Senior Physiotherapist - Specialist Outpatients Rehab

Transformationunitgm; Liverpool; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job description

Employer Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site Aintree University Hospital

Town Liverpool

Salary £46,148 - £52,809 per annum, pro rata

Salary period Yearly

Closing 06/04/2025 23:59

Senior Physiotherapist - Specialist Outpatients Rehab

Band 7

Job overview

An excellent opportunity has arisen for an experienced rehabilitation physiotherapist to join our Outpatient Rehab Gym team. You will work with a wide variety of patients including those with neurological conditions, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy and generalised deconditioning, who require bespoke and personalised rehabilitation within the outpatient setting.

You will work with and receive peer support from B7, B6 and B3 colleagues and have clinical supervision with our neuro physiotherapy advanced practitioner. There will be opportunities for personal and professional development identified through your supervision and appraisals.

As a recently integrated department, you will work collaboratively with the existing team and key stakeholders to shape and develop the service provided to patients across the city.

As such, you will need to have excellent communication skills, experience of service development and the ability to ensure service delivery.

Main duties of the job

1. To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communications via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.
2. To manage and provide effective leadership of therapy staff.
3. To manage and develop physiotherapy input to provide optimal patient care ensuring high standards of clinical practice.

Working for our organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1. To liaise with the Therapy Manager providing specialist advice on the planning and development of the service.
2. To represent Therapy Services on any service development working parties / meetings as appropriate.
3. To support the leading of regular staff meetings and facilitate good communication between the department and Trust both on Trust and National issues ensuring effective dissemination of information.
4. To provide expert advice to colleagues.
5. To monitor activity and support production/analysis of data for clinical speciality.
6. Where necessary, to take appropriate action to ensure activity and waiting list targets are achieved within the service.
7. To assess the Therapy equipment required for the department.
8. To actively participate in the professional development programme of the physiotherapy /therapy department.
9. To undertake appraisals and development reviews within the therapy team.
10. To contribute to the induction of new therapy staff.
11. To attend relevant training courses and complete yearly appraisal and personal development plans in order to maintain clinical and managerial competence.
12. To disseminate information from training attended as required.
13. To train and supervise students on clinical placement.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc in Physiotherapy
• Grad.Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Current registration with HCPC
• Post Graduate courses in Management at various levels/equivalent
• Post-Graduate courses in a variety of specialities/clinical education

Experience

• Experience working in various specialities and in management roles.

Knowledge

• Experience in conducting audit
• Experience in conducting or supporting Research projects

Skills

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Forward thinking with knowledge of current NHS/speciality issues
• Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others.
• Ability to manage and work as part of MDT
• Able to handle difficult, sensitive and emotional situations.
• Ability to think quickly, assess clinical situations and take decisions upon that information.

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to ‘internal staff’ are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce: black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults’ policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers) are expected to maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.