Site Community Physiotherapy, Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Town: Prescot
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 24/11/2024 23:59
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled, and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore, we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training, and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
Job overview
Liverpool Community Physiotherapy service provides therapy and rehabilitation in patients' homes. We aim to promote independence and improve quality of life for people with physical problems caused by accidents, ageing, disease, or disability. These include respiratory conditions, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions, mobility issues, neurological conditions, and those receiving palliative care.
If you’re motivated, with therapy experience and skills, a passion to be part of this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we’d like to hear from you.
The role involves working across Liverpool community teams (North, Central, South, Neuro, Rehab at Home, Care homes, and Falls) on a rotational basis to provide support to our patients in their homes and other community settings, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
We’re a very supportive team with physiotherapists, occupational therapists, and assistant practitioners.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s co-morbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence-based patient-centred principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions of the patient group.
The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. The post holder will participate in planning, development, and evaluation of services provided, holding responsibility for defined service improvement projects.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality therapy and care to a caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced-based practice.
Working for our organisation
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 costs as we do so.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s co-morbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence-based/patient-centred principles to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate interventions of the patient group.
To prioritise designated Physiotherapy referrals according to need, risk, and service capacity.
To plan and implement patient-centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within rehab hub setting.
To monitor, evaluate, and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
To ensure that the service user's care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.
To liaise with family members, carers, GP’s, and other professionals as necessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
Understanding risk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.
The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal.
The post holder will participate in planning, development, and evaluation of physiotherapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users/patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high-quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced-based practice.
Work in partnership with other professionals to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Physiotherapy profession and facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
Person specification
Values
* Accountability
* Support
* High professional standards
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
* Change oriented
Skills
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries
* Self-management and motivation skills
* IT literate
Qualifications
* Registered Professional
* Teaching/mentorship qualification or equivalent work-based experience
* Clinical Examination
Knowledge/Experience
* Demonstrable post registration/qualification experience in the identified specialised field of physiotherapy
* Experience of successful multi-agency working
* Demonstrable experience in relevant area of specialised physiotherapy practice or equivalent
* Evidence of CPD/Short courses
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care
* Understanding of partnership working
* Understanding of the principles of care management
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex information and advice on healthcare to patients/clients, carers, and colleagues
* Management and clinical leadership experience
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust’s guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancy earlier than advertised in exceptional circumstances once we have received a high volume of applications.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role to subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £13 per year and maintain registration.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
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