Specialist Pelvic Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 08 July 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 21 July 2025 |
| Location: | Liverpool, L8 7SS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9159-25-0132 |
Summary
Work as an autonomous practitioner, professionally and legally accountable to the management of patients in your care, ensuring a high standard of clinical care. Highly skilled in verbal and non-verbal communication skills with all groups of patients. Coordinate and ensure effective delivery of obstetric and gynaecological inpatient service, across the Trust within resources, adapting to change and prioritising accordingly. To be able to demonstrate sound clinical reasoning within the assessment and treatment of patient's suffering a wide range of complex pelvic floor dysfunction /pelvic symptoms. Implement goal setting and constant re-evaluation of intervention to achieve optimum outcomes for the patient including comprehensive discharge planning. Formulate individualised specific management and treatment plans employing advanced analytical skills. Utilising advanced treatment skills and options including neuromuscular electrical stimulation, biofeedback. To be responsive and adaptable to perpetual changes in patient's clinical states. To elicit active patient participation and cooperation with treatment often against a background of cognitive/behavioural/perceptual components. To assess mental capacity of the patient, including ability to give informed consent and this be documented whilst working within the legal framework. Ensure coordinated treatment approach, making accurate and timely risk assessments to minimise risks and maximise patient's progress. Provide highly specialist advice to members of the MDT. Work closely with other specialist services e.g urogynae nurse specialists. Effectively communicate with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and ensure understanding of often complex aspects of their condition. identify and justify when a patient does not require physiotherapy intervention, but needs other MDT input. Empower patients to self manage long term conditions through advice, education, coping strategies and therapeutic procedures. Supervision of student including use of formal appraisal. provide specialist advice/mentoring to physiotherapy colleagues on the management of complex cases. Managerial and Leadership:- Take responsibility for certain service operational issues. Be involved in planning/organisation of clinical and service based activity. Actively participate in appropriate unit working groups within the Trust. For further details see Job description attached. Professional and educational:- Maintain own CPD to ensure practice up to date and evidence based. Actively attend internal/external courses. Share new skills/knowledge with physio colleagues in training session. For further details see job description attached.