Mental Health Practitioner
1 month ago
Joining #TeamNELFT means you’ll become part of a welcoming and supportive working environment. We’re CQC rated Good, and we want you to join us on the journey towards an Outstanding rating. NELFT has sites across North East London, Essex, Kent and Medway. We provide community and mental healthcare services to adults and children within these areas.
The Trust has award winning equality and diversity initiatives and staff health and wellbeing activities. We invest heavily in your development, because when you are valued and supported, we provide the best care to our patients. We are a Level 3 Disability Confident Leader, have been featured in the Working Families Top 10 Employers benchmark for three consecutive years, and we have achieved a Carers UK Level 1 Accreditation. Along with our staff networks and training opportunities, we work hard to embed a just and compassionate culture here at NELFT.
Find out more about NELFT careers and what makes our Trust a great place to work, in this video
Job overview
Do you want to be part of an innovative, dynamic organisation that is committed to delivering the best care by the best people? We are looking to appoint people who are as passionate about high quality care as we are.
We are looking for an applicant with recent NHS experience particularly within rehabilitation.
PLEASE NOTE DUE TO THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS RECEIVED, THIS IS LIKELY TO CLOSE EARLY.
Main duties of the job
NELFT provides award winning community and mental healthcare for over 2 million people. We work to ensure our patients, their friends and family, feel confident that their health needs are well met. With an excellent reputation for research and development, our skilled health professionals are at the cutting edge of evidence-based innovation, opening up the possibilities for better ways of working and delivery of care.
We are committed to the delivering the best care for our patients. The successful candidate will share this commitment and demonstrate our Trust values.
We are committed to continuous learning to improve patient outcomes so this means that we are also committed to the professional development of our workforce. We want to ensure you have the opportunity to grow and progress within NELFT, so take the first step on this journey by joining us now.
We have an exciting opening for a Band 5 physiotherapist to come and work with our friendly team on Thorndon ward, Brentwood Community Hospital who provides a multi-disciplinary inpatient therapy service for adults over 18.
Working for our organisation
COVID-19 Vaccination
We continue to encourage all staff to ensure that they have been double vaccinated and received their booster. We recognise that taking the vaccine provides the best defence against COVID 19 for our patients, our staff and their families.
Probationary Period
This post will be subject to a probationary period. Internal applicants are exempt from the probationary period (unless you are an internal applicant currently part way through a probationary period or currently a bank member of staff).
Starting with NELFT
NELFT place a great deal of importance on new starters being properly welcomed and inducted into the Trust. All new starters will join the Trust on the first Monday of each month and will undertake a comprehensive induction of up to two weeks which will include mandatory training, systems training and the allocation of equipment. As part of the process new starters will have the opportunity to also meet the executive team, senior managers and attend a number of drop in sessions focusing in engagement, health and wellbeing and key processes. The induction will be held at our head office in Rainham, Essex.
High Cost Area Supplement – London
This post also attracts payment for High Cost Area Supplement of 5% of the basic salary (minimum payment of £1,192 and a maximum payment of £2,011 per annum pro rata).
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
If you are a forward thinking physiotherapist, who has sound decision making skills and effective clinical reasoning, and wish to work as part of an supportive inpatient multidisciplinary team this is the position for you.
The post holder will be responsible for the provision of physiotherapy assessment, intervention and discharge planning of patients with variety of conditions. You will also need to work inter-dependently with other members of the multi-disciplinary team in order to provide a patient-centred service, working to identify holistic patient goals and rehabilitation plans. You will be supported by senior physiotherapists in the hospital and will be clinical supervision and professional physiotherapists.
Various training and development opportunities are available within the organisation to ensure you are supported in your role. We look forward to receiving your application.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
Recent experience of working in the NHS. Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team. Involvement in Audit / Research / Quality or Governance issues
Desirable criteria
Student experience of core rotation in elderly care and any one of surgical, orthopaedic or neurology
Qualifications
Essential criteria
Diploma or Degree in physiotherapy Registration with Health and Care Professions Council
Skills
Essential criteria
Ability to carry out appraisal and supervision Effective verbal and written communication skills, including writing patient notes and provision of accurate and legible reports. Ability to make autonomous decisions and work unsupervised, setting own and others priorities.
Desirable criteria
Able to carry out moderate physical exercise throughout the day and carry out concurrent activities.Benefits
We believe in bringing your authentic and best self to work, in order to deliver the best care to our patients. We are committed to supporting our employees holistically. Here is a snapshot of what is on offer at NELFT:
A long-standing and award-winning approach to equality and diversity with supportive networks for ethnic minority staff, staff with disabilities or long term/chronic conditions and LGBT staff. A commitment to supporting colleagues to achieve a work life balance, through flexible working opportunities and our effortsto support our working parents and carers. This has resulted in us being recognised as a ‘Top 10 Family Friendly Employer’ from the Working Families Charity. Proactive health and wellbeing support, including access to our employee assistance programme, staff psychological support, individual wellbeing conversations and a network of health and wellbeing ambassadors. Detailed information about our wellbeing and benefits offer can be found in this link.As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s a job share, part time hours or another flexible pattern.
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