Senior Physiotherapist Band 7- CHSC

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Joining #TeamNELFT means you'll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We're CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.

The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.

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Job overview

We are looking for an experienced Band 7 Physio therapist to join our well established and integrated adult community rehabilitation team.

This is a part time role - 24 hours per week over 5 days.

Redbridge health and social care community service is a forward-thinking and innovative service that works in a fully integrated way, with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, district nurses, social services and community matrons all working side by side to ensure an integrated and holistic approach to the people accessing the community services.

Our community rehab team assesses housebound adults within their home environment. By assessing people within their home environment, we are in a good position to significantly improve people's quality of life and promote independence at home by providing therapy as well as by jointly working with social services, physiotherapists and the other members of our integrated team, making this a very rewarding job.

The post holder will achieve this by being an experienced Physiotherapist and would be responsible for managing routine and complex cases and support the clinical lead / team manager in the day-to-day running of the therapy team within CHSCS.

Looking to take the next step in your career? Are you an experienced band 7 physiotherapist passionate about rehabilitation?

Main duties of the job

To be actively involved in the day to day running of the CHSCS therapy team
Networking with other multi-disciplinary, statutory, private and voluntary organisations, users, carers and assisting in managing the interfaces between them

Recruitment and selection
Plan and provide local Induction and ensure trust induction standards are met
Workload prioritisation & planning within team

To be responsible for organising and prioritising own caseload, whilst able to work flexibly to meet the needs of their patients, relatives, carers and the service

Review and amend as appropriate clinical priorities, balancing patient related and professional demands, and ensure that these remain in accordance with the service policies
Providing regular supervision and performance management
Deputise for the team manager and or Locality Lead as required
Support the team manager in the effective management of the resources including all pay and non-pay expenditure, ensuring that accountability can be demonstrated for all financial actions

Working for our organisation

Starting with NELFT

NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop-in sessions focusing on engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.

Probationary Period

This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).

High-Cost Area Supplement

This post also attracts payment for High-Cost Area Supplement of 15% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £4,551 and a maximum payment of £5,735) pro rata for part time staff.

Certificates of Sponsorship

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please Job description and Person Specification which is attached to this job advertisement, interersted applicants are welcome to contact for more information about the role and/or visit.

Use of AI

Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.

Person specification

Qualification

Essential criteria

• Degree & a postgraduate degree in Physiotherapy or working towards MSc

Experience

Essential criteria

• To have a minimum of 3 years' experience working as a band 6 as Physio with community care experience
• Experience in all general, stroke and neuro rehabilitation

Experience

Essential criteria

• Experience of managing senior and junior staff, students and assistants

Desirable criteria

• Knowledge of health and social care integration
• Car driver and UK licence

Benefits

We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:

• A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff.
• A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a 'Top 10 Family Friendly Employer' from the Working Families Charity.
• Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors.
• Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that's a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.

Supporting our Armed Forces

We recognise the valuable contribution that the Armed Forces community make to our organisation. We have signed the Armed Forces Covenant and achieved Gold Award under the Armed Forces Employer Recognition Scheme. We have supportive policies, guaranteed interview schemes for veterans. reservists and military spouses and give additional leave to our Reservists so that they can attend their annual camp.

Equal opportunities employer

We are committed to equal opportunities and diversity and positively encourage applications from all sections of the community regardless of any protected characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident employer and have made the pledge to commit to employing more people with disabilities. If you require this application in another format i.e. Braille or audio tape please contact the recruitment team on 0300 300 1530 or email recruitment@nelft.nhs.uk.

Correspondence with us

You are advised to regularly check your emails (including any junk mail/spam folders) for correspondence related to this post.

In the event of a high number of responses to any advert, NELFT reserves the right to close the vacancy early. If you do not hear from us within three weeks of the closing date then please assume you have not been successful on this occasion.

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

• Job Discription CHSC Band 7 Therapy Lead (PDF, 375.9KB)
• Person Specification CHSC Band 7 Therapy Lead (PDF, 232.6KB)
• NELFT Application - Hints and Tips (PDF, 38.4KB)