Urgent Care Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist

Job overview

We are looking for a skilled Physio or Occupational Therapist to join our Urgent Care Team in Herne Bay.

Urgent Care Services brings together nurses, therapists, support workers, frailty specialists, GPs, consultants and advanced practitioners as one integrated team delivering urgent, specialist and proactive care across East Kent.

We provide rapid assessment and treatment to help people stay safely at home, prevent avoidable hospital admissions and support timely discharge. Working 24/7, 365 days a year, our services include urgent community response, rehabilitation and enablement, frailty crisis support, hospital‑at‑home care and virtual ward pathways using remote monitoring technology.

Urgent Care Services offers hospital level care in patient’s home including near‑patient testing, consultant‑led decision‑making and alternatives to acute admission, while also supporting PCN hubs, care homes and proactive comprehensive geriatric assessments.

Main duties of the job

Band 6 Health Care professionals (HCP) work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.

Band 6 HCPs are expected to be kind, responsive and professional, contributing to the quality of the services we provide by:

• Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
• Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
• Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering and working in partnership with them.
• Successful AHP candidates would be expected to be competent with basic venepuncture techniques within this post, training will be offered as needed.

Applicants will need to be flexible problem solvers, have excellent multidisciplinary working skills, and  demonstrate a positive interest in community based frailty care.

Applicants are strongly advised to e-mail Clinical lead Tim Wroot  [email protected] if they wish to discuss details of the role prior to application.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application. We are committed to supporting candidates with disabilities into employment. If you are unable to drive due to a disability, please contact the Recruitment Team via [email protected], quoting the vacancy reference number, so we can support you further.

The job description and person specification gives you all the information you need about this role. Please look carefully at the criteria in the person specification and tell us what you have done that shows you meet this in your application. If you need an application form in an alternative format please let our recruitment team know. All information you supply on your application should, to the best of your knowledge, be true and accurate.

Still have questions? The recruiting manager would love to hear from you, their contact details can be found in the job advert.

We can get a lot of applications for some roles so to be in with the best chance of being shortlisted please make sure you apply as soon as possible. A vacancy may close early if there is a lot of interest in the job.

At KCHFT we strongly encourage colleagues in clinical and non-clinical roles who have direct or social contact with patients to be fully vaccinated. In this way we will be doing all we can to ensure your safety and that of your colleagues and the patients we serve.

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