About this role
Job summary
Are you an experienced physiotherapist?
Are you passionate about body mechanics, movement, rehabilitation, and the beauty of the link between physical and mental health?
Then we are looking for you! We want someone who loves a challenge, is inquisitive and who approaches clinical cases as holistic puzzles to be navigated. Someone who is brave enough to push the boundaries of service development, but who is experienced enough to reflect upon their own development needs, in this emerging specialism and unconventional clinical environment.
We are an Inpatient Mental Health Physiotherapy service dedicated to delivering excellent care. We work to combine Musculoskeletal, Orthopaedic, Neurological, Falls Management, and Rehabilitation physiotherapy, with specific mental health skills, to support our service uses to maximise their independence and quality of life.
As a team we are all about service development and collaboration, we welcome healthy debate and listen to our stakeholders to ensure our therapy is co-produced.
Main duties of the job
We appreciate that not all Physiotherapists will have a working knowledge of Mental Health specialist skills. Therefore, you will be supported by our team of experienced staff, clinical specialists & Lead Physiotherapist, to expand upon your transferrable skills to build your mental health clinical practice. You will develop person centred innovative therapy techniques in a supportive MDT environment.
Our ideal candidate is someone who is able to:
o Conduct thorough, evidence-based & person-centred physiotherapy assessment, treatment & rehabilitation
o Monitor patient progress, adapting treatment plans as required
o Maintain accurate clinical records in line with professional standards. Including risk assessments, care plans & reports
o Work independently and collaboratively within a wider therapy and Multidisciplinary Team, contributing to clinical excellence & patient wellbeing
o Use excellent communication, organization, & interpersonal skills
o Educate patients & families on safety, relapse prevention & self-management strategies
o Participate in your own Continuous Professional Development (CPD) & contribute to team learning via structured CPD opportunities including, Inservice Training, Journal Club, Peer Supervision & Observed Practice
o Provide leadership to Physiotherapists & support staff, including clinical & professional supervision & appraisal
o Support staff management, including, rostering, operational supervision & management
About us
We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people's homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.
Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:
72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question. 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region. 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust's priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.
Job description Job responsibilities
To engage in specialist physiotherapy assessments and plan relevant care in partnership with service users.
To carry out risk assessment, along with the multi-disciplinary team. .
To be responsible for providing a wide range of specialist physiotherapy treatment interventions to service users.
To hold responsibility for the assessment, prescription, risk assessment, care planning of standard and specialist equipment.
To formulate and cascade advance manual handling associated with the use of specialist equipment.
To engage in holistic patient centred care in the formulation of treatment and goal setting. To include effective communication with patients, carers and health care staff.
To continually evaluate outcomes and reassess treatment plans and risk assessments as the patients condition changes, from both a physical and mental health perspective.
To actively participate in multi-agency patient planning meetings, patient reviews, ward and department meetings.
To work as an autonomous practitioner and manage a designated patient caseload and to be responsible for prioritisation and planning.
To take a lead on complex cases.
To support and advise the Physiotherapy and Health and Exercise Team in the assessment and treatment of complex cases, to include the triaging and allocation of workload to staff.
To advise carers, the MDT and outside agencies, including primary care professionals, in matters related to specialist intervention and care.
To be a leading member of the physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary teams in-service training programme. Including mentorship and preceptorship, in-service training, peer supervision, journal club and observed practise. This will also include the assessment of competencies within scope of practise.
To contribute to the planning and development of the service by developing new initiatives inline with local and national policies. This may include professional and team objectives, development of policies, standards, audit and evaluation of evidence-based practice.
To act as a Clinical Educator to undergraduate students, complete educator training, undertaking assessment in line with their placement objectives and liaising appropriately with their university tutors.
To deputise for the team manager in their absence.
The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.
The Trust is required to work in line with the Governments UK Visa and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information about sponsorship for certain roles, please visit - https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas
Person Specification
Qualifications Essential
Degree in Physiotherapy HCPC registration
Desirable
Post Registration or Post graduate studies in the specific field of mental health Membership to a relevant professional body e.g. CSP
Experience Essential
Range of clinical experience across a variety of clinical areas Experience at a post-qualification level working with individuals living with mental health challenges. Well defined leadership skills including experience of supervising staff
Desirable
Experience of leading training and case presentation
Knowledge Essential
Ability to adapt and transfer physiotherapy skills into the field of mental health
Desirable
Knowledge of functional and organic mental health conditions
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.
Certificate of Sponsorship Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
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 Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Address Wotton Lawn Hospital
Horton Road
Gloucester
GL1 3WL
Employer's website https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/ (Opens in a new tab)