Job summary
- Main area
- Band 6 Physio
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- 15 months (fixed term contract)
- Hours
- Part time - 22.5 hours per week (three working days)
- Job ref
- 350-CC7488806
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Knowsley community therapy team
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 08/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 16/10/2025
Employer heading
Physiotherapist
Band 6
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Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust celebrates diversity and promotes equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnically diverse, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
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Job overview
The post currently available is for fixed term (15mths) covering Knowsley Community therapy team providing support cover for maternity leave. We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist (Physio) to join our service, supporting the patients through shared care within their localities.
The team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational therapist, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. The service responds to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities or support with discharge from the hospital setting. We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate experience within the Physio role, who has the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. You will require sound decision making skills and effective clinical reasoning to provide input to those with long term conditions, palliative patients, musculoskeletal problems (unable to access a clinic), orthopaedic and other neurological disorders.
Main duties of the job
To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge. Gaining consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy utilising shared decision making enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery. Prioritising during triage the designated Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy / assistant practitioners referrals according to need, risk and service capacity. Maintaining timely interventions and completion of supporting documentation / onward referrals, while supporting the team and student education. Be responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced based practice.
Working for our organisation
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.
We offer specialist inpatient and community services that support physical and mental health and specialist inpatient mental health, learning disability, addiction and brain injury services. Mersey Care is one of only three trusts in the UK that offer high secure mental health facilities.
At the heart of all we do is our commitment to ‘perfect care’ – care that is safe, effective, positively experienced, timely, equitable and efficient. We support our staff to do the best job they can and work alongside service users, their families, and carers to design and develop future services together. We’re currently delivering a programme of organisational and service transformation to significantly improve the quality of the services we provide and safely reduce cost as we do so.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To plan and implement patient centred individual interventions,
using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress
and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patient’s social and physical environment.
To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.
To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.
To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard. liaising with family members, carers, GP’s and other professionals when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns
regarding their care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly, referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.
To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.
To monitor and work with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.
Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of Physiotherapy activities and comply with The Chartered Society of
Physiotherapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public healthpolicy.
To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by supervision of sector members’ caseloads and via audit.
To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who
become anxious, hostile or distressed.
To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents and liaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidents are implemented.
To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to remain in their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.
To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS:
Essential criteria
- • Registered Physiotherapist with the HealthProfessions Council
- • Degree in physiotherapy
- • Teaching / Mentorship qualification or equivalent work- based experience
Desirable criteria
- • Membership of professional body
- • Practice placement education qualification
- • Evidence of post registration
- • Study in a field relevant to post
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- • Demonstrate experience of Physiotherapy assessment including complex rehabilitation and decision making
- • Experience of successful team working
- • Experience of liaison with internal and external services and agencies
- • Knowledge and ability to express an understanding of Physiotherapy services
- • Formulation of intervention/treatment plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- • General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- • Having an understanding of clinical and environmental risk assessment
- • Evidence of CPD/short courses
Desirable criteria
- Familiar with Electronic Patient Record
- Experience of service development audit and research practice relevant to the clinical area.
- Experience of being involved in clinical audit and/or research
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness /Enthusiasm
- Change oriented
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
Skills
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge and application of current best practice in physiotherapy in the relevant area practice
- Application of physiotherapy outcome measures and models of practice
- Application of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
- A sound knowledge of the core skills of Physiotherapy and their application in this field
- Ability to communicate effectively with service users within the specific client group
- Good listening skills
- Demonstrate a good knowledge of Health Profession Councils standards
- Demonstrate knowledge of the concepts of mentorship and supervision.
- Evidence of active participation in supervision and the appraisal process
- Experience of group and individual interventions with the specific client group.
- Experience working in a collaborative way with the MDT and service users/carers.
- good time management skills
- Apply and promote physiotherapy skills to include carrying out physiotherapy assessments, setting clear physiotherapy goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions via the provision of meaningful activities
- Able to apply Person Centred approaches.
- Apply clinical skills and able to reflect on own and others practice
- Excellent range of communication skills, able to motivate and support other staff.
- Ability to facilitate presentations
- Self Management and motivation skills
- Risk assessment skills
- IT Literate
- Ability to travel across boundaries
- Awareness of factors contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with the organisational public health policy
- Understanding of partnership working
- Awareness of local agenda in health and social care.
Desirable criteria
- Demonstrate leadership skills to be able to initiate, monitor and implement change and fully participate in the development of physiotherapy service delivery
- Apply professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Paula Burke
- Job title
- Team Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07775015865
- Additional information
Office contact number is 0151 3518520 - if I am out of office, please request to speak with Gigie Peneche
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