Senior Physiotherapist - Specialist Outpatients Rehab
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced rehabilitation physiotherapist to join our Outpatient Rehab Gym team. You will work with a wide variety of patients including those with neurological conditions, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and generalised deconditioning, who require bespoke and personalised rehabilitation within the outpatient setting.
You will work with and receive peer support from B7, B6 and B3 colleagues and have clinical supervision with our neuro physiotherapy advanced practitioner. There will be opportunities for personal and professional development identified through your supervision and appraisals.
As a recently integrated department, you will work collaboratively with the existing team and key stakeholders to shape and develop the service provided to patients across the city.
As such, you will need to have excellent communication skills, experience of service development and the ability to ensure service delivery.
Main duties of the job
1. To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
2. To manage and provide effective leadership of therapy staff.
3. To manage and develop physiotherapy input to provide optimal patient care ensuring high standards of clinical practice.
Job responsibilities
1. To liaise with the Therapy Manager providing specialist advice on the planning and development of the service.
2. To represent Therapy Services on any service development working parties / meetings as appropriate.
3. To support the leading of regular staff meetings and facilitate good communication between the department and Trust both on Trust and National issues ensuring effective dissemination of information.
4. To provide expert advice to colleagues.
5. To monitor activity and support production/analysis of data for clinical speciality.
6. Where necessary, to take appropriate action to ensure activity and waiting list targets are achieved within the service.
7. To assess the Therapy equipment required for the department.
8. To actively participate in the professional development programme of the physiotherapy /therapy department.
9. To undertake appraisals and development reviews within the therapy team and contribute to the induction of new therapy staff.
10. To attend relevant training courses and complete yearly appraisal and personal development plans in order to maintain clinical and managerial competence.
11. To disseminate information from training attended as required.
12. To train and supervise students on clinical placement.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* BSc in Physiotherapy
* Grad.Diploma in Physiotherapy
* Current registration with HCPC
* Post Graduate courses in Management at various levels/equivalent
* Post-Graduate courses in a variety of specialities/clinical education
Experience
* Experience working in various specialities and in management roles.
Knowledge
* Experience in conducting audit
* Experience in conducting or supporting Research projects
Skills
* Excellent written and oral communication skills
* Forward thinking with knowledge of current NHS/speciality issues
* Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others.
* Ability to manage and work as part of MDT
* Able to handle difficult, sensitive and emotional situations.
* Ability to think quickly, assess clinical situations and take decisions upon that information.
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.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
£46,148 to £52,809 a year, per annum, pro rata
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