Rric Community Practitioner

**#MissionRRIC**: join our team

Our innovative Rapid Response & Intermediate Care service is expanding across Buckinghamshire - and we need you to join our team in Aylesbury.

**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 as a Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Nurse, Paramedic, Community Healthcare Assistant Practitioner or Healthcare Assistant.
- Who are we?We are part of Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust, based in 7 locations across the county. Together we operate as one mission force, collaborating with colleagues across all sectors of health and social care. Full-time, part-time, and evening hours available. Secondments welcome.
- 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 that this vacancy may close before the advertised closing date.

Mission RRIC

**Your main duties include**:

- Providing 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

What does Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust offer you?
- As part of our BHT family, you will benefit from learning and development opportunities to support your career progression.
- We offer flexible and agile working opportunities, alongside your NHS benefits of generous annual leave entitlement, pension and access to NHS discount schemes.
- We provide a range of health and wellbeing services to promote a healthy, happy workforce.

Why work for us?
- We are committed to promoting inclusion and making sure all colleagues feel they belong. We encourage new colleagues from a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
- As an employer, we aim to create a workplace where differences are valued and colleagues treat one another with dignity and respect.
- Greater diversity within our BHT family improves positive outcomes for the people and communities we serve.

What do we stand for?
- Our vision is to provide outstanding care, support healthy communities and be a great place to work.
- Our mission is to provide personal and compassionate care every time.
- Our CARE values are collaborate, aspire, respect and enable.

Your main responsibility is to
- Use your expertise to improve the care of patients in the community, so patients can remain safely in their own home for as long as possible
- Have an innovative approach, excellent communication skills and willingness to work with other members of the community teams to ensure high quality service delivery
- Have experience in managing and developing staff
- Willingness to further develop your clinical expertise in a range of areas
- A full driving licence and access to a car for work purposes
- We have more than one position available for this role - fulltime or part time*

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.