Wheelchair Therapist- Occupational Therapist/ Physiotherapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 30 April 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 29 May 2024 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L3 4BL |
| Company: | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 6232612/350-CC6232612 |
Summary
Liverpool Wheelchair Service is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Band 5 Occupational Therapist or Physiotherapist to join our team.
The successful candidate will provide assessment and provision of wheelchairs and pressure management to clients within the Liverpool GP population.
You will be joining an experienced and established team who are friendly and supportive. The Band 5 role will provide you with an opportunity to expand your knowledge and experience of both children and adults. Many of our patients will present with complex multi- pathologies. You will undertake comprehensive assessments of service users with a variety of physical, cognitive and/ or learning disabilities. Identification of social and environmental issues that may impact on the final equipment recommendations is also key to providing a holistic posture/ pressure management solution with a wheelchair.
The service are specialists in postural assessment and you will have the opportunity to develop your skills and awareness in 24 hour postural management.
We are a multi disciplinary team of Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Clinical Engineers and Assistant Practitioners. We have a dedicated admin and warehouse team and purpose built facilities.
Our team provide and attend regular training to develop skills and knowledge both internal and external. We hold regular peer support and clinical focus sessions to support reflective practice and individual learning needs.
The post holder is responsible for the delivery of clinical care to a defined population.
Supported by senior practitioners, they will deliver care within the boundaries of their role.
They will work effectively and collaboratively within the team to meet the needs of the patients, support the delivery of policy and procedures and provide clinical leadership.
Ensure the delivery of the quality strategy within the designated area incorporating establishment of systems and processes.
Provide therapy input within the wheelchair service as part of the wider Community Equipment & Disability Advice Service.
The post holder will provide interventions for service users with a wide range of posture and mobility needs.
To provide interventions in a variety of locations, including the service users own home, nursing homes, schools and wheelchair clinics.
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.
Assess, plan, develop, implement and evaluate programmes to promote and prevent adverse effects on health and well-being
Implement and evaluate individual treatment plans for patients
Identify, and manage as appropriate treatment plans for patients at risk
Prioritise health problems and intervene appropriately to assist the patient in complex, urgent or emergency situations
Recognise and refer patients presenting with mental health needs
Promote and deliver evidenced based care
Assist senior practitioners as required
Utilise and demonstrate sensitive communication styles, to ensure patients are fully informed and consent to treatment
Communicate effectively with patients and carers, recognising the need for alternative methods of communication to overcome different levels of understanding, cultural backgrounds and preferred ways of communicating
Act as an advocate when representing patients and colleagues viewpoints to others
Recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by the relevant professional body
Produce accurate, contemporaneous and complete records of patient consultation, consistent with legislation, policies and procedures
Prioritise, organise and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes quality
Deliver care according to national and local guidelines, working in partnership with other clinical teams/departments
Assess effectiveness of care delivery through self and peer review, benchmarking and formal evaluation
Please refer to attached Job Description for a full list of duties and responsibilities.
This advert closes on Wednesday 5 Jun 2024