Specialist Musculoskeletal Practitioner Band 7 - Prescot, United Kingdom - Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust
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Prescot, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

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Merseycare Musculoskeletal Service is looking for a highly specialist musculoskeletal Band 7 Physiotherapist to join the team in Knowsley.


This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and competent musculoskeletal Physiotherapist to further develop your clinical and leadership skills in a successful multi-disciplinary team.

To undertake a senior clinical role within the musculoskeletal physiotherapy service.

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.

The post holder will demonstrate an attitude which respects and values service users' and their carers.


Mersey Care is one of the largest trusts providing physical health and mental health services in the North West, serving more than 11 million people.


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.


GENERAL
Delivering high level and complex triage, clinical assessment diagnostics, treatment and evaluation of the needs within Health and Wellbeing.


Providing leadership, promoting a learning culture for colleagues and other agencies, leading service innovations and demonstrating high level problem solving.


Ensuring excellence in service delivery through personal and service development, underpinned by evidence based practice and research, embedded in the quality assurance agenda.


Driving innovation, managing the change process to ensure your service continues to be flexible and proactive to reflect the needs of the wider Health and Wellbeing community.

To be responsible for the day to day management and development of team of staff.

MANAGERIAL/LEADERSHIP(including Financial/Physical Resources and Staffing)


To demonstrate leadership by means of:
Delivering change within sphere of practice, when and where indicated, to improve service delivery

Influencing, motivating, supporting and enabling others to contribute towards the effectiveness and success of the organisation


To provide high level advice and guidance in working with colleagues locally to ensure best practice across all disciplines in the assessment, treatment and long term management of patient/clients within sphere of practice.


To identify innovations and lead the implementation of new working practices in conjunction with patients/service users, health, wellbeing, local authority and third sector partners.


To take responsibility for their own high level and complex decision making and the decisions of their team which effect service delivery.

To train, supervise/case manage and performance manage staff and students. This will include for example the use of formal appraisal documentation, monitoring sickness absence etc.

To hold a delegated budget/be an authorised signatory for travel expenses and overtime.

To participate in the recruitment and selection process and induction of new staff.

To participate in the development of clinical rotas/timetables and organisation of clinical cover.


CLINICAL


To be responsible for the specialist assessment of complex care needs and the development, implementation and evaluation of programmes of care using a high degree of autonomy and act as a named practitioner.

To triage patients with highly complex needs.

To undertake highly complex clinical assessments of patients/service users within sphere of advanced practice.

To determine a clinical diagnosis and make high level decisions regarding appropriate treatment/ care plans.

Implement highly complex care/ interventions according to clinical need.

Evaluate highly complex care/interventions based on evidence from clinical outcomes and best practice.


To provide advanced clinical advice, support, training to patients/service users, families, carers and professional colleagues to improve their journey and their health and wellbeing.

To be professionally accountable for all aspects of own work including the management of patients in your care.

Registered practitioners who are non-medical prescribers are accountable for their prescribing activities by
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