Job overview
Mission RRIC: join our team
Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire – and we need you to join our Marlow Team working across Intermediate Care and Community Physiotherapy.
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 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, including two Urgent Community Response Squads. Together we operate as one mission force, 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 – choose #MissionRRIC today
Please note: Previous applicants need not apply.
Main duties of the job
#Mission RRIC
Your main duties include:
- Providing triage, comprehensive specialist assessment, review 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
- Working across Intermediate care and Community Physiotherapy 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.
Person specification
EXPERIENCE
Essential
- Demonstrate experience post or preregistration 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
- Experience of working with NHS or Adult Social Care single assessment process
Desirable
- 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
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Essential
- Valid and current UK driving licence and car with Business Insurance to be able to travel to locations throughout Buckinghamshire
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
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This advert is for RRIC Community Practitioner - Physiotherapist with Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust in Aylesbury, South East, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum - pro rata for part time. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 23 Jul 2026.
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