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Job overview
Liverpool Wheelchair Service is looking for enthusiastic and motivated Band 7 therapist to join our team. The successful candidate will provide assessment, provision of wheelchairs, postural support and pressure management to the most complex patients within the service.
The skills required for this post include practical problem-solving skills, and sound clinical reasoning skills. An effective team player with excellent organisational and communication skills required to work in a busy service.
The successful candidate will provide clinical specialist support across the team, engaging in clinical staff supervision, staff training and service development.
You will work alongside the B7 Clinical Leads to assist in the operational running the service, ensuring service objectives and goals are met.
You will undertake comprehensive assessments of complex patients with a variety of physical, cognitive and/or learning disabilities. A high level of understanding of the impact of these conditions, and identification of social and environmental issues that may impact on the final equipment recommendations is key to providing a holistic posture/pressure management solution with a wheelchair.
We are an innovative service with a goal of providing a high-quality service to our patients to achieve their mobility goals and enable their independence. We are looking for a forward-thinking therapist who will add to the team's dynamic approach and be committed to future service development.
Main duties of the job
- Wheelchair assessment and provision and prescription of wheeled mobility, pressure care and postural support.
- Management of complex caseloads.
- Supporting the wider therapy team in the management of complex caseloads
- Complex postural assessment and provision of wheelchairs to support patients as part of a 24 postural care approach.
- Support in development of B5 (static and rotational) therapists
Working for our organisation
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
* Provide care, advice and guidance in the treatment of others, when dealing with complex highly specialist conditions.
* Responsible for the delivery of identified specialist training.
* Work in partnership with the other services/stakeholder partnership agencies to enable patients/clients to be treated in the appropriate setting.
* Ensure that the team provides a high-quality service to its patients/clients by providing caseload and clinical supervision.
* Ensure that teams work proactively to deliver anticipatory and maintenance care, providing a responsive service to patients with both planned and unplanned care needs.
* Develop partnerships and joint working with service users and stakeholders to improve patient/client care.
* Work in partnership with other organisations to support the effective and co-ordinated provision of health and social care services.
* Participate in the development of caseload management across the local health economy.
* Provide leadership and mentoring to those staff developing into a caseload management role.
* Challenge professional and organisational boundaries to ensure that the role is focused on meeting the needs of service users.
* Act as an advocate and champion for patients/clients in a variety of forums and professional groups and challenge attitudes and behaviour.
* Act as a role model to others ensuring that patients receive the most effective care possible.
* Contribute to the development of policy and services to reflect the needs of the target population.
* Practice autonomously and demonstrate evidence based clinical decision making.
* Provide clinical expertise and knowledge to others when managing complex and highly complex situations.
* Assess patient conditions and consider a range of options when delivering complex and highly complex care, drawing on specialist services as required.
* Undertake chronic disease management reviews of the housebound patient/client, where appropriate.
* Provide support in managing patients/clients with chronic diseases.
* Following holistic assessment of need, develop individualised care plans to fulfil those needs, with the involvement of patients and carers.
* Implement and evaluate care delivery for patients/clients with identified needs.
* Direct and support the management of complex and highly complex, continuing care packages.
* Ensure that all clinical activity provided by the team directly reflects the core objectives of health promotion, supported self-care, disease specific management, management of long-term conditions and end of life/palliative care.
* Set objectives, by which performance will be monitored.
* Work with the Service Lead to deliver local based services, by participating in meetings and communicating the outcomes to others.
* Provide reports to the service lead on activity as requested.
* Actively participate in policy and service development authoring protocols as required.
* Undertake clinical/service improvement audits.
* The post holder will utilise data and data tools (including databases) to produce appropriate monitoring reports on both patient care and service outcomes and produce appropriate communication for patients.
* Communicate at all levels of the organisation to a variety of health and social care professionals to provide best outcomes for patients/clients.
* Maintain up to date knowledge and competence in line with professional and service requirements and demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and reflective skills to ensure own professional development.
* Create an environment in which learning and practice development is fostered, evaluated and disseminated.
