Advanced Physiotherapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, person-centred Specialist Physiotherapist with excellent leadership and interpersonal skills. You will lead a high-quality physiotherapy service for adults with mental health difficulties at the Redwoods Hospital in Shrewsbury.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead a specialist physiotherapy service for adults with complex mental health issues and comorbidities.
• Demonstrate advanced and expert clinical reasoning skills in the assessment and management of a diverse and complex/specialist caseload (with mobility, postural and respiratory needs) alongside the development, implementation and evaluation of care/support packages.
• Provide holistic, evidence-based care that includes shared decision making and a patient centred approach
• Offer leadership, teaching, and supervision activities to physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary teams across all wards, including acute and dementia care.
• Manage a small, diverse caseload of patients with mobility, postural, and respiratory needs.
• Operate autonomously within a multi-disciplinary team.
• Demonstrate evaluative skills (through audit and research) to evidence the effectiveness of physiotherapeutic interventions within the service to cover the research pillar of practice

Main duties of the job

Main Duties:

• Professional Accountability: Manage own caseload and direct clinical care, adhering to professional codes of conduct.
• Specialist Assessments: Conduct comprehensive physiotherapy assessments for clients with complex needs, using clinical reasoning to diagnose and develop treatment plans.
• Specialist Advice: Provide advice to other professionals and conduct single assessments to meet clients' holistic care needs.
• Treatment Plans: Develop and deliver individual treatment plans based on specialist knowledge, shared decision making and evidence-based practices.
• Knowledge Maintenance: Demonstrate ongoing knowledge maintenance and competency across the pillars of advanced practice

About us

Join Team MPFT - Make a Difference in Your Community

By becoming part of Team MPFT, you'll be making a real impact in your community. In return, we're committed to supporting you with a wide range of benefits, including:

• Career development and progression opportunities
• Excellent NHS Pension Scheme
• Generous leave entitlements- including maternity, paternity, and adoption leave
• Flexible working options
• Up to 27 days annual leave(rising to 33 days with service), plus the option to purchase additional leave
• Comprehensive health and wellbeing support
• Paid travel timebetween patients for community team members
• Lease car schemefor those completing over 500 business miles annually - fully insured and maintained, with mileage paid at lease car rates
• Salary sacrifice car scheme- fully insured and maintained, with tax-efficient payments and mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bike scheme- up to £2,000
• Free parkingat all Trust sites
• Annual flu vaccinations
• Access to Citizens Advice supportand aHardship Fundoffering one-off support of up to £250 (subject to eligibility)

And much more. We're proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation, with a variety of staff networks to help you connect with like-minded colleagues.