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We are looking to appoint a committed, highly motivated, enthusiastic and skilled Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our dynamic, integrated multi- disciplinary Rapid Response Team (RRT).

This is an exciting opportunity to join and develop our integrated collaborative working between Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust and Bexley Adult Social Services.  Would you like to help us continue to improve our provision of health, social care and community support to the residents of Bexley?

RRT has been operational since 2013 and was one of the accelerator sites involved in the introduction and successful  roll out of  the NHS Urgent Community Response initiative.  RRT is a multi- professional team consisting of Nurses, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Social Workers. The team aims to respond to crisis referrals within 2 hours and avoid unnecessary presentation to hospital and residential care, by supporting community patients who are in crisis and preventing direct hospital admissions.

The team provide holistic health and social care assessments for people over the age 18 years, who are registered with a Bexley GP and live in the Borough of Bexley. The team are based at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Woolwich and operate 7 days a week, on an 8am-8pm basis, providing an urgent community response to vulnerable people in the community.

Main duties of the job

The Physiotherapist will work as a part of the multi-disciplinary Rapid Response Team to meet the needs of patients, ensuring the highest possible standards of practice. The post holder will be expected to deputise in the absence of the Deputy Managers for the clinical management of patients referred to the team.

The Rapid Response Team aims to prevent inappropriate admissions to acute hospital wards, prevent unnecessary Emergency Department attendances from the community, and facilitate early discharges from hospital by acting as the gateway to Community Services within the Borough of Bexley. The post holder will conduct specialist Physiotherapy assessments for patients in the community. The team provides an integrated multi-professional assessment of health and social care needs. The post holder will assess and lead on recommending admission to intermediate care facilities for rehabilitation or refer to integrated health and social care community services for appropriate intervention, community follow up and case management. The post holder will also provide equipment necessary to maintain clients at home when urgently required following assessment.

Working for our organisation

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children’s centres, schools and people’s homes.

We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary’s Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families.  This is strengthened by our new values:

• We’re Kind
• We’re Fair
• We Listen
• We Care