Mental Health Physiotherapy is a fast-growing and exciting specialism within Physiotherapy. This is a unique opportunity to join a team of mental health physiotherapists working across the Trusts adult mental health wards. 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 living 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 4 and Band 5 Physiotherapists, and at which point you would be responsible for supervision. There are currently opportunities to support student Physiotherapists.
The post holder will be based within reasonable distance of Hastings and Eastbourne/Bexhill and will need to able to travel to work at other sites on occasions. They will also need to be able to travel to other sites for meetings and training on occasions.
Experience in mental health is advantageous but not essential.
- Strong supportive teams with dedicated supportive leaders
- Excellent CPD opportunities
- A service that works to develop clear evidence-based care pathways
You will already possess a broad range of skills to manage a varied caseload across a range of care pathways including, mobility and falls, rehabilitation of injuries and conditions, pain management, postural care, musculoskeletal, orthopaedic and neurological conditions. Due to the specialist nature of the role and broad range of care pathways we offer, support and CPD to develop skills gaps.
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, as well as mental health 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.
Sussex Partnership provides mental health and learning disability care for all age groups across Sussex and for children and young people in Sussex.
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
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 post holder will provide evidence-based physiotherapy to adults with mental health conditions who are in-patients at sites across East Sussex. The sites are in Hastings and Eastbourne. Please note that the Eastbourne site is due to move to Bexhill but the date for this is unknown currently.
The post holder will work across adult and older adult wards at these sites. They will provide input to patients with a wide range of issues, namely mobility and falls, chronic pain, musculoskeletal, neurological, polytrauma / orthopaedic and postural care.
