Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust
Urgent Care Physiotherapist/Occupational Therapist
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We are looking for a skilled Physio or Occupational Therapist to join our Urgent Care Team in Herne Bay.
Urgent Care Services brings together nurses, therapists, support workers, frailty specialists, GPs, consultants, and advanced practitioners as one integrated team delivering urgent, specialist, and proactive care across East Kent.
We provide rapid assessment and treatment to help people stay safely at home, prevent avoidable hospital admissions, and support timely discharge. Working 24/7, 365 days a year, our services include urgent community response, rehabilitation and enablement, frailty crisis support, hospital-at-home care, and virtual ward pathways using remote monitoring technology.
Urgent Care Services offers hospital-level care in patients’ homes, including near-patient testing, consultant-led decision-making, and alternatives to acute admission, while also supporting PCN hubs, care homes, and proactive comprehensive geriatric assessments.
Band 6 Health Care Professionals (HCP) Responsibilities
Band 6 HCP work closely with the people who use our services, families, friends, and carers and play an important contribution in how people experience our services.
Band 6 HCPs Are Expected To Be Kind, Responsive, and Professional, Contributing To The Quality Of The Services We Provide By
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- Keeping the people who use our services safe through the use of sound clinical skills and effective risk assessments
- Ensuring the best possible clinical outcomes by using up-to-date skills and adhering to evidence-based policies and procedures
- Ensuring the people that use our services have a good experience by respecting, empowering, and working in partnership with them.
Successful AHP candidates would be expected to be competent with basic venepuncture techniques within this post, training will be offered as needed.
Applicant Requirements
Applicants will need to be flexible problem solvers, have excellent multidisciplinary working skills, and demonstrate a positive interest in community-based frailty care.
Applicants are strongly advised to email Clinical lead Tim Wroot at timothy.wroot@nhs.net if they wish to discuss details of the role prior to application.
Integration Notice
Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust is due to integrate with Medway Community Healthcare on 1 October 2026. Following integration and to align our community services to the new Neighbourhood Model of care delivery, there will be a period of consultation which may result in changes affecting some services, teams, or roles. Depending on the area you are applying to work in, this could include potential changes to your role, work base, reporting arrangements, or terms and conditions of employment. Any changes would be subject to consultation and managed sensitively and in line with relevant employment processes. Please do contact the recruiting manager if you have any concerns about this so they can answer any questions you might have.
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About Us
Rated ‘Outstanding’ by CQC, we deliver high-quality care that improves the health of our communities. We are looking for people who share our values: Compassionate, Aspirational, Responsive, and Excellent.
We are proud to be an inclusive, welcoming organisation and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds. We use protected characteristic information for monitoring only and it is not seen by recruiting managers, except where applicants choose to be considered under our disability guaranteed interview scheme.
We know life outside work matters. As a flexible working-friendly organisation, we welcome conversations about arrangements that help you thrive while supporting excellent care for our patients.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Tim Wroot
- Job title: Team Clinical Lead
- Email address: timothy.wroot@nhs.net
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