Mental Health Physiotherapy is a fast-growing and exciting specialism within Physiotherapy. This is a unique opportunity to join the first team of Physiotherapists to work across the Trusts adult mental health wards. As an inaugural member of this team you will be pivotal in the creation, design and delivery of this exciting new service.

This is a Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 6) role and would ideally suit an experienced practitioner with the desire to help deliver a high-quality service to people with mental health conditions.

You will be supported by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (Band 7). The team will be led by a Professional Lead Physiotherapist (Band 8a) in Mental Health.

You will not be expected to supervise any Physiotherapists initially but the plan is to grow the service to include Band 5 Physiotherapists and at which point you would be responsible for supervision. There will be opportunities to support student Physiotherapists when the service has been established.

The vacancy will be closed early if we receive a high number of applicants.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be based in East Sussex and provide input onto wards in Hastings. You will manage a caseload of adult patients with mental health conditions. You will provide input for adult, older adult and dementia wards. Experience in mental health is advantageous but not essential.

A broad range of skills in some of the following areas is required: older people, dementia, rehabilitation, neurology, musculoskeletal, orthopaedic and respiratory physiotherapy.Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD will be provided to develop skills gaps.

About us

By joining our team, you will benefit from:

• Strong supportive teams with dedicated supportive leaders
• Excellent CPD opportunities
• A service that works to develop clear evidence-based care pathways

Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Hampshire.

We encourage flexible working. We know that a positive work/ life balance brings about huge health-related benefits, which has a positive impact on the care we provide. Please speak to us about flexible working, for example, part time hours, flexible start/ finish times or anything else. If it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.

We'd love you to join our Trust, rated 'good' overall and 'outstanding' for caring by the CQC. Our staff agree, in our recent staff survey 82% told us that they recognise that care for patients is our top priority.

Other key survey results:

• 70% highlighting flexible working as a key point for satisfaction at work
• 79% reporting feeling able to make suggestions to improve the work in their team
• 77% identifying opportunities to show initiative in their roles

Job description

Job responsibilities

You will have the skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including, mobility and falls, dementia care, posture care, respiratory care, MSK pain/chronic pain and other physical health conditions such as neurological conditions and orthopaedic conditions. As well as direct interventions and group classes, physiotherapy will be delivered by increasing the skills and competencies of other staff on wards.

You will have support from and work collaboratively within the physiotherapy professional group which spans the whole of Sussex and includes a large team of learning disability physiotherapists and MSK chronic pain physiotherapists.

You will be collaborating across services to deliver results. We work closely with colleagues in Social care, Primary Care and other specialist secondary services.

This is a great opportunity to use the skills you have developed across a broad range of care pathways.

REQUIREMENTS

In order to be a successful Physiotherapist in our team you will be:

• A qualified Physiotherapist, registered with the HCPC
• Experienced in a broad range of areas aforementioned
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced and varied role

The vacancy will be closed early if we receive a high number of applicants.

Person Specification

Essential Criteria

Essential

• Degree or graduate diploma in Physiotherapy
• Level 2 English qualification or equivalent
• Registered with the Health Care Professions Council
• Knowledge of the Mental Capacity Act and issues of consent in mental health
• Knowledge of the health inequalities and co-morbidities in people with mental health conditions
• Extensive experience of working in a range of related areas e.g. older people, falls and mobility, dementia
• Broad experience of working with clients with a range of physical health problems e.g. neurology, respiratory, musculoskeletal, orthopaedics
• Knowledge of current good practice in the prevention of falls
• Knowledge of good practice in manual handling
• Experience of working in a ward environment
• Experience of working as part of an MDT
• Experience of providing training
• Able to communication complex condition related information to service users, carers and colleagues
• Work with others in the development of knowledge, ideas and work practices including policies and strategies
• Develop partnership working with individuals, groups, communities and agencies
• Delegate work to others
• Demonstrate the ability to prioritise cases
• Demonstrate clinical reasoning skills
• Demonstrate strategies for organising own workload on a day to day basis
• Ability to use Trust IT systems including e-mail and electronic clinical records (standard keyboard skills)
• Ability to be able to concentrate on specialist assessment and report writing
• Ability to be able to deal with conflicting demands within the caseload
• Ability to cope with emotional demands of clients, families and carers where long term mental health issues exist
• Ability to deal with ward work setting
• Demonstrate support for the values and beliefs of the Care Group and those of the Trust
• Demonstrate an understanding of the practices of Human Rights in the delivery of this role
• Team working
• Ability to travel across sites
• Punctual and flexible across hours of work when required

Desirable

• Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Previous experience of working with People mental health conditions
• Lived experience of mental health issues
• Clinical educator supervisory skills

Employer details

Employer name

Sussex Partnership NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Woodlands Centre for Acute Care

729 The Ridge

Saint Leonards-on-sea

TN37 7PT

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