Bank Band 6 - Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist Job Hull area,Kingston upon Hull England UK,Healthcare

Job summary

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust Musculoskeletal Service is looking for a Bank Band 6 Specialist Musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to join the team.

The MSK service has a well-structured programme of mentoring, supervision and CPD; the department is research-active and has close links with Higher Education Institutes. Active involvement in training and development, including supervision of students and delivery of staff training, is a key requirement.

Main duties of the job

To provide high quality Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy services to patients

To perform advanced physiotherapy assessment of patients with diverse presentation and complex physical and psychological conditions. To provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme

To hold responsibility for own caseload and be responsible for defined area of service or patient type without direct supervision.

About us

Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 1.4 million people across our region and are also commissioned for services that cover the North West, North Wales and the Midlands.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

Job responsibilities

Clinical:

To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.
Undertake video and telephone assessments as well as face to face sessions.
Formulate and deliver an individual therapy treatment programme using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options. Formulate accurate diagnosis prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive discharge plans.
To take delegated responsibility from the Band 7 therapist for managing patients with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist therapy assessment and treatment plans for patients with these conditions.
Evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes as required.
Work as a lone practitioner with telephone support from a senior therapist if required.
To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination, palpatory and other senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients
To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of their condition
To assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with patients who lack capacity to consent to treatment
To communicate effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, therapy staff and other health and social care and education professionals to ensure delivery of a coordinated multidisciplinary service. This will include discharged planning and other forms of verbal/written communication as necessary including report writing, referrals to other agencies
To communicate highly sensitive information effectively with all patient groups/carers were there maybe difficulties in accepting or understanding information
To maintain tact and diplomacy and use highly developed communication skill when working in situations which may become hostile/antagonistic
To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up to date documentation in line with legal and departmental requirements, and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in the form of reports and letters
To undertake as directed the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the…