Senior Physiotherapist

Lancashire and South Cumbria Foundation Trust; Lancashire; On-site; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare foundation in the United Kingdom is seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join its mental health inpatient services. The role involves providing specialist physiotherapy within a dedicated team, focusing on clinical leadership and service development. Candidates should be committed to person-centred care and aimed at professional growth. This position offers opportunities for flexible working patterns to enhance work/life balance.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Support for professional growth

Diverse and inclusive workplace

Qualifications

• Desirable interest in frailty, falls prevention, or physical health within mental health.
• Commitment to delivering high quality, person-centred care.
• Ability to work autonomously and contribute to service development.

Responsibilities

• Provide high standard physiotherapy input to the mental health team.
• Assess and treat inpatients in an autonomous role.
• Develop individualized treatment programs for diverse patient needs.
• Hold responsibility for own complex caseload.
• Supervise and assess physiotherapy students.
• Participate in evidence-based audits and research.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Service development

Autonomous practice

Job description

Overview

We are delighted to offer an opportunity for an enthusiastic, motivated and forward thinking Physiotherapist to join our adult mental health inpatient services across The Bay Network. This role forms part of our growing Allied Health Professional (AHP) workforce, working alongside Dietetics, Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy. This post forms part of the Mental Health Inpatient Physiotherapy Team, who provide specialist physiotherapy input across all mental health inpatient wards within the LSCFT footprint. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to clinical leadership, service development, and the ongoing professional growth of the team.

We are seeking an individual who is keen to build on their clinical and leadership skills and contribute to a culture of learning, excellence and development within the AHP community. A specialist interest in frailty, falls prevention, or physical health in mental health would be desirable, though not essential. Most importantly, you will be committed to delivering high quality, person centred care and will be supported to reach your full potential as both a clinician and a developing leader.

LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation. Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask. We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services. LSCFT support 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 and flexi-time.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Sam Bennett Job title: Consultant Physiotherapist Email address: [e-mail]

Responsibilities

• Provide a high standard of specialist physiotherapy input to the mental health physiotherapy team. Hours required to be worked over 5 days, Monday to Friday, between 08:30am and 16:30pm, depending on service need.
• Assess and treat inpatients within an inpatient ward setting as an autonomous practitioner.
• Physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
• Hold responsibility for own complex caseload and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision.
• The post holder will ensure their own personal development and participate in the development of others.
• To supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the degree standard.
• Undertake evidence-based audit and contribute to research projects. Make recommendations to clinical lead/manager for service improvement.

Qualifications and desirable skills

• A specialist interest in frailty, falls prevention, or physical health in mental health would be desirable, though not essential.
• Commitment to delivering high quality, person-centred care and to professional growth as a clinician and developing leader.
• Ability to work autonomously within inpatient wards and contribute to service development.
• Experience in supervising or educating students and contributing to practice teaching.