* Facilitate effective learning within the area of practice for all students and practitioners.
* Provide support to team members holding responsibility for mentoring students.
* Undertake the training and development of other clinicians.
* Monitor and maintain standards of patient/client care delivery. Including maintaining and monitoring of clinical competency and standards of record keeping.
* In conjunction with the service lead, ensure systems are in place for the ongoing review and assessment of care provision and delivery.
* Deliver clinical training and supported experience, identified via Personal Development Plan (PDP) and Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF).
* Work within guidelines to identify and manage risk, reporting identified risks to the service lead.
* Report any incidents as per Trust policies and support or undertake any investigations as delegated by the service lead.
* Monitor and ensure that the quality of the patient care delivered by those to whom training is provided is evidenced based and supported by best practice, using audit, caseload and clinical supervision.
* Participate in patient satisfaction reporting to improve patient care.
* The post holder shall as necessary provide cover for and undertake duties of absent colleagues.
* The post holder shall follow all the policies and procedures of the organisation.
Person specification
Values
Essential criteria
* Continuous Improvement
* Accountability
* Respectfulness
* Enthusiasm
* Support
* Responsive to service users
* Engaging leadership style
* Strong customer service belief
* Transparency and honesty
* Discreet
Skills
Essential criteria
* Awareness of current national and local agenda in health and social care.
* Evidence of being able to communicate complex, sensitive information and advice on healthcare to patients / carers / colleagues.
* Understanding of multi-agency working.
* Ability to network with multidisciplinary colleagues.
* Awareness of factors that contribute to good health and the importance of promoting these in line with organisational public health policy.
* IT literate.
* Ability to work under pressure and manage a diverse workload.
* Excellent communication, organisational and interpersonal skills.
* Risk assessment skills.
* Ability to understand and analyse complex data.
* Self-management and motivation skills.
* Confidence to challenge poor practice and ability to address difficult issues.
* Report writing skills.
* Ability to travel to work across boundaries.
Desirable criteria
* Research skills.
Knowledge/Experience
Essential criteria
* Experience of management and clinical leadership.
* Experience of successful multi-agency working.
Desirable criteria
* First line management experience.
Qualifications
Essential criteria
* Degree, or equivalent, or equivalent work based experience.
* Registration with relevant professional body.
* Appropriate prescriber.
* Post registration qualification, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
* Evidence of CPD/short courses.
* Evidence of influencing, motivating and negotiating with others to achieve change in relation to care.
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Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for applicants who consider themselves to be disabled who meet the minimum (essential) criteria for the role in the person specification. If you would like your application to be considered under the Trust's guaranteed interview scheme you can indicate this in the personal information section of your online application form.
Should you require a reasonable adjustment to our recruitment process please email recruitment@merseycare.nhs.uk to ensure that measures can be put in place to support you.
We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.
The Trust expects all post holders who require an enhanced DBS for their role subscribe to the DBS Update Service. You will be required to enrol for this service for a fee of £16 per year and maintain registration. Trans applicants who require a DBS check and do not want to reveal details of their previous identity can contact the DBS Sensitive Applications Team (01516761452 or email sensitive@dbs.gsi.gov.uk) with their application number once they have completed their DBS application form. The team can prevent any previous identity showing on the DBS Certificate, unless the applicant has a conviction under their previous details in which case this will need to be disclosed.
Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.
Flexible working requests will be considered for all roles.
Please be advised that the use of Artificial Intelligence on applications is monitored and if you choose to use this, you must declare this on your application form.
Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
* NM CS CO309_Clinical Specialist-Advanced Practitioner_Band 7 (PDF, 465.3KB)
* OH Risk ID Form with guidance June 25- B7 Clinical Specialist Wheelchair therapist (PDF, 384.6KB)
* A Great Place to Work (PDF, 2.1MB)
* Our People Promise and Charter (PDF, 5.8MB)
* Employee Benefits (PDF, 950.7KB)
* Your Recruitment Journey (PDF, 291.0KB)
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