About this role
Job summary
We are excited to offer a fixed-term opportunity for a motivated Physiotherapist to join the Specialist Learning Disability team, currently covering Boston, Skegness, and Louth, although you may need to cover service-wide as needed.
This post provides the opportunity for someone with post qualification experience or newly qualified, who has an interest in working with adults with learning disabilities and complex health needs.
Within this role you will work as part of a well-established multi-disciplinary team, offering a range of specialist health interventions to people with a learning disability within their place of normal residence, respite and day care placements.
Please note the vacancy may close earlier than the original date.
Main duties of the job
You will support the provision of Physiotherapy for adults with Learning Disabilities across 3 core pathways: mental health, positive behaviour support and physical health.
The role includes clinical assessment, care planning and appropriate clinical decision-making skills. Being a compassionate, organised, team player with excellent communication skills and effective time management skills are key, as well as being accountable for your own caseload management and being able to identify physiotherapy interventions which you will joint work with staff within the team to deliver.
Enthusiasm and motivation are just as important as your experience for this role, as full training can be provided for a successful applicant with the relevant qualifications.
About us
Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust provides mental health services and a number of learning disability, autism and social care services in the county of Lincolnshire. Employing around 2,800 staff, and serving a population of over 766,000, our people lie at the heart of everything we do.
You could be part of a Trust rated by staff as one of the best mental health and learning disability trusts in England, in an area heralded as a fantastic place to live and work. We firmly believe the key to high quality care is a contented workforce. This is reflected in our Care Quality Commission rating of 'outstanding' for well-led and 'good' overall. In the most recent National NHS Staff Survey, our staff rated us as the number one trust nationally for staff morale and one of the top scoring NHS Trusts in the Midlands for being compassionate and inclusive. We're really proud of this!
We are also leading the way in transforming care, with multi-million-pound transformation of patient environments and radical redesign of community services.
This is the time to join and help redesign our services of the future. We offer options for flexible working and provide a wide range of training and promotion opportunities in all professions. We support and celebrate diversity, have active staff networks groups and are always looking at what more we can do to support our staff.
Job description Job responsibilities
We can also offer you many staff benefits to help support you which include:
Early access to Psychological Therapies and Physiotherapy
Competitive annual leave allowance
Car leasing scheme
NHS pension scheme
Free eye tests
Money saving options through our salary sacrifice scheme
Discounts on major high street retailers and restaurants
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
BSc Hons in Physiotherapy or post graduate diploma in Physiotherapy. HCPC registered Physiotherapist
Desirable
Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy CPD evidence
Experience Essential
Experience working in a healthcare provider organisation as a physiotherapist (or student placement)
Desirable
Experience of working with Adults with Learning disabilities. Experience of working as a qualified Physiotherapist
Skills Essential
Clinical reasoning skills. Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written skills alone with clear logical presentation skills. Knowledge of clinical/risk assessment and understanding of Information Governance principles. Ability to work independently and collectively.
Desirable
Supervision of junior staff. Experience of completing mobility assessments Experience of completing initial assessments and risk assessments.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer details Employer name Lincolnshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
Address Beech House
Toot Lane
Boston
PE21 0AX
United Kingdom
Employer's website https://www.lpft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)