Senior Physiotherapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Liverpool City Region; On-site; GBP 33,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a committed Band 6 Physiotherapist to join the ICRAS North Liverpool & South Sefton Therapy team. The role supports adults 18+ with complex co-morbidities, delivering high-quality, patient-centred care in urgent and intermediate care settings.

You will work across urgent care services as part of a multidisciplinary team, taking autonomous responsibility for caseloads, and guiding junior staff through supervision and appraisal.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of adults with multiple comorbidities using evidence-based, patient-centred care.
• Provide autonomous clinical assessment, planning, intervention and evaluation.
• Lead junior staff through supervision and appraisal when appropriate.
• Contribute to planning, development and evaluation of physiotherapy services within a designated area.
• Collaborate with other professionals to support early discharge and appropriate care settings.

Job description

ICRAS North Liverpool & South Sefton Therapy team is seeking a committed Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our service, supporting the patients through shared care within their localities. We are seeking a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and proactive therapist to join our team. The service responds to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities. The team support The Urgent Community Response service (UCR), Intermediate Care Bed Base services and Hospital discharges. The service operates 7 days a week, 8am -8pm covering late and weekend working as part of a roster.

The postholder will be required to work flexibly across urgent care services, as needed, to support the effective management of service capacity and demand.

We strive to communicate and collaborate between Integrated care systems to address the health and social care needs across the area, maximising patient independence and preventing hospital admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our multi-disciplinary team. The team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Health Practitioner Assistants, Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Nursing staff and Podiatrist.

The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient’s comorbidities 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 physiotherapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.

The post holder 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 service developments within Urgent and Intermediate Care and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.

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 cost as we do so.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dawn Billington Job title: Operational Manager Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 07876814673

Please contact if you have any further queries regarding the role advertised.