Highly Specialist Learning Disability Physiotherapist

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist to join Specialist Learning Disability Services based in Hertfordshire for a fixed 12 month period (maternity cover).

The successful candidate will work as an influential and integral member of a diverse multi-disciplinary team and will join the Physiotherapy Team .

You will be a highly motivated, experienced clinician and will be able to demonstrate an interest and specialist knowledge in working with this client group. You will have excellent communication and organisational skills and be enthusiastic about working as part of a dynamic, multi-disciplinary team.

You will receive regular clinical supervision and support from the Professional Lead Physiotherapist and will work closely with the Professional Lead to develop Physiotherapy services within learning disabilities across Hertfordshire ., Key job roles:

• To provide comprehensive Physiotherapy assessment and intervention for specified service user group.


• To carry a caseload as a member of a multi-disciplinary team.


• To provide clinical leadership to Physiotherapy staff within the service.


• To provide supervision to Physiotherapists and students within the work setting.


• To lead in a specialist area and contribute to the development of specialist service related policies., To provide high quality Physiotherapy and consultation to people within the Specialist Learning Disability Service .


• To manage a complex caseload, using evidence based/client principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in clinic and community settings and on home visits.


• To effectively manage the local waiting list and KPI's


• To formulate and implement plans for the formal Physiotherapy treatment and/or management of a client's condition and risk based upon an appropriate conceptual framework of the client's problems.


• To provide specialist Physiotherapy advice, guidance and consultation to other professionals contributing directly to a client's formulation, diagnosis and case management plan.


• To provide leadership locally for the Physiotherapists within the Herts Specialist Learning Disability Service.
  
  Diploma / degree in Phyiotherapy


• State registration with HCPC


• Fieldwork Educators Qualification


• Evidence of having met the full KSF Gateway for Band 6


• Evidence of continuing professional development


• Membership of special interest group


Desirable criteria


• M.S.C.P


• Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting


• Broad base of clinical experience


• Leadership / Management Training


• Significant Postgraduate Training relevant to Learning Disability, Effective written and oral communication skills


• Understanding of team dynamics


• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with relevant stakeholders


• Supervisory skills


Desirable criteria


• Training and facilitation skills, Posture management


• Specialist seating


• Assessment of complex disability and respiratory care


• Broad knowledge of current best practice in Physiotherapy and Learning Disability


• Application of the Physiotherapy process with designated client group


• Planning and coordination of treatment packages


• Ability to use problem solving techniques


• Ability to analyse professional and ethical issues


• Applied knowledge of mental health legislation including CPA and risk assessment and Management


• Ability to reflect on and critically appraise own performance.


• Working knowledge of Practice Governance.


Desirable criteria


• Completed Basic Bobath Course


• The ability to demonstrate creative practice Experience of audits/evaluations of interventions and implementation of any subsequent changes to practice, Specialist knowledge and application of current best practice in Physiotherapy.


• Experience of learning disability conditions


• Post registration experience in a relevant clinical setting


• Understanding of treatments and interventions commonly used in Learning Disability


• Broad base of clinical experience working with people with a Learning Disability


• Understanding of and ability to resolve professional and ethical Issues


• Understanding current Policies and Practice relevant to Learning Disability and their implications for Physiotherapy


• Experience of generic and specialist Physiotherapy assessments and interventions


• Experience of working in some or all of the following areas: Neurology Learning Disability Respiratory Care Moving and Handling Working in community setting


• Experience in providing advice, support and clinical supervision to junior staff and/or students


Desirable criteria


• Knowledge & experience of Recruitment and Selection criteria


• Project Management


• Change Management Skills


• Experience in research or audit


• Effective leadership skills, including the ability to manage conflict, good communication, planning and decision making skills, organisational skills and the ability to innovate in Service Development, You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
  
  Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is an outstanding organisation with ambitions to match. We are one of just five mental health trusts to achieve an overall rating of 'Outstanding' from the Care Quality Commission, and our aim is to be the leading provider of mental health and specialist learning disability services in the country.


Our family of over 3500 members of staff provide health and social care for over 400,000 people with mental ill health, physical ill health and learning disabilities across Hertfordshire, Buckinghamshire, and Norfolk, delivering these services within the community and several inpatient settings. We also deliver a range of nationally commissioned specialist services including Tier 4 services for children and young people, perinatal services, plus medium and low secure learning disabilities services.

The care we provide makes a fantastic difference to the lives of our service users, their families and carers - everything is underpinned by choice, independence and equality, with our Trust values embedded throughout:

Our Trust values are:

Welcoming. Kind. Positive. Respectful. Professional.

These values are at the core of who we are, everything we do, and how we do it!

Would you like to be part of the HPFT family? Would you like work with us to ensure our service users live the fullest lives possible they can? Would you like to be supported in your career to be the best that you can be?, Hertfordshire Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust (HPFT) is rated by the Care Quality Commission as an Outstanding provider of mental health and learning disability services. In 2021, we won the prestigious Health Service Journal award for Mental Health Trust of the Year, with the judges saying they were "blown away" by our people's achievements and that everything they saw "sings and hums". This year, our staff rated us the 4^th best mental health and learning disability trust to work for out of all 52 trusts in the country. Our staff tell us that they are proud to be part of the HPFT team, proud of the standard of care we provide and proud that service users are our top priority. Our people tell us they feel supported though a great development, wellbeing and work-life balance offer and a highly compassionate, values-driven culture. We are equally proud of our staff, who live our values of being welcoming, kind, positive, respectful and professional