This 12-month fixed-term post is a specialist physiotherapy role in the inpatient rehabilitation service of Cumbria, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust. The work centres on assessing and managing people with complex, enduring mental health conditions, often alongside learning disabilities or neurological needs, as part of a multidisciplinary team. It is a mental health physiotherapy specialism that also involves developing evidence-based core pathways through research and quality improvement. Registration with the HCPC is required.
What the job involves
- Provide specialist physiotherapy assessment and management to people with complex, enduring mental health conditions
- Deliver physiotherapy for service users with mental health, learning disability and/or neurological conditions within the multidisciplinary team
- Develop and implement evidence-based core pathways within the inpatient rehabilitation service
- Use research, innovation and quality improvement to shape service development alongside clinical leads
Qualifications
- Recognised physiotherapy degree or equivalent
- Further relevant post-qualifying training
Registration & licences
- State registration with the HCPC
Experience
- Proven post-registration clinical experience relevant to the post
- Experience of working within a multidisciplinary team
- Experience of providing physiotherapy services
- Proven ability to manage a clinical caseload flexibly as required
- Experience of supervising students and non-registered staff
Skills & knowledge
- Awareness of professional accountability, HCPC and CSP standards, and local and national initiatives
- Awareness of equal opportunities legislation and policies
- Skills in a range of standardised and informal assessments
- Highly developed communication skills, including within multi-agency teams
- Ability to deliver appropriate therapeutic interventions
- Risk assessment and management skills
Other
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team
Nice to have
- Registered member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Knowledge of involving service users and carers in evaluation, planning and monitoring of services
- Clinical experience relevant to the role
- Knowledge of audit, research and evaluation
- Clinical leadership, and training and induction of staff
- Delegation skills
- Debriefing skills
- Teaching or presentation skills
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Contact Details:
The Methodist Church in Britain Recruitment Team
