Physiotherapist - Community Home First Team

Job overview

We are offering an exciting opportunity as a Band 5 Physiotherapist to be part of the Home First service based in Leek with travel across North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.

The Home First Team, D2A (Discharge to Access) are an integrated clinical and care and support service that provides short term reablement intervention to enable people to maximise their independence and meet their health and social care needs.

The team also work to facilitate safe hospital discharges for patients leaving acute care, offer them nursing support in their own home environment and where possible, prevent hospital admissions. We pride ourselves on the delivery of quality care to community patients, many with complex needs.

This is a dynamic post which will be evaluated and adjusted to reflect the needs of the service, local population and feedback from users and staff. Your feedback and input will be essential to the development and shaping of the role.

Our team covers the whole of North Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent providing clinical support for patients in the community to either avoid potential hospital admissions or to support people returning home through the Discharge to Access pathway following a period of acute care.

You will be required to travel independently over a large geographical area to meet the needs of the service.

The service operates between the working hours of 09.00am – 18.00pm and you will be required to work shift patterns 5 days over a 7-day week

Main duties of the job

As a Band 5 Physiotherapist, you will work autonomously to provide physiotherapy assessments and treatments and manage their own caseload in a community setting and work closely with the multi-disciplinary teams/agencies.

As part of this role, you will be expected to:

• Address a range of care/support issues across the spectrum of conditions, reducing length of hospital admissions and improving health and wellbeing to allow patients to remain in their own homes.
• Use professional knowledge and judgment to take into account the range of care/support packages and treatment options available. To consider each service user’s personal circumstances and preferences.
• Work with individuals and carers who may find it difficult to engage with the service, or aspects of the service, resulting in uncooperative or challenging behaviour that requires management strategies.

• Use professional knowledge, skills and experience when working in changing environments and across professional boundaries.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see attached for the full job description and person specification.

Please note that the duties and role requirements are accurate at the time of creating this job description. However, it is anticipated that service developments may influence the role and require reasonable change/adjustments commensurate with the role.