- Related academic attainment
- Attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations.
Knowledge
Essential
- Knowledge of Therapy issues relating to a wide range of conditions - theoretical, practical and professional.
- Basic knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
- Health, safety and risk awareness
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
- Basic knowledge of health legislation and current practice.
- Word processing and internet skills
- Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
- Knowledge of risk assessment and management.
- Knowledge of current best practice in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
Desirable
- Knowledge of working of community therapy and discharge pathways
- Group work skills
Experience
Essential
- Pre-reg placements or post reg experience relevant to this post.
- Ability to work as a member of an inter-professional team
- Documented evidence of continued professional development
- Contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants
Desirable
- Community Experience
- Clinical experience as a Band 5
- Participation in complex discharge planning
- Experience in conflict resolution
- Experience of working with individuals with cognitive impairments, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
Skills & Abilities
Essential
- Basic analytical and problem solving skills
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to organise caseload and manage time effectively
- Ability to prioritise and problem solve.
- Ability to motivate and encourage reluctant and challenging patients, using negotiation and persuasion skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Good communication skills
- Pro-active approach to self-development able to seek supervision as required but act innovatively to apply new ideas with support if senior staff
- Good personal organisation skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
- Ability to lone work, work across sites and work subject to service demands
- Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives
- Positive approach to work, punctual and reliable
- Supports learning and development of self and others.
- Supports and promotes equality and diversity
Desirable
- Training and presentation skills
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
Work Related Circumstances
Essential
- Ability to move and handle patients and carry equipment
- Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends if required.
- Flexible approach to work
- Car driver with use of car and business insurance to work across sites and locations
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).
