Physiotherapist | Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust

The post currently available is for fixed term (15mths) covering Knowsley Community therapy team providing support cover for maternity leave. We are seeking an enthusiastic Band 6 Physiotherapist (Physio) to join our service, supporting the patients through shared care within their localities.

The team consists of Physiotherapists, Occupational therapist, Assistant Practitioners and Therapy Assistants. The service responds to the rehabilitation needs of adults 18+, who have multiple complex co-morbidities or support with discharge from the hospital setting. We are looking for an individual who can demonstrate experience within the Physio role, who has the ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team. You will require sound decision making skills and effective clinical reasoning to provide input to those with long term conditions, palliative patients, musculoskeletal problems (unable to access a clinic), orthopaedic and other neurological disorders.

To undertake comprehensive holistic assessments, devise treatment plans individualised to patient needs, reviewing and adapting during patient journey from initial assessment through to discharge. Gaining consent through engaging patients / clients through their therapy utilising shared decision making enabling them to experience choice and as part of their recovery.

Prioritising during triage the designated Physiotherapy / Occupational therapy / assistant practitioners referrals according to need, risk and service capacity. Maintaining timely interventions and completion of supporting documentation / onward referrals, while supporting the team and student education. Be responsible for the provision of appropriate, high quality care to a defined caseload which may be of a complex nature, using the appropriate model of care and evidenced based practice.

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.

To plan and implement patient centred individual interventions, using graded activity to achieve therapeutic goals. To monitor, evaluate and modify treatment in order to measure progress and ensure effectiveness of intervention.

To apply a high level of understanding of the effect of disability and provide training and advice on lifestyle changes and adaptations to the patient’s social and physical environment. To provide clinical advice, expertise and leadership within your team.

To monitor and offer professional advice and leadership to all team members with regards to their caseloads and working practices.

To monitor, via performance management, the care plans developed for service users by all sector members to ensure that they are appropriate and of a high standard. liaising with family members, carers, GP’s and other professionals when completing the assessment and developing a care plan.

To be a point of contact for service users and carers that have concerns regarding their care, making every effort to resolve their concerns sensitively and promptly, referring to and informing the Team Manager as necessary.

To develop a risk management plan for service users under your care, taking note of the contributions from other members of the team. Ensure that all significant people are aware of the risk management plan and are actioning it appropriately.

To monitor and work with all team members to ensure that service user risk is managed appropriately and that risk management plans are of a high quality. Understanding risk assessment, being able to assess risk and complete management plans.

Monitor and ensure high standards relating to the planning and delivery of Physiotherapy activities and comply with The Chartered Society of Physiotherapists Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, contributing to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.

To monitor the provision of a range of therapeutic activities for service users by supervision of sector members’ caseloads and via audit. To use skills gained through training and experience to de-escalate situations where service users become physically or verbally aggressive. Use your judgement, gained from experience, to establish if a service user requires assessment by a medic or possibly hospital admission.

To use skills gained through experience to deal with service users who become anxious, hostile or distressed. To ensure all sector members get appropriate support following violent incidents and liaise with the Team Manager to ensure any identified actions arising from such incidents are implemented.

To participate in and/or lead service user reviews ensuring that service user needs are met and that the team has all the relevant information on which to base their clinical decisions. To develop care plans that enable service users to reach and maintain their optimum level of health and independence to help them to remain in their chosen setting or return to this on discharge.

To demonstrate an understanding of capacity and mental capacity Act

This advert closes on Wednesday 8 Oct 2025