Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Critical Care (Aintree)

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional health trust in Liverpool is seeking an experienced physiotherapist to provide clinical leadership and manage day-to-day operations of the Critical Care Physiotherapy service. Candidates should hold a relevant degree and have substantial post-registration experience, along with strong leadership and communication skills. The role involves ensuring evidence-based practices and managing a multidisciplinary team. Competitive salary and professional development opportunities offered.

Qualifications

• Substantial post-registration experience working at a clinical specialist level.
• Experience in management and supervision of staff.
• Understanding of NHS frameworks and quality indicators.
• Ability to manage stress effectively.

Responsibilities

• Provide Clinical Leadership for Physiotherapy staff.
• Ensure operational management of specialist Physiotherapy service.
• Critically evaluate treatment outcomes.
• Network with other clinical lead physiotherapists nationally.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Communication

Teamwork

Critical thinking

Organizational skills

Education

Degree in Therapy Profession

Current HCPC registration

Job description

Responsibilities

• Provide Clinical Leadership for the Physiotherapy staff on Critical Care ensuring the continued development and maintenance of clinical and professional skills within the team.
• Have substantial post registration experience working in physiotherapy at a clinical specialist level, have advanced clinical knowledge of Critical Care alongside experience of clinical leadership and will be considered an advanced physiotherapist in this specialist field.
• Act as a clinical lead and be responsible for the operational day to day management, organisation and delivery of the highly specialist Physiotherapy service to patients within Critical care.
• Interpret professional and national standards for the specialty and to facilitate their implementation.
• Utilise complex critical thinking to inform various clinical reasoning approaches when dealing with complex presentations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make autonomous decisions, in coordination with the multi-professional team.
• Contribute to values-based practice within identified scope of role, across the critical care pathway, crossing organisational boundaries, working with individuals, families, carers, communities, and others.
• Ensure Senior Physiotherapy staff attend the morbidity and mortality meetings within Critical Care.
• Evaluate complex patient presentations and care pathways autonomously through critical understanding, and application of advanced critical care knowledge, skills and behaviours relevant to the role, setting and professional scope of practice.
• Direct invasive and non-invasive ventilator management services including ventilator synchronisation strategies, ventilator optimisation and weaning across the critical care pathway.
• Critically evaluate treatment outcomes and ensure treatments are evidence based.
• Initiate, evaluate and modify a range of advanced therapeutic interventions, using professional judgement and demonstrating a critical understanding of a broadened scope of responsibility, autonomy and competence.
• Provide highly specialist /expert assessments, clinical diagnosis, effective treatment techniques and modalities to patients within Critical care, including patients with complex presentations, where the use of advanced clinical reasoning skills to formulate individualised treatment programmes is required.
• Network with other clinical lead physiotherapists' nationally to ensure best practice in this area.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Degree - Therapy Profession
• Current registration HCPC
• Educator /Mentorship qualification/ equivalent.
• Training qualification in relevant management/leadership development, Desirable criteria
• Demonstrable experience in the formal management and supervision of staff
• Experience of Human Resource related issues such as recruitment and retention and management of sickness, attendance and special leave, Extensive working knowledge of Therapy practice within designated clinical area of practice
• Good understanding of standardised assessment tools and treatment principles
• Awareness of and local involvement in current NHS issues and relevant frameworks/quality indicators
• Demonstrate a good understanding of Risk Assessment and Health & Safety issues, Ability to demonstrate specialist clinical skills accompanied by an extensive and current working knowledge of Therapy practice within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
• Effective communicator at all levels
• Ability to manage own stress and awareness of stress in others and ability to access support as relevant
• High level of ability to work in multidisciplinary and collaborative teams
• Ability to demonstrate tact/diplomacy and empathy within clinical and team settings
• High level of interpersonal skills
• High level of organisational and negotiation skills
• Ability to lead effectively
• Ability to motivate patients/staff
• Ability to demonstrate assertiveness within the clinical/team and service settings
• Ability to delegate appropriately
• Ability to represent the Team and Therapy service and the organisation at Trust initiatives and with external agencies
• Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of Therapy within specialist field of clinical practice
• Ability to demonstrate clinical reasoning and an holistic problem solving approach
• Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area
• Ability to manage own time within clinical and non clinical activity and to show effective leadership skills empowering others to use problem solving and decision making skills
• Effective teaching and presentation skills, experience of formal teaching and presentation
• Ability to demonstrate and promote reflective practice, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

About the Trust

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients. UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities – from birth and beyond. For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West. Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women's Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.

Recruitment and Employment

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview. We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role. Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months of their 18th birthday. The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work‑life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time‑back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under‑represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16‑24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced). From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website – https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero‑tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers) are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.