Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

At North London Foundation Trust, we are committed to improving the physical health of our service users and are passionate about addressing the health inequalities faced by those with mental health needs. As part of this prioritisation, we are setting up a Physical Health Therapies Team within the acute adult mental health in-patient services. This team will comprise of Allied Health Professionals often underrepresented on acute mental health wards. We are looking for an experienced Physiotherapist with a special interest in extending and/or developing their work with service users whilst in acute mental health care. You will be equally passionate about addressing inequality and committed to working alongside other AHPs to improve the physical health therapy offer. We have four acute sites in the Trust, the largest of which is in Highgate, London. The other sites are in Barnet, Haringey and Enfield. Your flexibility to work across these sites and to respond to need is essential. We are keen to evidence the difference this team can make. Development and quality improvement will be embedded as part of this role. We have close working relationships with our local physical health provision and will ensure these posts do not become isolated but are fully linked in with the North London wide offer.,

• The Physical Health Therapies Team will provide Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Dietetics and Podiatry services. The team will work in collaboration with established AHP teams and other physical health colleagues within the care group to deliver physical health interventions for adult service users in acute mental health wards within the North London NHS Foundation Trust.
• The postholder will provide clinical, operational, and professional leadership and managementof physiotherapy within the Physical Health Therapies Team, and help lead on the design, delivery, and development of high-quality care within this new service in line with advances in evidence-informed practice, digital transformation, etc.
  
  North London NHS Foundation Trust (NLFT) is committed to improving mental health care across North London to deliver excellent services to our local people.
  
  1. We will provide consistently high-quality care closer to home.
2. With our partners in North London and each borough we will ensure equity of outcome for all 3. We will offer great places to work, providing staff with supportive environment to deliver outstanding care Why NLFT?
• We develop and retain our staff through leadership behaviours and managers programme and many more opportunities.
• We promote flexible working and support staff with a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.
• NHS Discounts, generous annual leave and NHS pension scheme
• Excellent internal staff network
In order to meet the needs of the Trust you may be required from time to time to work at different locations to your normal place of work. This may mean that you are required to work at any location that fall under Barnet, Camden, Enfield, Haringey or Islington. The Trust reserves the right to require staff to work at such other places or locations as it considers reasonable and necessary on a temporary or permanent basis.