About this role
Job summary
An exciting 12-month opportunity has arisen within CNWL Foundation Trust's Rapid Access Services (RAS) team. This role offers the chance to develop advanced clinical and leadership skills within a dynamic multidisciplinary service delivering integrated community healthcare.
RAS works closely with acute trusts, social care and third-sector partners to provide acute care in the community, helping people remain safely at home, preventing unnecessary hospital admissions and supporting timely discharge.
The service includes three pathways: Discharge to Assess (D2A), supporting safe hospital discharge through urgent home-based therapy; Urgent Community Response (UCR), providing rapid assessment and intervention to prevent admission; and Camden Hospital at Home (H@H), a Consultant-led service delivering hospital-level care in patients' homes. UCR also incorporates the Urgent Falls Pick-Up Service, responding within two hours to support non-injured fallers.
This is an excellent opportunity to work with a diverse caseload, using advanced clinical reasoning to assess and manage complex patients across innovative community pathways. The role also provides valuable leadership experience through involvement in service development, quality improvement, workforce planning, recruitment, supervision and collaborative working across health and social care.
Main duties of the job As a Band 7 Physiotherapist within Camden Rapid Access Services (RAS), you will play a key role in delivering high-quality, patient-centred acute and rehabilitative care within the community across the Discharge to Assess (D2A), Urgent Community Response (UCR), Hospital at Home (H@H) and Urgent Falls Pick-Up pathways. You will undertake comprehensive assessments of patients with complex physical, functional and social needs, using advanced clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to formulate and deliver effective management plans. Working autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team, you will support admission avoidance, facilitate timely hospital discharge, and promote recovery and independence within patients' own homes. The post holder will provide clinical leadership within the service, supporting junior staff and students through supervision, teaching and appraisal, while contributing to service development, quality improvement initiatives and the ongoing evolution of integrated community care pathways. You will work collaboratively with acute trusts, primary care, social care and third-sector partners, ensuring seamless patient care and helping to reduce pressures on acute hospital services through innovative and responsive community-based interventions.
About us
Shift work (earlies, lates and long days) as well as flexible working opportunities Buy & Sell Annual Leave NHS Pension Scheme Employee Assistance Programme: A free and confidential service to help with personal life Structured induction process using the New Starter Roadmap throughout the first 12 months and beyond A range of staff networks: The PRIDE@CNWL Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and other sexual and gender minorities (LGBT+) Network; Disabled Employees Network;Lived Experience of Mental Health Staff Network;Carers at Work Network; Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic Network (BME) Discounts and savings at hundreds of retailers nationwide with My Trust Benefits: You can save money on your weekly food shops, household bills, toiletries, and cosmetics, cinema tickets, meals out and holidays or weekend breaks. Salary sacrifice scheme via VIVUP platform
Job description Job responsibilities
Central andNorth WestLondon NHS Trust is committed to providing safe, effective services and providing patients and families with a positive experience.
Patient Safety
TheSeniorPhysiotherapistcontributesto the provision of safe and reliable services by:
Using their clinical judgement and risk assessments to keep the people using our services as safe as possible
Safeguarding people by recognising and responding when an adult or child might be at risk from abuse but also recognising their own limits and asking for help and escalate concerns when necessary
Escalating safety concerns and by doing so acting as effective advocates for those who use our services
Being open and transparent about their own practice
Supervising the work of others
Reflecting on everyday practice toidentifyareas where improvements in safety or quality can be made
Working with others to create a culture of continuous improvement
Maintainingaccurate, legible, comprehensive records
Maintainingcompliance with their mandatory training requirements
As the regulatory body, theHealth and Care Professions Council (HCPC)playsan important rolein safeguarding the public by regulating the work ofboth occupational therapists and physiotherapists. Alltherapistsmust beregisteredwith theHCPCand adhere to therelevantProfessional Standards andCode of Conduct.
Clinical Outcomes
TheSeniorPhysiotherapistwilloften work with people who have complex needs and contribute to the effectiveness of services by:
Being confident, autonomous practitioners who take responsibility for the care they give to patients but also take responsibility for overseeing the work of others in the team including less experiencedtherapistsand staff without a professional qualification
Providing skilled, evidence-based care which adheres to agreed policies and procedures
Working with patients and families in all stages of the care planning process including assessing risks and needs
Acting as patient advocates in the multi-disciplinary team and overseeing the work of others to ensure that they are also responding to the needs of patients and providing clinically effective care
Working as autonomous practitioners and taking responsibility for the care they give to patients but also work as team members
Contributing to creating andmaintaininghigh performing teams by:
Communicating well with all members of the team
Understanding their role in the team and how they help the team achieveitsobjectives
Reflecting on their own practice regularly and encouraging the whole team to reflect on their practices in handovers and team meetings
Encouraging the team to learn from adverse events or respond to data analysis from audits or benchmarking exercises and implement sustainable initiatives which improve clinical outcomes
Patient Experience
TheSeniorPhysiotherapistwillcontribute to the people using our services feeling respected and empowered to make decisions about their health and wellbeing by:
Working in partnership with patients and their families and carers
Gaining consent and, as far as possible, involving people in all decision making
Signposting patients and carers to the courses provided by the Recovery and Wellbeing College or services provided by the local authority or voluntary sector
Reassuring people by being professional, responsive,knowledgeableand confident
Demonstrating clinical leadership and challenging any poor behaviour to patients, families or other staff members and creating a positive, inclusive culture in which everyone is treated with kindness andrespectand the trusts values are embedded in all practice
Responding to complaints or concerns effectively and quickly in line with the Trust policy.
