RRIC Community Practitioner – Physiotherapist: Sponsorship Available

Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Job summary

RRIC: join our team

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service works across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Amersham Team

  • Your mission: To provide expert interventions and rehabilitation as part of a dynamic, tight-knit team that reacts quickly when people are in crisis.
  • Your aim: To help patients stay in their own home, empowering recovery and preventing unnecessary hospitalisation. You will also support early discharge from hospital and patients at the end of life.
  • Your role: Add your expertise to our multi-disciplinary community team working with Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Nurses, Specialist Paramedics, Paramedics, Pharmacists, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioners or Healthcare Assistants.
  • Who are we? We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
  • Who are you? If you are committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of a team

Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended.

Main duties of the job

Your main duties include:

  • Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers using your OT skills and experience
  • Being responsible for planning programmes of care to promote health gain and maximise independence, actively case managing patients through their journeys
  • Allocating appropriate workloads to members of the Rapid Response & Intermediate Care (RRIC) team
  • Working with a range of professionals in order to ensure care is appropriate and delivered in a timely manner.Demonstrating professional skills and competence in leadership, care planning / co-ordination, and care and treatment delivery.Support the development of clinical pathway

Person Specification

EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING

Essential

  • Registered Healthcare Professional with HCPC or RCN registration – Physiotherapist Occupational Therapist Nurse
  • Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy Occupational Therapy Nursing Paramedic Science
  • Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development
  • Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Advanced History Taking & Assessment Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Demonstrate experience post or pre registration placements in relevant clinical areas for therapists: – Care of Elderly Orthopaedics Neurology Respiratory Palliative Care Long term conditions
  • Experience of working in an NHS community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
  • In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team

Desirable

  • Experience of working with NHS or Adult Social Care single assessment process
  • Experience of electronic clinical systems
  • Experience participating in research or audit project
  • Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants

SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
  • Ability to motivate staff
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Self-Awareness

Desirable

  • Ability to manage complex cases
  • Ability to develop and maintain partnership working
  • Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
  • Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care
  • Report writing skills
  • IT Skills
  • Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues

SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES

Essential

  • Valid and current UK driving licence and car with Business Insurance to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Closing Date: 11 October 2026

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