Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
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An Exciting Opportunity with Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated and creative individual to join the Learning Disabilities Service for Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust. You will be based with the Halton Community Learning Disability Team and cover the population of Halton (Widnes and Runcorn).
About the Role
Working within this established multi disciplinary team, the post holder will provide specialist Physiotherapy assessment and intervention as part of a team approach to supporting service users with learning disabilities and complex needs.
As part of an Highly Specialist Physiotherapist’s role, you will be in an ideal position to support and contribute to Physiotherapy/Learning Disabilities Strategic and Team Development.
Being part of Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust, you will be given opportunity to network across different learning disabilities services and liaise with other PT’s and AHP’s within the wider Trust linking into the AHP workforce.
Key Responsibilities
- Operate within the principles of continuous quality improvement.
- Monitor and critically analyse relevant data to help support and implement change.
- Participate as an active member of the MDT in developing and delivering high quality and innovative services.
- Promote effective teamwork, delegating activities appropriately, to the benefit of the patient and service delivery.
- Effectively manage a specialist and complex caseload of patient’s co-morbidities as an autonomous practitioner.
- Take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients.
- Work in partnership with other professionals and agencies to enable patients/clients to be maintained in an appropriate environment.
- Work within Trust clinical guidelines, HCPC and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) guidelines.
- Have a working knowledge of national and local standards and monitor own practice against these.
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About Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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.
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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
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Jane Birchall-Smith
- Job title: Operational Manager/Principal OT
- Email address: jane.birchall-smith@merseycare.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 351 8899
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