Specialist ME / CFS (Occupational Therapist / Physiotherapist / Nurse)

The service supports patients who are referred following a confirmed ME/CFS diagnosis for therapy and from the Cheshire and Merseyside Community Long COVID Services who remain unwell with fatigue and related symptoms. The service offers a tailored self-management programme to assist patients with specialist advice. Therapists deliver group workshops and individual therapy sessions by virtual or face to face methods. Therapy is inline with the guidance of the ME/CFS NICE Guidelines and the Post COVID NICE guidelines. The team delivering the care includes Consultant Physicians, Service Manager, Specialist Occupational Therapists, Clinical Psychology, and our administration team., Delivery of a tailored therapy programme supporting the management of ME/CFS and fatigue following a post viral illness. Specialists will be providing specific therapy advice encouraging patients to use strategies and tools to help positively manage their present condition. Specialists will manage their own caseload with the support and supervision of Senior Therapists and Clinical Psychologists on site.

Ideally you will have experience of working with people with long term health conditions. This could be both the Physical and Mental Health arenas.,

• Graduate qualification
• HCPC / NMC registration
• Evidence of CPD, Demonstrable Post-registration experience in a junior rotational post providing broad experience in therapy and in chronic disease management or mental health
• Experience of working as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Evidence of a contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants.
Desirable criteria
• Experience in care of patients with CFS
• Evidence of participation in research / audit, Broad knowledge of current best practice in Occupational Therapy.
• Broad knowledge of CFS
• Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession., Effective written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to manage own workload, determine priorities and delegate tasks.
• Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies on health and safety, risk manage and data protection.
• Ability to reflect and critically appraise own performance.
• Ability to keep accurate legible patient notes
Desirable criteria
• Neurology skills
• Orthotic skills
• Wheelchair assessment skills
• Presentation skills
• Competent IT skills
  
  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.

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 £18+£5 (standard disclosure) or £38+£5 (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. 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. If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post. Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band. For agenda for change banded roles; salary payments will reflect the 2023/24 pay scales. The 2024/25 pay scales will be paid in October 2024 including any backpay due. Therefore should the successful applicant start in post prior to October, the salary will initially reflect the 2023/24 pay scales.