Assistant Practitioner (Physiotherapy) in Morpeth

Job summary

The Secure Care CBU is a regional service offering care and treatment to individuals who have mental health, personality disorder or learning disability diagnoses and have come into contact with the criminal justice system. The service works across medium and low secure inpatient wards, the community and prison.

We are looking for a highly motivated, dynamic, and enthusiastic individual who has a definite interest in working within our Secure Care Physiotherapy Inpatients Team.

This diverse role involves providing support to a Band 8a Physiotherapy Lead working in our Medium and Low Secure Mental Health Units, providing physiotherapy assessments under set protocols and parameters and delivering both 1:1 and group-based treatment sessions.

The role is flexible and you will work closely with the physiotherapy lead and other members of the Multi-Disciplinary Team.

Main duties of the job

Physiotherapy has a very important role to play in helping those with mental health diagnoses and individuals with a learning disability. We provide physiotherapy assessments and treatment for musculoskeletal and neurological presentations, also for balance and mobility issues and occasionally respiratory problems.

Our assessments identify the physiotherapy requirements for these patients. Individual patient centred treatment plans are then formulated and appropriate treatment is provided.

Main Duties are as follows:

• To assist in the delivery of physiotherapy care to service users who have a variety of needs, diverse presentations, and a range of mental health, learning disabilities and /or neurological conditions under the direction of a registered physiotherapist. The overall responsibility for the service user remains, at all times with the registered physiotherapist.
• To implement and evaluate physiotherapy programmes within a prescribed framework ensuring that high quality, individualised treatment is delivered. These programmes should promote recovery and wellbeing and maximises independence.
• To work as a member of the multidisciplinary team
• To provide compassionate care that is based on empathy, kindness, respect and dignity.
• To actively engage with supervision and appraisal process as identified in Trust policy.
• To support the induction, training, education and assessment of trainee or new assistant practitioners, students and clinical support workers.

About us

We aim to attract and retain a diverse, talented and committed workforce, who are caring and compassionate, and therefore able to meet the demands of the modern NHS now and in the future. In return we can offer a dynamic working environment in which to build a career.