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Job overview

We are currently Recruiting a Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our friendly, enthusiastic and Driven Emergency care therapy team.

The Rapid Emergency Assessment Care Team (REACT) comprises of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Therapy Assistants. We aim to avoid hospital admission by providing comprehensive Therapy assessments within the Accident and Emergency Department. Timely discharge assessments are provided for patients on the medical assessment and short stay wards. Detailed intervention plans ensure that the patient journey is streamlined and a focus on discharge planning is maintained.

Our service allows many opportunities for excellent interdisciplinary working within the team and positive relationships with medical, nursing and social care colleagues across frailty, emergency care, and community services.

Fundamental to the service model, is the team providing a 7-day service, which is rolled out over a fixed, four week repeating rota. We work slightly longer days meaning our hours are condensed over 4 days allowing for a greater work life balance. The successful candidate will be required to work one weekend, every 4 weeks.

We are a forward-thinking team, and are looking for someone who is passionate about service development from an admission avoidance perspective. Our team advocates for Quality improvement and are regularly reviewing and adapting our services to best suit the ever-changing climate. 

Main duties of the job

• As a clinical specialist provide a high standard comprehensive physiotherapy assessment and treatment service of patients with a wide range of conditions working as an autonomous clinician, using accurate analytical skills and clinical reasoning to interpret assessment findings, making diagnoses where appropriate, identifying patient problems, setting goals, and providing an appropriate treatment plan and progression.
• To be an active member of a 7 day working service.
• Upon completion and maintenance of on call competencies, to work unsupervised in an on-call and out of hour’s emergency service.
• To work autonomously to manage a defined complex patient caseload whilst working as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Working for our organisation

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.

The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.  

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.  

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.  

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its ‘Be Safe Be EquiPPEd’ campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.  

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients.  We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.  

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.