Job summary
- Main area
- Therapies
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 362-A-25-7198284
- Employer
- Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Community Regent House
- Town
- Stockport
- Salary
- £29,970 - £36,483 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Discharge to Assess Rotational Band 5 Therapist
Band 5
Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
There are lots of good reasons to choose to come and work at Stockport NHS Foundation Trust. A dynamic integrated Trust with integrity and vision. Exactly the same qualities you’ll see in yourself. Stockport NHS Foundation Trust aims to be the organisation of choice for patients and an employer of choice for staff. In order to continually improve all aspects of our patient experience, we rely upon having a highly skilled, motivated, diverse, productive and patient focused workforce.
Stockport Foundation Trust is one of four ‘specialist’ hospital sites in Greater Manchester. Being a ‘specialist’ hospital will enhance our general surgery, anaesthetics, critical care and emergency medicine for the benefit of people in Stockport, High Peak, Cheshire and across Greater Manchester.
Our values ‘We Care, We Respect, We Listen’ are at the heart of everything we do, and come from our promise: ‘Making a difference every day.’ They drive the behaviour and actions for everyone in our organisation.
In your application for this post, please describe how your experience and skills align with 'Our values-based behaviours' ( see additional documentation) and provide examples.
Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment
As well as recognising previous NHS service, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is a member of the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment. If you are currently employed by Greater Manchester Local Authority, Combined Authority, GMFRS, TfGM as well as other public service organisations, Stockport NHS Foundation Trust will recognise your previous service for sickness and maternity/paternity/adoption entitlement and also for annual leave purposes (providing there has been no break in service). If you currently work for one of the above organisations and successfully apply for a post with Stockport NHS Foundation Trust, please ensure the Recruitment team are aware so that this service is reflected in your contract of employment.
Our Values:
We Care
About each other
Our patients and their families
The communities we serve
The environment
We support them and deliver on their promises
We Respect
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We are kind and helpful, and we expect the same in return
We Listen to
Each other
Our patients and their families
Our partners
We act and learn from what we hear
Job overview
Opportunities have arisen for Band 5 Therapist to work flexibly across both Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home across community services.
The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home teams are an innovative and exciting service, aiming to facilitate timely discharges to the residents of Stockport. Working as part of a lively and dynamic multi-professional community team, you will deliver holistic support and interventions to improve the health and well-being of individuals in their usual residence. In joining our team you will be helping us to drive our ambition of improving the health and well-being of people by working across organisational boundaries.
This is an exciting time to join our lively and diverse team, as the service expands and develops we require enthusiastic staff to shape our evolving service using skill, motivation and person centred care to provide an innovative service to the communities of Stockport.
The Discharge To Assess element is multi-professional services who assess patients upon discharge from hospital in the community. We provide individualised care to meet the person’s needs and facilitate transfer for onward care into the appropriate service: Health, Adult Social care or partner agencies. This takes place within the persons home.
Main duties of the job
The Discharge to Assess element : The aim of Discharge to Assess is to support people who are clinically optimised and do not require an acute hospital bed, but may still require care services with short term, funded support to be discharged to their own home or further assessment in a bed based community unit.
We provide holistic multidisciplinary interventions and support in order to stabilise patients in their own home or usual residence or discharge planning from a bed based unit. This comprises a multi-disciplinary integrated team.
The Rehabilitation Element incorporates a free, short-term rehabilitation service for adults to help prevent unnecessary hospital admission, enable early discharge from hospital and prevent unnecessary admission to long-term residential care. The service is for adults who have been assessed as medically stable and who do not require hospital care. This role will require the post holder to work flexibly within the Discharge to assess service.
The service covers 7 days, 8am - 9pm.
Working for our organisation
We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.
We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.
We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.
If you require support with your application please contact a member of the recruitment team, who can discuss alternative application methods.
We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.
