Physiotherapist Band 7 - Emergency Floor

We are looking for a physio to provide expert assessment and management of a range of patients within the urgent care setting including musculoskeletal injuries, falls, frailty, neurology and respiratory care. The successful candidate will demonstrate confidence in managing a varied workload in a challenging, fast paced environment. You will work with the other Band 7 therapy staff to jointly lead the therapy service covering Emergency Department and AMU, and will have strong links to the wider MDT, statutory and voluntary agencies external to the Trust, providing a quality service that meets the needs of patients and their families. You will clinically coordinate a busy team including leading daily handover meetings and attendance at MDT boardrounds to review and support inpatient flow. The team has well established links to the reablement therapists based on the Broadgreen Hospital site. You will develop and utilise nonclinical leadership/management skills; roster management, recruitment, annual leave planning, weekend and rota management, sickness management, Datix handling and complaints management. The EFTT service is provided as an 8-8 service 7 days per week.,

• To be responsible for providing specialist assessment and treatment of patients ensuring appropriate pathways of care and communications via liaison with the wider MDT and referral to other agencies as required.
• To manage and provide effective leadership of therapy staff within the Emergency Floor environment, including Rostering over a 7day service, supervision and training of junior staff.
• To manage and develop physiotherapy input to provide optimal patient care ensuring high standards of clinical practice, including service development/monitoring, audits and projects; liaising with medical and nursing staff within the ED areas.
• To respond and action any requests from the Emergency Floor service and the wider Trust or therapy service focussing on e.g. patient care, patient flow, national/trust policies.
• To support the weekly safety and governance meetings and to escalate concerns or report incidents as per Trust policy.
• We are committed to staff development and training through regular supervision, appraisal and personalised development plans. You will be responsible for the supervision of Band 5 and 6 physios, students and therapy assistants under the guidance of Therapy Managers and Clinical Specialists., To undertake physiotherapy assessment, clinically diagnose and implement agreed plans as appropriate including the routine treatment of complex patients in the manner that respects peoples' privacy, dignity and individuality.
To act as advisor to Therapy staff regarding complex clinical issues and complex patient management, problem solving, making decisions, authorising appropriate action. To ensure effective two way communication with patients and other Health Professionals regarding all aspects of patient care. To provide and receive complex information that requires empathy and reassurance, communicating where there may be barriers to understand. To ensure a high standard of patient care is provided, implementing and reviewing clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken/clinical speciality Managerial & Leadership To liaise with the Therapy Manager providing specialist advice on the planning and development of the service. To represent Therapy Services on any service development working parties / meetings as appropriate To support the leading of regular staff meetings and facilitate good communication between the department and Trust both on Trust and National issues ensuring effective dissemination of information. To provide expert advice to colleagues To monitor activity and support production/analysis of data for clinical speciality Where necessary, to take appropriate action to ensure activity and waiting list targets are achieved within the service. To assess the Therapy equipment required for the department. To actively participate in the professional development programme of the physiotherapy /therapy department., The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working. The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24. Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £23 (standard disclosure) or £43 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment. DBS applications submitted from 2nd December will be subject to the new DBS fee of £26.50 (standard) and £54.50 (Enhanced). From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years. Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa. This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people and vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures. Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation. All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action. As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.


• B.Sc in Physiotherapy
• Grad.Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Current registration with HCPC
• Post Graduate courses in Management at various levels/equivalent
Desirable criteria
• Post-Graduate courses in a variety of specialities/clinical education., Experience working in working in various specialities and in management roles, Experience in conducting audit
• Experience in conducting or supporting Research projects, Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Forward thinking with knowledge of current NHS/speciality issues
• Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
• Excellent managerial skills
• Ability to manage and work as part of MDT
• Able to handle difficult, sensitive and emotional situations
• Ability to think quickly, assess clinical situations and take decisions upon that information, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust was created on 1 October 2019 following the merger of two adult acute Trusts, Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
The merger provides an opportunity to reconfigure services in a way that provides the best healthcare services to the city and improves the quality of care and health outcomes that patients experience. The Trust runs Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital, Liverpool University Dental Hospital and the Royal Liverpool University Hospital. It serves a core population of around 630,000 people across Merseyside as well as providing a range of highly specialist services to a catchment area of more than two million people in the North West region and beyond.