Job Description

Job Introduction

Join our dynamic Reablement Team based in Bath and surrounding areas. We're a short-term service supporting adults at home and in care settings, focusing on promoting independence through rehabilitation and equipment provision.


Key Service Areas:

Discharge to Assess: Supporting patients post-discharge after illness, injury, or surgery. Admission Avoidance: Preventing hospital admissions within 48 hours. Planned Therapy: Helping patients achieve SMART goals and self-management.

You'll work closely with acute services, GPs, nurses, and social care teams, alongside a supportive multi-disciplinary team including OTs, PTs, therapy assistants, and coordinators.


Within our very supportive team, you will be working alongside other Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Care Co-Ordinators, Rehabilitation Therapy Workers, and have administrative support.


The team also maintains close working relationships with our sister services in Keynsham and Midsomer Norton.


If you feel that you would like to join our amazing team, have a varied case load, and support with development and transformation, then we would welcome you to apply to this

full-time position

based at St Martin's Hospital, Bath.


The service hours are 8.00am until 22.00pm, but core hours for therapists are typically 8.00am-16.00pm with 8.00am-18.00pm and 8.00am-14.00pm once weekly.


The service runs seven days each week, and all staff are expected to work weekends and bank holidays on a rota basis and will be paid

enhancements

for unsocial hours worked in line with AFC rates.


Main Responsibilities

As a Reablement Physiotherapist you will:

Carry out therapeutic assessments, treatment and rehabilitation with patients, using person- centred goals. Provide an evidence-based occupational therapy service, of a high standard, to patients in a community setting, by undertaking comprehensive assessments, reassessments, care planning, rehabilitation, equipment provision, and therapeutic care and support. Hold responsibility for your own case load, working with Rehabilitation Therapy Workers to deliver therapeutic programmes. Provide effective supervision to junior Physiotherapists, Therapy Assistant Practitioners, Reablement Therapy Workers, Physiotherapy Apprentices and students. Support management with developing the Reablement Service, in line with the NHS transformation plan.

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone who is: motivating, innovative, flexible, and adaptable, who can ensure the delivery of positive experiences to patients, at every stage of their healthcare journey.

You must hold a Degree in Physiotherapy You will be a Registered Physiotherapist with HCPC Hold a Full UK Driver's License and have access to a car/vehicle

If you would like more information, please contact:


Kerry Lazenby at Kerry.Lazenby@hcrgcaregroup.com or call 01225 613701.


About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.



Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.



We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We're a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.



While it doesn't happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we'll need to close it earlier than the date we've shown here. If you're keen to join our team, we'd love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.



As you'd expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.



Finally, we need to let you know that the company you'll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we'll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.


Package Description

We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Band 6 Reablement Physiotherapist to join us and work as part of our valued team, based at St Martin's Hospital, Bath.


As a Reablement Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group you will receive access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

A salary of 37,338 - 44,962, with NHS pension contributions, and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions. Free tea and coffee at your base location. Membership of 'My Reward Hub', giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping, cashback, and voucher offers, for yourself and your family. Access to your wages as you earn them, to help cover life's emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates. Online, and face to face support with your mental and physical wellbeing; - from healthy recipes and activity challenges to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management guidance, career coaching, and counselling. Access to e-learning, and opportunities for continuing professional development to support your career progression, through our 'outstanding' training and development programmes. An open, fair, and supportive culture, where you will be encouraged to contribute and implement ideas, which can help deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care - backed up by at least 100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year. * The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with many of our rated services holding "good" or "outstanding" ratings from the Care Quality Commission.