Job overview

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 30 hours per week.

Would you like to work as part of a dynamic, developing Integrated Community Team?

Across Gloucestershire we have had major investment in our Home First and Reablement Team and as a result of this we have an opportunity for a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Team and be a key part of developing our therapy led service in the South Cotswolds. Our Team is based in Cirencester, and we work closely with the GP practices in the Primary Care Network, alongside our Adult Social Care colleagues and voluntary organisations in the locality.

This is an exciting time to join our team, as we build on our existing services in order to support more people to live independently at home. If you have a passion for community work, and delivering personalised care, then we would love to hear from you.

We can offer you the opportunity to work in a very supportive integrated team, with access to training, regular supervision, annual appraisal and the autonomy to be a lead professional in our new service delivery.

As you will be driving around the beautiful Cotswolds delivering our service, being a car driver is essential to the role. There might be opportunity for onsite accommodation at Cirencester Hospital - please get in touch for details. 

Main duties of the job

In line with the Government hospital discharge and community support policy, and the discharge to assess model, our Home First service is a time-limited assessment service for people in their own homes to facilitate rapid discharge from Acute and Community hospitals.

We also provide Reablement to patients in the community, to prevent hospital admission and to facilitate maximum independence, working on jointly agreed goals, promoting personalised care.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Working for our organisation

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us.  In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views.  It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

 This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement.  However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.