Job summary
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist --Mental Healht
Band 7
Thank you for your interest for the North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT), it is an exciting time to join us and being part of our journey to improve mental health care across North London and deliver excellent services to our local people. We will achieve this through the North London Way, as we:
- Collaborate at every level by living our Values to create the right conditions for us all to work together.
- Develop our new Trust culture, to help make our new Trust a great place to work and to receive great care.
- Empower our teams to lead the planned improvements in our services, by skilling them and giving them the tools to make the changes.
- Focus on delivering excellence at every level to improve our performance and ensure consistently high-quality care across all our services.
- Ensure that research, Quality Improvement, and technology lead the way and are embedded in our services.
- Take a trauma informed approach to everything we do
We proactively welcome diversity in our workforce and pride ourselves on being an inclusive employer. We aim to recruit from our local communities and provide opportunities to all including apprenticeships, veterans, care leavers and more.
The North London Way to deliver, Better Mental Health, Better Lives, Better Communities.
Our trust website is: https://www.northlondonmentalhealth.nhs.uk/
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to join a newly established Physical Health Therapies service within the acute mental health and transitional care wards of Barnet, Enfield, and Haringey divisions. This role could be ideal for an experienced Band 6 looking for promotion or an established Band 7.
This innovative role involves working collaboratively with the physical health and multidisciplinary teams to build an effective, evidence-based service that integrates physical health interventions into mental health pathways.
The Physical Health Therapies service delivers Physiotherapy and Speech and Language Therapy, alongside Dietetics and Podiatry through Service Level Agreements. The team works in partnership with colleagues across the North London NHS Foundation Trust to provide holistic care for adult service users. This is an excellent opportunity to shape a service, raise awareness of physical health needs in acute mental health settings, and champion physiotherapy’s contribution to multidisciplinary care.
We welcome an experienced physiotherapist with a broad clinical background, particularly in musculoskeletal, orthopaedics and general rehabilitation, to bring valuable expertise to this role.
** It is highly recommended that candidates reach out to the service lead for an informal conversation before the closing date.**
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a key member of the newly established Physical Health Therapies service, providing specialist physiotherapy expertise to adult mental health service users.
This role includes clinical leadership and professional management of the physiotherapy staff within the Physical Health AHP Team, ensuring the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality care while maintaining the highest standards of professional conduct. They will assume responsibility for service operations in the manager’s absence, providing strategic and clinical oversight.
The post holder will work alongside senior clinicians in the team to deliver a case management approach to integrate, coordinate and proactively assess service users' health and social care needs. They will develop care plans to ensure safe, timely and effective discharge, optimise service users’ outcomes and provide service users and professionals with necessary skills and knowledge.
In addition to managing their own caseload, the post holder will oversee appraisal systems, clinical supervision, and staff training programme. They will also lead on clinical audits, quality improvement initiatives, and service developments to ensure the evolving needs of service users are met effectively.
This role presents an exciting opportunity to contribute to a pioneering service, champion physiotherapy in mental health care, and raise awareness of the physical health needs of individuals in acute mental health settings.
Working for our organisation
North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
Our Five-Year Strategy:
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We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
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With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
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We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
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We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For a comprehensive details of the key responsibilities, required skills, and essential experience associated with this exciting opportunity, we encourage you to carefully review the accompanying 'Job Description & Person Specification' document.
Person specification
Qualifications/ Registrations
Essential criteria
- Degree-level professional qualification in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- High level post-graduate courses in related area of expertise
Desirable criteria
- Trust training in Appraisal and Recruitment
Skills/ Abilities
Essential criteria
- Highly specialist level of clinical skills - able to implement appropriate assessment, diagnosis and treatment for complex physical health presentations. (Clinical skills))
- Demonstrate an ability to manage and prioritise own / team’s workload equitably across a designated area and across physiotherapy services as required, responding to unpredictable changes to patients and staffing levels (priorisation/delegation/managing changes))
- Ability to work efficiently, effectively and professionally as part of a multi-disciplinary team, understanding the role and nature of team working (MDT))
- Effective communication skills, able to engage a wide range of stakeholders to optimise care and service management, including use of negotiation skills and communicating complex, sensitive and contentious information in an understandable form (Communication))
- Demonstrable clinical leadership skills, able to develop, lead, manage and support staff (Leadership))
- Able to design and implement teaching programmes within own field, suitable for different staff groups (Education/teaching))
- Able to critically appraise own performance and accept and respond positively to feedback from supervision (personal development))
Experience/ Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Broad range of clinic experience at junior level including musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, and general rehabilitation
- Substantial experience in clinical staff supervision and training
- Demonstrate a working knowledge and experience of clinical governance with examples of participation in projects for the improvement of patient care and service developments, including leading on projects as required.
- Commitment to and evidence of own continuous professional development and evidence-based practice, including reflective practice, in-service training, any courses attended and clinical experienced gained
- Good understanding of national strategy, guidance and key standards in own specialist area and their application in practice
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of working with service users who have mental health presentations
- Participation in clinical research activities
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Able to work flexibly and co-operatively as part of a team
- Committed to promoting a positive image of the Physiotherapy Service in the mental health settings
Other Requirements
Essential criteria
- The physical capabilities to manage patients with acute and long-term disabilities both on the wards and in the therapy treatment areas
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Shu Xiaoyi
- Job title
- AHP Physical Health Service Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07877732144
- Additional information
Alternative contact:
Ripal Patel (AHP workforce lead): [email protected]
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