Physiotherapist - Specialist Mental Health

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust; Worthing; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working

Excellent CPD opportunities

Supportive leadership

Job summary

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 6) to support mental health wards across the Trust. The post offers opportunity to work with an experienced team led by a Band 7 specialist and drive service development, including supervision as the team expands.

You will work across a range of care pathways including mobility, rehabilitation, pain management and neurological/orthopaedic conditions, with CPD and flexible working options encouraged.

Qualifications

• Qualified Physiotherapist registered with the HCPC.
• Experience across a broad range of care pathways.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role.

Responsibilities

• Manage a varied caseload across mobility and falls, rehabilitation, postural care and neurological/orthopaedic conditions.
• Deliver direct interventions and group classes to patients on wards.
• Support development of skills of other staff and supervise when managed responsibilities grow.
• Travel to meetings and training at other sites as required.

Education

HCPC registration

Job description

Unique opportunity to join a team of mental health physiotherapists working across the Trusts adult mental health wards. This is a Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 6) role and would ideally suit an experienced practitioner with the desire to help deliver a high-quality service to people living with Dementia.

You will be supported by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 7). The team will be led by a Professional Lead Physiotherapist (Band 8a) in Mental Health. You will not be expected to supervise any physiotherapists initially, but the plan is to grow the service to include Band 4 and Band 5 Physiotherapists, and at which point you would be responsible for supervision. There are currently opportunities to support student Physiotherapists.

The post holder will be based within reasonable distance of Swandean Hospital and will need to able to travel for meetings and training to other sites on occasions, but they will not need to be a car driver.

Experience In Mental Health Is Advantageous But Not Essential.

By joining our team, you will benefit from:

• Strong supportive teams with dedicated supportive leaders
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A service that works to develop clear evidence-based care pathways

You will already possess a broad range of skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including; mobility and falls, rehabilitation of injuries and conditions, pain management, postural care, musculoskeletal, orthopaedic and neurological conditions. Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD to develop skills gaps.

As well as direct interventions and group classes, physiotherapy will be delivered by increasing the skills and competencies of other staff on wards.

You will have support from and work collaboratively within the physiotherapy professional group which spans the whole of Sussex and includes a large team of learning disability physiotherapists, as well as mental health physiotherapists.

You will be collaborating across services to deliver results. We work closely with colleagues in social care, primary care and other specialist secondary services.

This is a great opportunity to use the skills you have developed across a broad range of care pathways.

Working for your organisation

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Sussex.

We encourage flexible working

We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we’ll do our best to make it happen.

We’d love you to join our Trust, rated ‘good’ overall and ‘outstanding’ for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other Key Survey Results

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Working for your organisation Requirements

In order to be a successful Physiotherapist in our team you will be:

• A qualified Physiotherapist, registered with the HCPC
• Experienced in a broad range of areas aforementioned
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lizzy McWilliams Job title: Principal Physiotherapist Email address: [e-mail]