Job overview
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Buckingham team.
Watch our RRIC team talk about their roles – and why you should join them: https://careers.buckshealthcare.nhs.uk/rric
- 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’ll 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’re part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county, including a North and a South Urgent Community Response Squad. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care.
- Who are you? If you’re committed to excellence, motivated by developing your clinical skills, driven by being at the cutting edge of healthcare delivery and thrive as part of our North Team (including Thame, Aylesbury and Buckingham) choose #MissionRRIC today.
Main duties of the job
#MissionRRIC
Your main duties include:
- Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review, case management and evaluation of the needs of patients and carers
- 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 pathways
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive list of responsibilities and duties, please kindly refer to the Job Description and Person Specification by downloading the JD and PS attachment in the advert.
If you are an internal applicant there is the option for secondment, all applicants must have the endorsement/support of their line manager prior to application.
If you have a disability that makes submitting this online application difficult and would like assistance, please contact us on [email protected] quoting the vacancy reference number.
Disclaimer: The trust reserves the right to close the vacancy early should we receive sufficient applications and therefore early submission is recommended. Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.
Person specification
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
- In depth experience of working within multi-agency/multi-disciplinary team
Desirable
- Experience participating in research or audit project.
- Experience of working in a community/in-patient setting for a minimum of 2 years post registration
- Experience of working with single assessment process.
- Experience of electronic clinical systems.
- Experience of day-to-day staff management e.g. case allocation to Health Care Assistants
Special Circumstances
Essential
- Valid and current driving licence and car to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire.
SKILLS, ABILITIES & KNOWLEDGE
Essential
- Demonstrate profession specific clinical assessment planning delivery and evaluation skills.
- Ability to motivate staff.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Self-Awareness
- Presentation skills
Desirable
- Ability to manage complex cases.
- Teaching patients, carers, and colleagues
- Presentation skills
- IT Skills.
- Report writing skills.
- Knowledge of modernisation agenda within the NHS and social care.
- Ability to develop and maintain partnership working.
- Knowledge of legal requirement for working with vulnerable adults and those who lack capacity.
EDUCATION, QUALIFICATIONS & TRAINING
Essential
- Registered Allied Healthcare Professional with HCPC - Occupational Therapist
- Degree/ Diploma in Occupational Therapy
- Experience of recent Continuous Professional Development.
- Relevant post graduate clinical training e.g. Elderly Long Term Conditions Respiratory Disease Cardiac Disease Trauma, Orthopaedics & End of Life
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This advert is for RRIC Community Practitioner - Occupational Therapist with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Aylesbury, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Occupational Therapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 15 Jul 2026.
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