Our Vision is to provide the best mental health, learning disability, autism, community, and physical health services for the populations we serve.
As an integrated Trust, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust (LSCFT) delivers a comprehensive range of services, including:
* Primary and secondary mental health care for children and adults, including specialist inpatient child and adolescent mental health provision, perinatal mental health, and forensic services with low and medium secure care.
* Specialist mental health inpatient care for individuals with learning disabilities, alongside specialist community support for children and adults with learning disabilities and autism, including intensive support.
* Extensive community physical health and well-being services for children and adults, covering prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, and long-term condition management.
The Trust was first established in 2002 and employs approximately 7,500 staff who provide care from more than 400 sites. The organisation offers opportunities for medics, mental health, general nurses, children’s nurses, allied health professionals, psychology, administration and clerical staff, apprentices and volunteers, as well as those specialising in learning disabilities and community physical health services.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Principal Physiotherapist with the knowledge, skills and experience to work at advanced level with people with a learning disability and/or autism. This is a rare chance to shape and strengthen physiotherapy provision across both community services and Water Meadow View, the Trust’s specialist mental health inpatient unit for people with a learning disability. The successful applicant will play a pivotal role in championing high quality, equitable, person-centred care, ensuring that people are supported to maximise physical health, participation and quality of life.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will provide clinical support to professionals working in the service and deliver expert assessment and intervention. You will also have the opportunity to use your skills, knowledge and experience to facilitate and lead complex clinical work across the care group footprint, influencing practice across pathways and settings. This post offers genuine scope to innovate, develop new ways of working and help transform services across organisational boundaries, strengthening joint working with partners and improving outcomes for people with learning disabilities and/or autism.
You will have a passion for person centred, evidence based practice, and a proven track record of driving up standards through clinical leadership, quality improvement and service development. You will be supported and encouraged to lead and promote research and innovation, share learning, and inspire others—making a visible, lasting contribution to the Trust’s improvement journey and the wider system.
Working for our organisation
LSCFT values diversity and inclusion, recognising that talent from varied backgrounds creates a flexible, creative, and effective workforce. We actively challenge discrimination and welcome applications from all, regardless of age, disability (including those with experience of accessing or caring for someone who has accessed mental health or learning disability services), ethnicity, gender, religion, belief, or sexual orientation.
Our aim is to reflect the communities we serve, so we particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups. If you’d like to discuss your application, please ask.
We also welcome individuals with lived experience relevant to the role or service area, as your insight brings authenticity to our services.
LSCFT support flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours and flexi-time.
The wellbeing of our people is at the heart of everything we do. We offer a wide range of resources, tools and support to help you thrive both in and out of work.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
In exchange we will support you to achieve your potential as both a senior leader and a clinician. If you are wanting to join us on our improvement journey and take the next exciting steps in your career, we’d love to hear from you.
Person specification
Qualifications
* First degree/equivalent professional pre-registration qualification in Physiotherapy/Occupational Therapy/Speech & Language Therapy
* HCPC registered Licence to practice
* Validated postgraduate qualifications/courses in relevant areas
* Significant post qualification experience in the relevant field
Knowledge
* Extensive specialist knowledge of the care and management of patients in area of specialist
* Expert clinician with advanced clinical reasoning and therapy skills
* Evidence of clinical leadership skills including influencing and achieving change and professional development of others
* Evidence of managing individual staff/teams and managing performance, including undertaking appraisals
For all posts which require a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check please be aware of the Disclosure and Barring Service Code of Practice, a copy of which is available by logging on to the DBS website. If the post is subject to DBS disclosure, a charge will be made to the successful candidate(s).
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.
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