Job summary
- Main area
- Learning Disabilities
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 367-LD&F-3757
- Employer
- Hertfordshire Partnership NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- West Specialist Learning Disability Services
- Town
- Hertfordshire
- Salary
- £50,008 - £56,908 Per annum, Pro rata (5% HCAS Included)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 10/10/2025 08:00
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Learning Disability Physiotherapist
Band 7
Values Based Screener
At Hertfordshire Partnership Foundation Trust we are looking for people to join us who share our values and those of the NHS. Before your application can be considered please take part on our online values questionnaire, which you can find below. When you have finished you will be sent a 'completion code' by email, which will be valid for 6 months and required to submit your application form.
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist to join Specialist Learning Disability Services based in Hertfordshire for a fixed 12 month period (maternity cover).
The successful candidate will work as an influential and integral member of a diverse multi-disciplinary team and will join the Physiotherapy Team .
You will be a highly motivated, experienced clinician and will be able to demonstrate an interest and specialist knowledge in working with this client group. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and be enthusiastic about working as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team.
You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Professional Lead Physiotherapist and will work closely with the Professional Lead to develop Physiotherapy services within learning disabilities across Hertfordshire .
Main duties of the job
Key job roles:
- To provide comprehensive Physiotherapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group.
- To carry a caseload as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.
- To provide clinical leadership to Physiotherapy staff within the service.
- To provide supervision to Physiotherapists and students within the work setting.
- To lead in a specialist area and contribute to the development of specialist service related policies.
Working for our organisation
Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of ‘Outstanding’ from the Care Quality Commission
Our family of over 4,000 members of staff provide health and social care for people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Essex and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. Everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:
Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To provide high quality Physiotherapy and consultation to people within the Specialist Learning Disability Service .
- To manage a complex caseload, using evidence based/client principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in clinic and community settings and on home visits.
- To effectively manage the local waiting list and KPI’s
- To formulate and implement plans for the formal Physiotherapy treatment and/or management of a client's condition and risk based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.
- To provide specialist Physiotherapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a client's formulation, diagnosis and case management plan.
- To provide leadership locally for the Physiotherapists within the Herts Specialist Learning Disability Service.
Person specification
Knowledge, Training and Experience
Essential criteria
- Diploma / degree in Phyiotherapy
- State registration with HCPC
- Fieldwork Educators Qualification
- Evidence of having met the full KSF Gateway for Band 6
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Membership of special interest group
Desirable criteria
- M.S.C.P
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Broad base of clinical experience
- Leadership / Management Training
- Significant Postgraduate Training relevant to Learning Disability
Communication Skills
Essential criteria
- Effective written and oral communication skills
- Understanding of team dynamics
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders
- Supervisory skills
Desirable criteria
- Training and facilitation skills
Analytical Skills
Essential criteria
- Posture management
- Specialist seating
- Assessment of complex disability and respiratory care
- Broad knowledge of current best practice in Physiotherapy and Learning Disability
- Application of the Physiotherapy process with designated client group
- Planning and coordination of treatment packages
- Ability to use problem solving techniques
- Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues
- Applied knowledge of mental health legislation including CPA and risk assessment and Management
- Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.
- Working knowledge of Practice Governance.
Desirable criteria
- Completed Basic Bobath Course
- The ability to demonstrate creative practice Experience of audits/evaluations of interventions and implementation of any subsequent changes to practice
Areas of Experience and knowledge
Essential criteria
- Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in Physiotherapy.
- Experience of learning disability conditions
- Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting
- Understanding of treatments and interventions commonly used in Learning Disability
- Broad base of clinical experience working with people with a Learning Disability
- Understanding of and ability to resolve professional and ethical Issues
- Understanding current Policies and Practice relevant to Learning Disability and their implications for Physiotherapy
- Experience of generic and specialist Physiotherapy assessments and interventions
- Experience of working in some or all of the following areas: Neurology Learning Disability Respiratory Care Moving and Handling Working in community setting
- Experience in providing advice, support and clinical supervision to junior staff and/or students
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge & experience of Recruitment and Selection criteria
- Project Management
- Change Management Skills
- Experience in research or audit
- Effective leadership skills, including the ability to manage conflict, good communication, planning and decision making skills, organisational skills and the ability to innovate in Service Development
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kate Senior
- Job title
- West SLDS service manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01923 837044
- Additional information
Working Hours: 09;00 am until 15;15 hours on a Monday
09;00am until 17;00hrs Tuesday to Friday
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