Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 409-7306238
- Employer
- Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ormskirk
- Town
- Ormskirk
- Salary
- £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/07/2025 23:59
Employer heading
MSK Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
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Job overview
To assess and treat patients within the therapy outpatient MSK setting.
To assist Clinical Therapy Manager/Team Leader in service development and the provision of an effective and quality service for the patient population we serve.
To take responsibility for junior members of staff and delegate duties as necessary, always providing appropriate level of support.
To meet the Therapy Outpatient Service objectives.
To cover for absence when required and appropriate within the Outpatient Therapy Department at Southport & Ormskirk Hospital Trust.
Main duties of the job
To assess and identify the individual needs of referred patients, to clinically diagnose and implement treatment plans if appropriate in a manner that respects people’s privacy, dignity, individuality utilising shared decision making.
In accordance with best practice, implement and evaluate Therapy Intervention.
To record and report findings appropriately following the standard procedures used by the department to maintain high levels of written/verbal communication.
To share skills/knowledge with other disciplines and patient/carers as necessary.
To liaise with hospital/ primary care-based staff as appropriate to ensure continuity of treatment and provision of equipment/adaptations to facilitate rehabilitation/ re-enablement to achieve shared patient goals and effective outcomes.
To provide and receive complex information which requires empathy and reassurance. Communicating where there may be barriers to understanding and where skills such as motivational interviewing and counselling are required.
To be aware of and identify changes in service demand and report to senior staff.
Working for our organisation
Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust serves a population of over 600,000 with a workforce of over 10,500 dedicated and skilled staff across 21 sites.
We strongly believe that the communities we serve should all have access to Five Star Patient Care.
Our services:
Acute Care
Providing emergency and maternity services at Whiston, Southport and Ormskirk hospitals, and medical and surgical specialties across all our sites.
Primary Care
Providing primary care services at Marshalls Cross Medical Centre situated in St Helens Hospital.
Community Services
Providing adult community services for St Helens and a wheelchair service in Chorley, South Ribble, and West Lancashire. Our inpatient unit at Newton Community Hospital is where patients needing acute hospital beds can continue rehabilitation. We also provide urgent care at our Urgent Treatment Centre located in St Helens town centre.
Specialist Regional Services
We provide the Mersey Regional Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit at Whiston Hospital and the Spinal Injuries Unit at Southport Hospital to more than 4 million people across the whole of Merseyside, West Lancashire, Cheshire, Isle of Man and North Wales.
Achievements:
- Rated Outstanding by CQC Inspection August 2018
- Top 100 places to work in the NHS (NHS Employers & Health Service Journal)
- National Preceptorship Accreditation (2023) for Nursing & AHP Preceptorship Programme
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To provide professional practice education of Therapy students on placement and to assist in the education and development of other health professionals.
To actively assist in the promotion of Therapy through professional practice and delegated activities.
To ensure continued professional development including attendance at relevant postgraduate training and actively participating in in-service training.
To keep an up-to-date Personal Development Plan and Professional Development Portfolio.
To comply with the HPC Standards and Code of Professional Conduct.
To participate in activity around clinical audit and work towards initiatives within department/service/directorate as appropriate.
To ensure treatments offered to patients are based on the best available clinical evidence.
To ensure compliance to all Trust Risk Management, Research Governance and Infection Control Policies and Procedures and abide by the Standards for Better Health
Undertake appropriate mandatory training in infection control and comply with all Trust Infection Control Policies relevant to the post, particularly with regard to the Hand Hygiene Policy.
To comply with any statutory requirements imposed on the Trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
- Current HCPC registration
- Evidence of relevant post-graduate courses/CPD
Desirable criteria
- Fieldwork / Practice Educator qualification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Post qualification experience in NHS and MSK Field
- Membership / participant of Special Interest Groups if applicable
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication skills, ability to share information at MDT case conference experience, able to deal with conflict resolution
- Ability to work autonomously independently and with MDT
- Awareness of up-to-date NHS issues, Clinical Governance and its application with therapy
- Ability to manage change in a flexible, diplomatic, and positive manner
- Maintain own clinical role and be aware of boundaries with other professionals.
- Have a wide range of good clinical reasoning skills, assessment and treatment skills and be able to problem solve and make decisions
- Ability to delegate appropriately and supervise other staff and support senior staff as necessary
- Effective teaching and presentation skills
- The post holder will often have to overcome barriers to communication such as illiteracy, learning difficulties, hearing and sight impairment, language and may have to work with interpreters.
Other
Essential criteria
- Occasional requirement to exert moderate physical effort for short periods during a given time when moving and transferring patients.
- Required to concentrate when carrying out care. Work is generally predictable but occasional requirement to deal with unpredictable emergency situations
- Working closely with complex patients and their carers
- Supporting patients, carers and families who have been given bad news
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Atherton
- Job title
- Service Lead and Consultant Physio
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01695 656409
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