Physiotherapist

Transskribo; Leeds; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in mental health services is looking for a Physiotherapist to join their Healthy Living Service. This role involves working within multidisciplinary teams to provide excellent care and coordinated rehabilitation for service users. The position offers opportunities for professional development, as well as employee well-being support, flexible working arrangements, and an NHS Pension Scheme.

Benefits

27 - 33 days annual leave

NHS Pension Scheme

Flexible working and remote working arrangements

Coaching and development opportunities

Exclusive discounts

Qualifications

• Experience or interest in working in a mental health setting.
• Comprehensive clinical physiotherapy skills with knowledge of treatment options.
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide coordinated rehabilitation and condition management for service users.
• Deliver individualised treatment programmes based on assessment.
• Participate in clinical supervision and offer support to the multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Strong communication skills

Ability to develop rapport

Enthusiastic and positive outlook

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

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Are you looking for a new challenge? Are you motivated to find a role where your development is encouraged? If yes, you could be the right person for our Physiotherapy vacancy. The post is part of the Healthy Living Service within Leeds and York Partnership Foundation Trust, which focusses on improving the physical health of service users across a number of mental health services in the trust.

Working alongside staff on a range of mental health inpatient wards, you will work with the multidisciplinary team to provide excellent care to service users with mental health needs. There will also be

opportunities for independent working and team working. You will receive clinical supervision, an individual development plan and opportunities for skill development.

An enthusiastic, positive outlook is essential, as are strong communication skills and the ability to develop rapport with service users and multiple professionals across the trust to uphold our values of

caring, compassion and keeping things simple.

• Working as a specialist physiotherapist within MDTs across services, providing coordinated rehabilitation and condition management as part of service users recovery.
• To provide specialist holistic and physiotherapeutic assessment and advice/treatment of service users with diverse and complex physical, cognitive, psychological and neurological presentations in a variety of settings. To develop and deliver individualised treatment programmes.
• To provide physiotherapy advice and support to other professions within the wider multidisciplinary team and external agencies.
• To act as a clinical resource, problem solving issues relating to care of the service users.
• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties, which are within your scope of practice, as an autonomous practitioner within the Healthy Living Service.
• To hold responsibility for own caseload working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular 1:1 clinical and managerial sessions, formal training, clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences and multi-disciplinary team discussion. Actively participate in and provide clinical supervision to other team members.
  
  

The Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (LYPFT) is the main provider of Mental Health and Learning Disability services in Leeds. We also provide specialist inpatient services in York and some highly specialised services across the country. As a teaching trust with strong links to local universities, we are a centre of excellence for teaching, research and development.

There are many benefits of working for LYPFT including fantastic employee wellbeing support, 27 - 33 days annual leave, flexible working and remote working arrangements, the NHS Pension Scheme, coaching, support and opportunities for career development and training and education support alongside a range of exclusive discounts and payment schemes including for cars, extra leave days and more NHS Discount Offers.

We also have an incredible bank department, offering variety of roles in nursing, allied health professions, healthcare support worker and administration clerical. Permanent employees are automatically added to bank.

Applicants should be aware that any individual requiring a visa to work in the UK, the Trust provides sponsorship for registered healthcare practitioner roles only (this does not include Healthcare Support Workers) . This is an essential requirement, and the Trust is unable to offer you a role if you do not meet Trust requirements for sponsorship and Home Office requirements for a visa.

Work in liaison with Healthy Living Service team and other multi professional staff in the service line.

To undertake evidence-based audit and service improvement projects to develop own and teams clinical practice. Make recommendations for changes to practice and may contribute or lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or service developments.

• To plan, co-ordinate and deliver physiotherapy related training for staff. Participate in student training as required.
• Promote the benefits of active lifestyles and link to improved mental health.
• To maintain clear links with your professional structures and your professions lead within the trust. Support the professions development and modernisation and the adherence to your professions standards and code of practice.
  
  

The postholder will be required to utilise a wide range of communication skills in a variety of contexts on a daily basis related to fulfilling their role.

To demonstrate experience / interest in working in a mental health setting

Comprehensive, in-depth knowledge and understanding of clinical physiotherapy and evidence of the physiotherapy management of a wide range of complex clinical conditions.

To be able to work autonomously using own initiative

To working as part of a multidisciplinary team

To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Plan (PDP) as appraisee and appraiser and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development programmes to meet set knowledge and competencies.

To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices using Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or with clinical specialist or manager and to make recommendations for change.

To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance, Risk Management and CQC requirements and apply to work situation.

To share responsibility (with physiotherapy colleagues) for the day-to-day management, education, and appraisal of physiotherapy students during placements.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation/multi-pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate assessment/diagnosis of their condition.

To implement strategies to empower patients and families/carers to take a lead role in their rehabilitation and long-term management of their condition.

To formulate, deliver and evaluate individual physiotherapy treatment programmes based on a sound knowledge of evidence-based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of a variety treatment skills.

Formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans.

To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience youll need, look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the Supporting Documents heading.

So that youre even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, youll need to take time to read the Candidate Guide to Values Based Recruitment . This document provides you with information to help you apply.

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