Physiotherapist

Here at North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare, we are on an incredible journey of innovation. We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist to join our Community Learning Disability Health Team.

The Trust provides patient centered Mental Health, Specialist Learning Disability and related services for people of all ages; aiming to be the best in all that we do and working in partnership to deliver services that promote recovery, wellbeing and independent living.

The post offers the opportunity to work in an exciting Mental Health Trust that has been rated OUTSTANDING by the Care Quality Commission. Our staff pride themselves on compassion, team work and resilience.

We have an ethos of multidisciplinary working and this is reflected within the Team with access to Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy and Psychology, Psychiatry and our Nursing colleagues, we have an admin team and are committed to supporting students and trainees.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop their leadership and management skills as well as building clinical expertise that will enhance and broaden their clinical skills within a Learning Disability Team.

North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust aims to provide accessible, non-stigmatising local services that contribute to the assessment, intervention, treatment, rehabilitation and enablement of people with learning disabilities, which promotes the prevention, early detection and treatment of health related issues for adults with learning disabilities in the community. The service is wholly committed to the use of Person Centred Planning approaches and affording adults with learning disabilities opportunities to maximize full citizenship, choice and control. The Physiotherapist has a lead role in promoting, enhancing and maintaining the health and wellbeing of adults with learning disabilities.

As a Trust we remain bold and ambitious with plans for both service and system collaborative transformation over the coming years to improve the health and wellbeing of our local people through high quality care.

We pride ourselves on ensuring our team has their wellbeing put first and as such provide a range of wellness opportunities including flexible working.

We are committed to the Greener NHS national ambition to becoming the world’s first ‘carbon net zero’ national health system by 2045 (Greener NHS (england.nhs.uk). As part of this, sustainability is embedded in our strategy as one of our four key enablers. In order to deliver on this commitment, we recognise that we need a workforce that is as passionate as we are about achieving these goals, for the benefit of our service users, workforce, local communities and the planet alike. For 2024/2025, we have launched our “Proud to be Green” engagement campaign which is aligned to the targets set out in our Green Plan. As a Trust, you can be assured that we will commit to supporting you in working towards our net zero ambitions, set out in our Green Plan, through our sustainability programme”.

The Trust is committed to ensuring that a diverse workforce is representative and inclusive at all levels. We would very much welcome applications from all under-represented groups including women, people with disabilities, people from global majority backgrounds, and those from the lesbian, gay, bi and trans communities.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Claire Lamb Job title: Deputy Team Lead Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 0300 123 1535