Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
Specialist Mental Health Physiotherapist
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Job Title: Band 6 Mental Health Specialist Physiotherapist
About the Role
We are seeking to recruit a flexible, dynamic, and motivated Band 6 Mental Health Specialist Physiotherapist with mental health clinical skills, knowledge, and experience to take on opportunities within older adult community mental health services within the City CMHT. This is an opportunity to diversify and expand your skill set to work within and across multidisciplinary teams to enable and drive high quality effective, accessible physiotherapy care.
Key Responsibilities
- Provision of specific assessments, formulation, and interventions
- Working collaboratively with patients, their carers/families, and partnership organisations to develop creative, goal-oriented, physiotherapy plans
- Working flexibly and autonomously responding to service needs
- Supporting junior staff and peers in their development
- Providing high-quality holistic evidence-based care to patients/service users with mental health needs that is responsive, effective, and efficient
- Facilitating and supporting timely discharge and preventing inappropriate admissions by supporting patients/service users to remain as independent as possible and maintain or improve their level of function and quality of life
- Working autonomously, often as the only physiotherapist in a multidisciplinary team, with patients/service users with complex multifactorial needs
- Promoting the specialist role of physiotherapy within your team to include service planning and development, supervision of non-registered therapy staff
- Being proactive in delivering anticipatory and responsive care, promoting independence, healthy lifestyle, reduction in health inequalities to improve the overall quality of life in the local population
- Offering a comprehensive physiotherapy service to patients/service users, providing a multi-disciplinary and multi-agency approach to maximise patient function, well-being, and self-care planning
- Working closely with patients/service users and their carers using a recovery and positive risk-taking approach
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About Us
#TeamNottsHC comprises over 11,000 dedicated colleagues who #MakeADifference every day. We deliver intellectual disability, mental health, community health, forensic, and offender healthcare services across Nottinghamshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, and South Yorkshire. Our care is provided from over 200 sites, spanning community locations, acute settings, and secure environments, including prisons.
We are one of the largest mental health and community Trusts in the East Midlands and one of Nottinghamshire's biggest employers. We also host national and regional services, such as the National High Secure Deaf Service and the Nottingham Centre for Transgender Health.
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We offer a variety of employee-led staff networks, including Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) groups, the Green Champions network, the Freedom to Speak Up network, the Health and Wellbeing Champions network, and the Menopause Champions network. These networks play a vital role in supporting our diverse workforce and promoting a culture of inclusivity.
The health and wellbeing of our colleagues is a top priority. We invest significantly in this through our in-house occupational health and staff counselling services, supported by a dedicated Health and Wellbeing team.
The Trust is committed to reducing its carbon emissions, with a specialised Energy and Environmental team working to ensure compliance with environmental legislation, enhance our environmental performance, and achieve our net-zero commitment.
Contact
For further details/informal visits, contact:
- Name: Hannah Beiscak
- Job title: Team Leader
- Email address: hannah.beiscak@nottshc.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 01158760100
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