Job summary
Our Knowsley community therapy team is seeking a committed Band 6 Physiotherapists or Occupational therapists to join our service, supporting the patients through shared care within their localities. We are seeking a highly skilled, enthusiastic, and proactive therapist to join our team. The service responds to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities or support with discharge from the hospital setting. The Urgent Community Response service (UCR) and Rapid Discharge service operates 7 days a week including bank holidays. All staff are expected to participate in the UCR / Virtual Wards and Rapid Discharge service working alongside Advanced Clinicians to cover weekends on a rota.
We thrive to communicate and collaborate between Integrated care systems to address the health and social care needs across the area, maximising patient independence and preventing hospital admissions. This is a fantastic opportunity to join our multi-disciplinary team. The team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Assistant Practitioners, Therapy Assistants, Community Matrons, Medicine Management, Nursing staff and social workers.
The Community therapy Team also provides Physiotherapy intervention to other teams within our portfolio. The Falls team, Later life and Memory services and the Adult mental health wards, in-reaching as part of the Physical health in-reach service.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be expected to effectively manage a caseload of patient's comorbidities as an autonomous practitioner, using evidence based/ patient centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions of the patient group. The post holder will provide leadership for junior staff, when appropriate, through supervision and appraisal. The post holder will participate in planning, development and evaluation ofphysiotherapy / Occupational therapy services within a designated area/team, holding responsibility for defined projects.
The post holders take a holistic approach in the assessment and treatment of service users / patients, being responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced based practice.
Work in partnership with other professional to enable service users / patients to be maintained in an appropriate environment, thus avoiding hospital admission.
To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy profession within Urgent and Intermediate Care and will facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
About us
Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Job description
Job responsibilities
To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.
To prioritise designated Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy referrals according to need, risk and service capacity
To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within virtual ward/rehab hub setting.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patients social and physical environment.
To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.
To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.
To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.
To liaise with family members, carers, GPs and other professionals asnecessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly, referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.
To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor and work with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.
To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of the sector you have responsibility for.
Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy activities and comply with The Professional bodies associated with each profession, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by supervision of sector members caseloads and via audit.
To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious, hostile or distressed.
To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents and liaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidents are implemented.
To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to remain in the community in their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.
To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act.
Job description
Job responsibilities
To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge.
To gain consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy journey, enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.
To prioritise designated Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy referrals according to need, risk and service capacity
To plan and implement patient centred individual and/or group interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals including sensory integration difficulties within virtual ward/rehab hub setting.
To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.
To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patients social and physical environment.
To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.
To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.
To ensure that the service users care plan is developed to meet the assessed need of the individual. To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard.
To liaise with family members, carers, GPs and other professionals asnecessary when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.
To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly, referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.
To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately. To monitor and work with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.
To lead the systematic monitoring and evaluation of service users under the care of the sector you have responsibility for.
Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy activities and comply with The Professional bodies associated with each profession, Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by supervision of sector members caseloads and via audit.
To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.
To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious, hostile or distressed.
To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents and liaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidents are implemented.
To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions.
To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to remain in the community in their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.
To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act.
Person Specification
essential
Essential
- Registered Occupational therapist or Physiotherapist
- Demonstrate experience of Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy assessment including complex rehabilitation and decision making
- Formulation of intervention/treatment plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
Desirable
- oApplication of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
Person Specification
essential
Essential
- Registered Occupational therapist or Physiotherapist
- Demonstrate experience of Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy assessment including complex rehabilitation and decision making
- Formulation of intervention/treatment plans grounded in clinical reasoning
- General knowledge of the principles of clinical governance.
Desirable
- oApplication of the process of standard setting, audit, evaluation and review
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
