Highly Specialist Physiotherapist Mental Healht | 306 North London NHS Foundation Trust
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.**
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.
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:
- We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
- With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all
- We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care.
- We will be more effective as an organisation by pioneering research, quality improvement and technology.
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.
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.
This advert closes on Tuesday 4 Feb 2025