Job summary
- Main area
- Therapy Rehabilitation
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday (excluding Bank Holidays) usually 8-4)
- Job ref
- 350-CC7301614
- Employer
- Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- 5 Curzon Road
- Town
- Southport
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 06/07/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 21/07/2025
Employer heading
Technical Instructor
Band 4
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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
You will be joining a friendly, hard-working, motivated and enthusiastic team.
You will be required to work as an active part of The Multi-Disciplinary Team within North Sefton Planned Therapy Service, accepting clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, under the supervision of a qualified therapist, where appropriate. Cases will be allocated following triage by a registered therapist and the post holder will be responsible for the initial assessment, prescription and implementation of specific therapeutic interventions. The post holder will also support registered therapists with specific therapeutic interventions, developing their skills and knowledge within each clinical area.
There are a range of formal and informal training opportunities and a number of apprenticeship opportunities within the organisation each year for Occupational Therapy and Physiotherapy, which may interest those who wish to progress their career in this way
Main duties of the job
You will take responsibility for a designated caseload as an autonomous practitioner assessing for simple equipment or straight-forward rehabilitation needs, identifying risks and escalating concerns according to local and national policies and procedures.
You will be expected to work in an innovative way to support the smooth running of the Service and to be accountable for your own clinical practice. You will provide a high standard of clinical care for individuals and groups within a defined area of the population under the supervision of a registered practitioner. You will liaise with other agencies to promote and maintain the health and wellbeing of the identified client group as appropriate.
You will maintain, develop and evidence your clinical knowledge, skills and competencies at all opportunities and act within the standards, protocols and guidelines for the delivery of care. You will ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes
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
Principal Responsibilities:
1.
Work collaboratively within the team and with other agencies to deliver local and national health priorities and objectives.
2.
Accept clinical responsibility for a manageable caseload, where appropriate.
3.
Be accountable for own clinical practice.
4.
Deliver care in line with national quality standards and Trust policy.
5.
Work within the skills and competencies expected of the role.
6.
Provide clinical support and knowledge to support staff.
7.
Act as an advocate and champion for clients.
8.
Support clinical staff in managing long term conditions.
9.
Organise and facilitate groups and /or individuals to develop self-care skills.
10.
Identify the need for and initiate referrals to internal/external partners, within agreed parameters.
11.
Develop ‘person specific goals’ with individuals, carers and colleagues.
12.
Enable individuals to develop the necessary skills to improve own health and lifestyle.
13.
Contribute to health needs assessment of a defined area of the population.
14.
Undertake risk assessment on a defined patient population in line with relevant guidelines.
15.
Lead on health promotion activities as required.
16.
Undertake clinical tasks, following patient specific direction.
17.
Communicate effectively with patients and carers recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural background and preferred ways of communicating.
18.
Provide leadership, mentorship and role modelling to support staff within the clinical team.
19.
Participate in individual clinical supervision.
20.
Participate in mentorship and clinical supervision with the team.
21.
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation policies and procedures.
22.
Provide information as requested.
23.
Participate in audit as required by the organisation.
24.
Undertake the relevant foundation degree.
25.
Undertake all relevant mandatory training.
26.
Develop and maintain own knowledge and skills through the use of competency frameworks and continuous professional development (CPD) and personal development process (PDP).
27.
The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
28.
The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Foundation Degree or equivalent or equivalent work-based experience
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Assessing, planning and implementing individualised programmes of care
- Understanding local and national influences on health care delivery, including Public Health
- Experience of previous work in health care
- Clinical Governance and Risk Management
- Actively Involved in professional development
- Knowledge of Health Promotion strategies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of developing self care skills in patients/clients
Skills
Essential criteria
- Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills
- Ability to travel to meet requirements of the post
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
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
- Ruth Brookes/Katie Williams
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Therapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01704 387262
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