Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic and innovative Physiotherapist to join the therapy team at Longmoor House. The service is based on a nursing and therapy led reablement model, utilising a holistic and person centred approach in order to support individuals requiring our services. Our multidisciplinary working with combined expertise, revised pathways and community connections will facilitate a more timely discharge in conjunction with our service users.

The service will run over 7 days per week on a rota basis.

The successful candidate will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to provide an excellent and effective reablement service. You will be expected to be able to work autonomously and take responsibility for a caseload ensuring that evidence based, individualised and effective treatment is administered with the outcome of a timely and safe discharge. Excellent time management, clinical reasoning and risk assessment skills are essential for this role. You will be supported by the senior members of staff and team lead with regular supervision and in service training.

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.

Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Natalie McCulloch Job title: Band 7 Physiotherapist Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07795467873