Supporting yourself and others
All services and teams in the Trust should be able todemonstratethat they are meeting the Care Quality Commission (CQC) standards of care.TheSeniorPhysiotherapistisexpected to beaclinicalleaderplayingan active role in ensuring that the team understands the CQC standards and what individual team members do to help achieve those standards by:
Taking a lead role in gathering and recording evidence whichdemonstratesthatCQC and locally agreedstandards are beingmet:assessing the performance of the whole team by using audit and benchmarking exercises and often contribute to the implementation of quality improvement initiatives
Contributing to the performance management of teams and creating a positive culturein which the team can learn from mistakes and is enthusiastic to improve
Deputising for theTherapy Leadand ensuring that there is no fall in performance in their absence. This may include managing the team and coordinating shifts.
To undertake the role of PracticeSupervisor
Engaged staff are more productive andtheSeniorPhysiotherapistwillplay a role in engaging in other staff members in thetrust and the work we do by:
Providing supervision and annual appraisals to individuals and giving constructive, regular feedback which helps those individuals reflect on their work, understand theirobjectivesand the CQCstandardsandmonitortheir progress towards achieving them
Participating constructively in their own supervision and annual appraisal processes
Using continuing professional development funds to develop a relevant clinical specialism, gain sign-off mentorship skills or undertake accredited leadership modules.
Service Specific Responsibilities
To provide supervision, annual appraisal andmonitoringthe work of RAStherapists(Band5 &6),therapyassistantsand students.
Complete DATIX investigationsandInitialLearningReviews (ILRs), as delegated by the service leads.
Activelyparticipate/ lead in clinical handover.
UsingHealthRoster,participatein rota planning;finalise day to day bank/agency shifts; book temporary workers asrequired.
Leadership and Management
To contribute to the recruitment andselectionof staff for the team and toparticipatein
induction and orientation programmes
To manage and co-ordinate the work ofPhysiotherapistsandtherapyassistants,monitoringand appraising their performance, offering support,developmentand training asappropriate.
To take responsibility for ensuring own mandatory training is up to date and those of the team members are similarly.
Monitoring Statutory and Mandatory training compliance forsupervisees, ensuring where staff are not compliant, there is a plan in place to become compliant.
Tobe able toidentifyand implementformal processes such as capability management; disciplinary action etc.
To contribute to the successful implementation of organisational directives within the team and the achievement of annual team aims andobjectives.
Tocontinually look for andidentifyopportunities for improvingthe service andvalue for money,so that the overall aims andobjectivesof the service are achievedwithoutimpactingon patients quality of care.
To improve access to services by ensuring that service provision and delivery is culturally
appropriate for the targeted client group.
Support, teach and assess the developing clinical skills of junior team members in response to the changing needs within the localities.
Promoteevidence-basedpractice that responds to local and national service standards, and to act as a resource to colleagues.
Maintain an oversight of the weekly / monthly allocations, ensuring staffing isoptimalor sent to bank/agency asappropriate.
Deputise forTherapyLeadwhen they are unavailable / otherwise engaged / on leave.
Person Specification
Education and Qualifications Essential
Degree / Diploma Physiotherapy HCPC Registration Evidence of continued professional development Practice Educator training
Desirable
Member of CSP Leadership / Management courses
Other Desirable
Full and valid UK driving licence
Previous Experience Essential
Previous experience of working in the UK or a similar health economy as a Physiotherapist Previous experience at Band 6 to include the following: Older Adults, Frailty and Rehabilitation: Frailty/elderly rehabilitation, falls, dementia, and delirium. Previous experience at Band 6 to include the following: Acute and Physical Health Services: Medicine, general surgery, orthopaedics, respiratory, and pain management. Previous experience at Band 6 to include the following: Community and Integrated Care: Community working and experience across community-based rehabilitation pathways. Previous experience at Band 6 to include the following: Specialist Neurological and Musculoskeletal Practice: Neurology and MSK. Previous experience of supervising students and junior staff Understanding of the role of Primary care in admission prevention and supporting a timely discharge
Desirable
Previous experience to include the following: Rapid Response/Urgent Community Response Innovative Working Experience of working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting
Skills and knowledge Essential
Excellent communication, IT and documentation skills, including the use of electronic patient record systems and the production of high-quality clinical records, reports and presentations. Advanced clinical knowledge and reasoning skills, including assessment and management of frailty, disability, delirium and complex health needs, application of the Mental Capacity Act, risk identification, recognition of deterioration, and evidence-based practice Effective multidisciplinary working, leadership and professional development, demonstrating initiative, problem-solving skills, the ability to support and develop others, and an understanding of evolving NHS services Commitment to quality improvement, patient safety and person-centred care, including knowledge of clinical governance, Health and Safety, service improvement methodologies and improving patient outcomes and experience.
Attitudes, aptitudes, personal characteristics Essential
Demonstrates and lives CNWL behaviour core values Awareness of team work and able to perform to a high standard within a team framework Motivated to own personal development Apply suggestions, recommendations and directives to improve services Effective leadership skills
Other Essential
Awareness of NHS polices in respect to primary care and reducing hospital admissions (including the NHS Long Term Plan)
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address St Pancras Hospital
4 St Pancras Way
London
NW1 0PE
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work (Opens in a new tab)