Physiotherapist Liverpool 2023

Band 5 Physiotherapists required. Six month rotational posts. Busy city centre Trust.

Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust Therapies department are pleased to offer a number of rotational physiotherapy med surg/MSK posts across all sites including Aintree, Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen hospitals.

This post is open to current final year students hoping to start at the end of summer. We will interview on May 9th and 10th.

Main Duties of the Job

Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust (LUHFT) Therapies department are pleased to offer a number of Band 5 rotational physiotherapy positions within our organisation. We have a large variety of rotations across all cores areas including:

• Respiratory Care including Critical Care
• Major Trauma
• First Response Team (AED)
• Older Peoples' Services
• Stroke Services
• Acute Medicine
• Rheumatology
• Orthopaedic inpatients
• MSK outpatients including Fracture Clinic

Successful applicants will work within the Therapies Directorate. We are a busy city wide Trust offering services to adults. Our teams are led by highly skilled senior clinicians and our Management team. We are committed to the supervision and development of staff and services.

We offer services in a variety of locations: within our hospitals; within the community supporting patients in their homes; within the community in satellite clinics. Staff may be required to travel within the city. Staff are required to be flexible.

We have a strong commitment to staff development with a structured supervision and appraisal process. You will have a named supervisor and will have opportunities to attend study days and courses as appropriate. Staff who are new to the NHS will be offered a preceptorship programme and will have a named preceptor.

Depending on your rotation you may be required to support seven day services and extended working days. Certain teams cover early and late shifts and participate in on-call services.

Working for our Organisation

Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience.

The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital.

It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.

Main Responsibilities

• To undertake physiotherapy assessment, clinically diagnose and implement agreed treatment plans, evaluate care delivery according to health care needs for routine and complex patients, seeking advice from seniors as required. To work within CSP and HCPC guidelines.
• To ensure effective communication with patients, carers and all other Health & Social Care Professionals regarding all aspects of patient care.
• This will include patients who may have difficulties in understanding or communicating.
• To participate in Departmental Planned ‘Out of Hours Working’ and Emergency On-Call Rota when sufficiently competent.
• To represent Physiotherapy Service at Multidisciplinary Meetings to ensure the delivery of a co-ordinated Multidisciplinary Service.
• To be responsible for organising and planning own caseload to meet service and patient priorities.

If you have any questions regarding this position please contact one of our Therapy Managers. You will be sent more information about the interview process if you are shortlisted. Posts of this nature tend to attract a high number of applicants and this advert may need to be closed early.

Fixed term and bank opportunities may be available. Please state if you have a preference for these at interview.

Qualifications

Essential Criteria

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Health Professions Council Registration

Experience

Essential Criteria

• Experience in a wide range of specialities including acute medicine, respiratory, musculoskeletal and rehabilitation.

Desirable Criteria

• UK NHS experience (undergraduate or postgraduate)
• Some experience as a basic grade
• Member of a special interest group

Knowledge

Essential Criteria

• Ability to manage own caseload

Skills

Essential Criteria

• Good clinical, planning and evaluation skills
• Time management skills
• Effective communication skills

Desirable Criteria

• I.T. skills

Other

Essential Criteria

• Able to work as a team member
• Reliability
• Willingness to work flexibly

Additional Information

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application. Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months’ of their 18 th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Please Note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first paypoint of the relevant band.

Applicant Requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

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.