Physiotherapist – Mental Health

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Location: Colchester

Contract Type: Locum ongoing conntract

Pay Rate: £25 per hour (assignment rate)

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Main Duties:

• Using specialist knowledge of mental health physical functioning, you will undertake the comprehensive physiotherapy assessment of service users in the area / team that you are working in.
• Assessing and treating your own specialist caseload of service users in accordance with Trust clinical pathways, you will provide effective, tailored, evidence based physiotherapy interventions to service users. In doing so, use goal setting and interventions focused on functional activity, mobility, independence, health and wellbeing and the prevention of falls. You will be expected to identify and use relevant physiotherapy standardised assessments and agreed outcome measures.
• Working as part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to care plans that includes the delivery of specialist physiotherapy interventions, you will also provide specialist physiotherapy advice to other disciplines and lead on falls prevention.
• You will also be involved in providing training, supervision and support to others as required. You may lead clinical audit and undertake research.
• You may also have responsibility for the day-to-day supervision and management of lower banded staff within your professional group and team locality, as required by your manager, in line with agreed Trust HR processes.
• You will be expected to work collaboratively with key partner organisations, service users, carers, clinicians and other practitioners within the multi-disciplinary team in delivering services; providing a 7-day a week, 24-hours a day service for 365 days a year working shifts where appropriate and operationally required.
• In delivering your duties you are expected to display behaviours that are aligned with the Trust values and in accordance with the NHS Constitution at all times.

Requirements of the Physiotherapist:

• Qualified physiotherapist, i.e., Degree or equivalent within Physiotherapy.
• Recent UK experience within mental health physiotherapy.
• Registered with the HCPC as a physiotherapist to work in the UK.
• NHS experience would be advantageous but not essential.

We welcome applications from physiotherapists and physio assistants (Band 3, Band 4, Band 5, Band 6, Band 7, and above!) within different physio services as we have other roles available within the NHS and private sectors.

Contact: This physiotherapy job is advertised by Alex Blackwell. If you are interested in this position, please click above to apply now.

Please note that while we regretfully can only respond to candidates who meet the specified requirements for this physio role as we need to meet our clients’ requirements, please feel free to browse our open roles that may be more suitable for you.

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