Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
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| Salary: | £38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £38682.00 - £46580.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 08 October 2025 |
| Location: | Prescot, L34 1PJ |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | C9350-25-1149 |
Summary
To plan and implement patient centred individual interventions,using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals.To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progressand ensure effectiveness of intervention.To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and providetraining 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 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. liaising withfamily members, carers, GPs and other professionals when completing the assessment and developing a careplan.To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concernsregarding 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. Understandingrisk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery ofPhysiotherapy activities and comply with The Chartered Society ofPhysiotherapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public healthpolicy.To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service usersby 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, gainedfrom 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 whobecome anxious, hostile or distressed.To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidentsand 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 their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act