Physiotherapist

Job summary

Physiotherapist

Mental Health Network

Salary: Band 5

Hours: 30 hours per week/part time

Base: The Harbour Blackpool

The Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust is a rewarding place to work as a Physiotherapist. We have sound professional structures to lead and inspire our Physiotherapy workforce of over 90 employees.

Our established and growing Mental Health Physiotherapy service provides an excellent opportunity to work alongside dedicated professionals providing high quality care to our mental health inpatients, not only within the Harbour Hospital but within several other mental health inpatient units across our network. This is a rare and unique opportunity to further develop and broaden your skills.

As a Physiotherapist in our mental health team, you will provide physiotherapy intervention across four older adult wards in the harbour and also to our younger adult wards when required.

Main duties of the job

There will be opportunities to get involved in our other mental health units across the trust. You will see patients with a variety of physical conditions, some with very complex needs who require ongoing mental health treatment. The Physiotherapy team comprises of qualified physiotherapists and physiotherapy assistants who work closely with occupational therapists, therapy workers, health and well-being workers, speech therapists, psychologists, consultants and nursing staff.

We are looking to recruit a dedicated, enthusiastic, ambitious and confident physiotherapist who is able to think outside the box and who has excellent communication skills. Experience of working in mental health is desirable but not essential. It would be beneficial however to have good ground knowledge in the different aspects of physiotherapy, specific mental health conditions and the impact this has on our physical health. In return you will have clinical and management supervision from your team lead, specialist support by experienced senior staff and colleagues, continuing professional development and access to specialist physiotherapy forums.

The Mental Health Team are led by a multidisciplinary management team, including a Professional Lead for physiotherapy. This is a rare opportunity and an exciting time to join our dynamic team as a physiotherapy clinician, to be involved in developing our innovative services.

About us

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care.

The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as; term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

For more information please visit our website via Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS FT

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached the job description and person specification for more information about this role

Person Specification

Education

Essential

HCPC Registration Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Desirable

Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Knowledge

Essential

Ability to work effectively within an MDT Evidence of supervision of assistant staff / students Knowledge and appreciation of lone working risks

Experience

Essential

Treatment of a broad range of conditions. Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.

Desirable

Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working.

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