Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 350-CC7519286
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- V7 building,
- Town
- Prescot
- Salary
- £31,049 - £37,796 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 14/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Rotational B5 Physiotherapist
Band 5
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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
We are seeking enthusiastic and passionate registered Physiotherapy candidates who are keen to consolidate and continue to develop their core Physiotherapy skills and practise.
The Band 5 Physiotherapy Rotation is Trust Wide and offers candidates the opportunity to work within Physical Health, in services across the Merseycare footprint, enabling opportunities within community and in-patient provision. The rotations cover MSK, Community services, Intermediate care, Falls services, Respiratory, Neurology and Paediatrics.
As a valued member of the Physiotherapy workforce, training, CPD, supervision and preceptorship opportunities are available as standard to support you on your Physiotherapy career journey in order to develop holistic skills sets.
Main duties of the job
The successful post holders will join a varied and well-established Band 5 Physiotherapy 6 monthly rotational programme.
You will be using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the service user group.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality Physiotherapy to a defined caseload.
You will work in partnership with other professionals and as an integral member of the Physiotherapy teams and wider MDT, supporting service user's and their families and carer's side by side.
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
The successful post holders will join a varied and well-established Band 5 Physiotherapy 6 monthly rotational programme.
You will be using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the service user group.
The post holder will take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality Physiotherapy to a defined caseload.
You will work in partnership with other professionals and as an integral member of the Physiotherapy teams and wider MDT, supporting service user's and their families and carer's side by side.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
See job description for details and main responsibilities. If you would value an informal conversation/information gathering please contact as below.
Person specification
Qualification
Essential criteria
- Registered AHP relevant to your profession with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- Enhanced DBS Disclosure
Desirable criteria
- Membership of professional body
Knowledge/ Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of relevant Therapy assessments
- Experience of successful team working
- Experience of liaison with internal and external services and agencies
- Knowledge and ability to express an understanding of therapeutic process including formulation of intervention plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance
- Have an understanding of clinical and environmental risk assessment
- Evidence of CPD/Short courses
Desirable criteria
- Experience of planning and facilitating therapeutic groups for patients / clients
- Experience of service Development
- Experience of being involved in clinical audit and/or research
- Familiar with Electronic Patient Records Management and clinical leadership
- A basic understanding of Relevant legislation including The Mental Capacity Act
Skills
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge and application of current best practice in relevant area of practice
- Application of therapeutic Outcome measures and Models of practice
- A sound knowledge of the core skills and their application in this field
- Be able to communicate effectively with service users and staff
- Have good listening skills
- Demonstrates a good knowledge of the Health and Care Profession Councils standards of Proficiency and the therapeutic responsibility to identify gaps in their knowledge base
- 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 therapeutic skills, to include carrying out assessments, setting clear reablement goals and facilitating a wide variety of therapeutic interventions
- Apply clinical skills and able to reflect on own and others practice
- 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 development of service delivery • Apply Professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies 04/08/2023 of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy
- 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 service delivery
- Apply Professional skills to enable MDT working partnerships and liaise with external agencies
Values
Essential criteria
- Continuous Improvement
- Accountability
- Respectfulness
- Enthusiasm
- Support
- High professional standards
- Responsive to service users
- Engaging leadership style
- Strong customer service belief
- Transparency and honesty
- Discreet
- Change oriented
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
- John Moane
- Job title
- Physiotherapy Professional Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07795370187
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