ICRAS Urgent Therapy Team - Physiotherapist

We're looking for a Physiotherapist to join our multidisciplinary teams across Liverpool and South Sefton. If you're motivated, with a therapy background, a passion to promote allied health professionals, and share our aim for perfect care, we'd like to hear from you. We have vacancies within both areas - based from Litherland Town Hall and Goodlass Road.
The role can involve internal rotations within ICRAS across hubs, community and Hospital Avoidance Response of Liverpool (HARL), which will enable you to develop skills and flourish within your career. If this interests you, come and join our fantastic team.
We're a very supportive team with a senior nurse, pharmacist, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, podiatrist, therapy and health practitioner assistants and advanced clinical practitioners.
Our neighbourhood approach is across Liverpool and South Sefton, we work with intermediate care hubs, admission avoidance, supporting early discharges, HARL - working alongside a paramedic responding to falls within the community, reablement pathways and much more.

Main duties of the job
You will be responsible for responding to referrals along with other health professionals, completing a holistic assessment of need and associated risk assessments and completing initial follow up visits, as well as referring patients on to other services / elements of the ICRAS service. You will also participate in the supervision of junior and support staff and at times assist senior staff and the service with a range of other tasks to maintain and improve a quality and evidence-based service.
The successful candidate will be flexible and willing to rotate across other aspects of the ICRAS service (community rehabilitation and bed-based) if and when this is required. The successful candidate must be willing to assist the service meet the needs of it's patients and the wider health economy by participating in weekend work and late shifts., + Autonomous practitioner undertaking comprehensive assessment and delivery of treatment plans to meet patient needs.
+ Work as part of an MDT
+ High standard of report writing/documentation
+ Demonstrate effective leadership, supporting colleagues and junior team members
+ Active role in service developments
+ Lead/support audits
+ Active role in supervision and appraisal
+ Participate and lead on training within therapy
+ A strong understanding of discharge planning
+ Understanding of Trust Policy and Processes
+ Participate in MDT discussions
We'll encourage your development whether through training, job shadowing, internal promotion etc.
What we offer
+ A robust support structure with regular clinical supervision and performance development review
+ A comprehensive monthly in-service training programme
+ Opportunities to lead service delivery including audits, in-service training, etc.
+ Monthly peer group support
+ An innovative NHS Trust that's committed to investing in its future and its staff
+ Opportunities to supervise junior staff, develop peers, students and therapy assistants
+ Be part of the development of services at the centre of the future direction of healthcare
+ Structured career progression, support and opportunities
+ Opportunities to shadow the therapy coordination role and develop skills in triage, allocation of patients etc.
+ Flexible working patterns and our commitment to a good work life balance.
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We celebrate diversity and promote equal opportunities; we are committed to challenging and eliminating racism and other forms of discrimination and advancing and promoting equality of opportunity in the provision of services and creating an inclusive environment for all employees. We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect.
We take positive action to support disadvantaged groups and also particularly encourage applications from ethnic minorities, disabled and LGBTQIA+ people that are under-represented in our workforce. Furthermore we welcome applications from reservists and ex-armed forces personnel as we recognise the benefits of the values, skills, training and experience that they bring to their work with us. We encourage all applicants to share their equality information with us.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
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ICRAS (Integrated Reablement and Assessment Service) is a unique service providing a rapid responsive approach to support admission avoidance and early hospital discharges., 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.