B6 Physiotherapist Community

Job summary

• Halton Community Therapy Team (HCTT) is a small, but perfectly formed team of currently 11 individuals; you will make us 12. We are Physios & OTs, supported by our own Admin & Assistants working exclusively on the Community.
• HCTT is based at Halton General Hospital; our patch covers the Borough of Halton (population 129,000) which encompasses the towns of Runcorn & Widnes and includes a few of our local outlying villages that sit within Halton.
• HCTT are an Adult (over 18s) Rehab team which assesses & treats a wide variety of conditions including Neurological, Orthopaedic, Rheumatological, Arthritic, Palliative patients, Fallers & Frailty, Amputees, and generic mobility dysfunctions.
• Referrals are taken from Primary Care EG: GPs, Therapists, Macmillan Nurses, Community Matrons and other specific Nursing teams - and also from Consultant led teams or Therapists from our partners in Secondary care at surrounding Hospitals.
• Our raison d'etre is providing high quality Rehab to patients within their own home; which may include Care Home, thus resulting in therapy gains and improvements to quality of life; and where the knock on effect is reducing the risk of admission to hospital as well as facilitating discharge where appropriate.

Main duties of the job

• To assess & treat patients within their own home, referred with a wide variety of conditions.
• Along with our existing part time B6 Physio to take the lead role in the supervision of students within the service.
• To contribute to the supervision of B5 or Assistant grades of staff.
• To contribute to Clinical Audit and to other forms of Service Development, as appropriate.

About us

Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is a caring and compassionate organisation that is both ambitious and innovative. We are committed to delivering the best outcomes for our patients and providing a positive experience of our staff. We aspire to be outstanding for our patients, our communities and our staff and are committed to being a great place to receive healthcare, work and learn.

Straddling the neighbouring boroughs of Warrington and Halton we are part of the Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care system. Our hospitals are ideally situated to meet the growing healthcare needs of the 330,000 population of these boroughs.

Warrington Hospital is home to our emergency, critical care and maternity services, Halton Hospital is focused on elective procedures and the Runcorn Urgent Treatment Centre, although many services are offered at both sites and in community hubs.

A CQC-rated 'good' organisation with 'outstanding' features, we are working towards university hospital status, having achieved teaching hospital status in 2019.

Our workforce of nearly 5,000 across both sites comprises more than 50 nationalities. We strive to be an equal, diverse and inclusive employer, which is recognised as a pioneer in its equality, diversity and inclusion work. The Trust is proud to have achieved numerous external accreditations and is working towards achieving the Anti-Racist Organisation Framework, recognising the importance of anti-racism in all that we do.