Benefits we offer to you:
- Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
- NHS pension scheme membership
- Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
- NHS Staff discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
- Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Qualified Therapist. The Discharge to Assess and Intermediate Care at Home Teams continually develop and enhance the seamless transfer of care from hospital discharge to usual residence, the successful candidate will therefore embody trust values, in supporting and facilitating safe discharge to individuals who are deemed medically optimised. The successful candidate will be passionate in providing community based interventions, demonstrating a high level of holistic care independently and as part of a team.
The Multi – professional team consists of highly skilled, registered Nursing staff, Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists and Trusted Assessors. Complementing our registered staff, we excel in providing a large team of Senior Support workers and Community Rehabilitation Support workers. The role may include community based care within patients homes with the 'Home First' approach or working within a bed based Discharge to Assess facility. As a valued member of the team, you will be expected to liaise with colleagues across all sectors to facilitate discharge but also work independently to plan care and implement from a patient centred approach.
The team provides a seven day service, therefore this entails working some weekends and bank holidays. The post is community based, delivering assessments and interventions in their usual domiciliary setting, therefore independent travel with use of your own vehicle, business insurance and a full driving licence to deliver the role is essential. The team base is central to Stockport at Regent House, Heaton Lane, Stockport, SK4 1BS and includes travel across the borough of Stockport.
We promote a positive ethos on personal and professional development, providing access to training and supervisions. You will be offered induction, supernumerary working and full access to mandatory training, furthermore CDP training is full supported and very much encouraged. Regular PDRs and reflective supervisions are provided, alongside peer support sessions in the form of multidisciplinary and profession specific team meetings. Competency based training will be provided for this role and you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team with a broad skill mix.
If successful, this vacancy will require an enhanced DBS check at a cost of £54.50. This cost will be deducted from your first Trust salary. In addition to this it will be a condition of your employment that you will join the DBS update service and pay the annual subscription fee of £16.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Hons. Degree in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy or Masters degree in Rehabilitation with a licence to practise Physiotherapy.
- State Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- UK driving licence
- Evidence of Continuous Professional Development maintained in a portfolio
Desirable criteria
- Related academic attainment
- Attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical fields in rotations.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of Therapy issues relating to a wide range of conditions - theoretical, practical and professional.
- Basic knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
- Health, safety and risk awareness
- Understanding of professional ethics and their application and practice.
- Basic knowledge of health legislation and current practice.
- Word processing and internet skills
- Knowledge of Mental Capacity Act and application
- Knowledge of Safeguarding responsibilities
- Knowledge of risk assessment and management.
- Knowledge of current best practice in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of working of community therapy and discharge pathways
- Group work skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Pre-reg placements or post reg experience relevant to this post.
- Ability to work as a member of an inter-professional team
- Documented evidence of continued professional development
- Contributing to clinical education of less experienced staff or students or assistants
Desirable criteria
- Community Experience
- Clinical experience as a Band 5
- Participation in complex discharge planning
- Experience in conflict resolution
- Experience of working with individuals with cognitive impairments, confused patients and patients with severe physical limitations to mobility.
Skills & Abilities
Essential criteria
- Basic analytical and problem solving skills
- Clinical reasoning skills
- Ability to organise caseload and manage time effectively
- Ability to prioritise and problem solve.
- Ability to motivate and encourage reluctant and challenging patients, using negotiation and persuasion skills
- Ability to work under pressure.
- Good communication skills
- Pro-active approach to self-development able to seek supervision as required but act innovatively to apply new ideas with support if senior staff
- Good personal organisation skills
- Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
- Ability to lone work, work across sites and work subject to service demands
- Flexible in their attitudes and behaviours to support team working and delivery of objectives
- Positive approach to work, punctual and reliable
- Supports learning and development of self and others.
- Supports and promotes equality and diversity
Desirable criteria
- Training and presentation skills
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
Work Related Circumstances
Essential criteria
- Ability to move and handle patients and carry equipment
- Undertake out of hours duties; evenings and weekends if required.
- Flexible approach to work
- Car driver with use of car and business insurance to work across sites and locations
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Rachel Henderson
- Job title
- Band 7 Therapy team Lead- D2A
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0161 835 6697
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