Band 6 Senior Locality Hub Clinician – AHP

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our Locality Hub as a Senior Clinician.

The Locality Hub is part of an integrated health and social care model, supporting coordination of care across acute, community, and primary care services. The aim is to reduce hospital admissions, minimise length of stay, and ensure patients receive timely, appropriate care within the community.

The post holder will play a key role in triaging referrals, coordinating care pathways, and supporting safe and effective patient flow across services.

Work in accordance with the HCPC Standards of Conduct Performance and Ethics and within the scope of Professional Practice, Trust Policies and practice in an evidence-based manner.

To provide a holistic approach to patients/clients that includes assessment and skills in triaging referrals and queries, to evaluate the information given, using appropriate questioning, to establish the correct clinical pathway based on the clinical service and its priority.

Demonstrate critical thinking and assessment skills when making clinical decisions, during the assessment of a variety of patients, some of which may be complex and require an MDT approach.

To act as an autonomous practitioner providing a comprehensive triage and clinical assessment service ensuring safe and appropriate clinical decisions are made.

Referrals and queries may come from clinicians, patients or their representatives and given the complexity of some cases, there may be barriers to understanding which the post-holder will be required to deal with in line with the Trust values.

The post-holder will undertake the locality clinical in-reach function, in collaboration with colleagues at the aligned acute hospital. This will involve the identification of patients with community amenable presentations who could be discharged from hospital with the appropriate community support.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust ( BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people’s homes, health centres and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in peoples homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities.

We are committed to delivering high-quality, patient-centred care within the community. Our integrated approach brings together professionals across health and social care to provide seamless, coordinated services.

We promote a supportive working environment, continuous professional development, and a culture focused on innovation, inclusion, and improving outcomes for our local population

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lianne Durall Job title: South locality Hub Team Leader Email address: ***email_hidden*** Telephone number: 01214664190