Knowsley community therapy team is seeking a committed Band 7 Clinical lead Physiotherapist to join our service supporting the patients and staff through shared care within their localities. The post holder will provide expertise and advice in the treatment of highly complex conditions and mentorship to those within the community therapy team. They will have continuing responsibility for the management of a defined caseload and a coordination role of the daily activities.
We are seeking a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and proactive therapist to work in collaboration with the service lead to support service modernisation and redesign, with the service responding to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities or support with discharge from the hospital setting.
This is a fantastic opportunity to join our multi-disciplinary team, which consist of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. We also provide Physiotherapy intervention to other teams within our portfolio, specifically the Falls team, Rydal ward and the Physical health in reach (PHIR – mental health). The OT and Physio support input within the Willowbrook hospice and guide patients’ home from the short term placements beds within then community.
If you’re motivated, with a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
The post holder will provide clinical leadership for staff, through supervision and PDR. They will participate in planning, development and evaluation of the services within the designated area/team,ensuring the delivery of the quality strategy incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s comorbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the patient group.Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour. Work in partnership with other professional to enable service users / patients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Physiotherapy profession within community therapy and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all staff, students and practitioners.
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Provide clinical leadership and management to the clinical team
Be responsible for the delivery of the service within the area.
Work in partnership with other services/stakeholders etc., to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
Have full line management responsibility for the team ensuring appropriate delegation and delivery of patients/client care.
Ensure that teams work proactively in order to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients/clients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
Maintain clinical credibility by providing clinical care and supporting members of the team within the clinical environment.
Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
Acts as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
Implement plans for the team including rotas and schedules/working patterns to ensure business continuity
Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to the team when managing complex and highly complex situations.
Assess patient/client conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex clinical care.
Work in collaboration with other stakeholders to deliver services to patients/clients.
Following holistic assessment of health needs, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients/clients and carers.
Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
Set objectives by which performance will be monitored.
Work with the service lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to staff.
Provide reports to the service lead on staff and patient activity as requested
Work in collaboration with others to support practice development and service modernisation.
Contribute to the development of role and service redesign.
Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
Provide induction to the local working environment, and policies for new team members and students.
Be an authorised signatory, ensuring probity in the authorisation of timecards and mileage claims.
Monitor budgets reporting over/under spending to the budget holder.
Undertake personal development plans (PDP) and ensure all team members
Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect local needs
Have up to date PDPs, monitor Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and reviews.
Ensure that all staff attend mandatory training.
Ensure that administration and clerical duties are appropriately delegated to clerical support officers.
Provide data that supports the monitoring of team contract and objectives.
Participate in audits and research, as required.
Participate in individual and group supervision.
Implement mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
Ensure that record keeping within the team is consistent with professional standards.
Initiate training and development of team members.
Monitor and maintain standards of patient care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping
In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by the team is evidenced based and supported by best practice, through the use of audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
Maintain registration in line with professional bodies.
Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
Identify skills deficits within the team identify methods of addressing these to support service delivery, improvement and development.
This advert closes on Monday 10 Feb 2025