Specialist Physiotherapist

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust; Knowsley; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in the UK is seeking a motivated Physiotherapist to join their community team in Knowsley. The role involves managing a complex patient caseload and providing high-quality care in various community settings. Candidates should have therapy experience and a passion for patient-centered care. This is an opportunity to develop skills in a supportive team while contributing to service improvement initiatives.

Qualifications

• Passion for providing high-quality therapy and care.
• Ability to manage complex patient caseloads autonomously.
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients with complex co-morbidities.
• Lead junior staff through supervision and appraisal.
• Participate in planning and evaluating service improvements.

Skills

Motivated with therapy experience

Strong leadership

Evidence-based practice

Job description

About the Service

Liverpool Community Physiotherapy service provides therapy and rehabilitation in patients homes. We aim to promote independence and improve quality of life for people with physical problems caused by accidents, ageing, disease or disability. These include respiratory conditions, orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions, mobility issues, neurological conditions and those receiving palliative care.

We're Looking for

If you're motivated, with therapy experience and skills, a passion to be part this service, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you.

Role Summary

The role involves working across Liverpool community teams (North, Central, South, Neuro, Rehab at Home, Care homes and Falls) on a rotational basis to provide support to our patients in their homes and other community settings, which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.

Team and Culture

We're a very supportive team with physiotherapists and assistant practitioners who work closely with our occupational therapy colleagues.

Main Duties

The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patients with multiple and often complex co-morbidities 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 services provided, holding responsibility for defined service improvement projects.

The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality therapy and care to a caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidence based practice.

Trust Information

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.

Our Commitment

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.