Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear (CNTW) NHS Foundation Trust
The Secure Care CBU is a regional service offering care and treatment to individuals who have mental health, personality disorder, or learning disability diagnoses and have come into contact with the criminal justice system. The service works across medium and low secure inpatient wards, the community, and prison.
We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic individual who has a definite interest in working within our Secure Care Physiotherapy Inpatients Team.
This diverse role involves providing support to a Band 8a Physiotherapy Lead working in our Medium and Low Secure Mental Health Units, providing physiotherapy assessments under set protocols and parameters, and delivering both 1:1 and group-based treatment sessions.
The role is flexible, and you will work closely with physiotherapy staff, patients, and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.
Main Duties of the Job
Physiotherapy has a very important role to play in helping those with mental health problems. We provide physiotherapy assessments and treatments for specific musculoskeletal, neurological, balance, mobility, and occasionally respiratory problems.
Our assessment identifies the physiotherapy requirements for these patients. Specific individual patient-centered treatment plans are then formulated, and appropriate treatment is provided.
Main Duties are as follows:
* To assist in the delivery of physiotherapy care to service users who have a variety of needs, diverse presentations, and a range of mental health, learning disabilities, and/or neurological conditions under the direction of a registered physiotherapist. The overall responsibility for the service user remains, at all times, with the registered physiotherapist.
* To implement and evaluate physiotherapy programmes within a prescribed framework as a member of the physiotherapy team, ensuring that high quality, individualized treatment is delivered. These programmes should promote recovery and well-being and maximize independence.
* To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team.
* To provide compassionate care based on empathy, kindness, respect, and dignity.
* To actively engage with the supervision and appraisal process as identified in Trust policy.
* To support the induction, training, education, and assessment of trainee or new assistant practitioners, students, and clinical support workers.
About Us
We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented, and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return, we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.
Job Responsibilities
The successful candidate will have excellent communication, prioritization, and delegation skills. You will be supported to complete our in-house local competency training framework, which will enable you to manage your own delegated caseload, delivering interventions under the supervision of the qualified Physiotherapist.
You will receive regular professional and management supervision and will be supported to develop enhanced skills in this specialist area.
We welcome your application.
Person Specification
Education and Qualification
* Foundation degree or NVQ Level 4 (in a related area), or NVQ Level 3 (in a relevant area) with additional training in the specialty field or equivalent evidence of underpinning knowledge.
* Demonstrate the knowledge and skills applicable to the post as detailed in the person specification.
Knowledge and Experience
* Experience of working in an appropriate care setting.
* Able to follow instructions, recognizing the boundaries of own competency.
* Experience of supervising/teaching individuals.
Skills and Competencies
* Ability to use IT systems.
* Ability to establish rapport with service users.
* Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
* Flexible.
* Experience of moving and handling legislation.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975, and as such, it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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