Physiotherapist Northenden, England
Job description
We are excited to to be advertising for a band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our friendly and supportive Crisis Response Team in South Manchester. We are advertising for one permanent, full time position, and are looking for a physiotherapist with exceptional generic assessment and therapeutic skills, whoa re motivated to deliver the highest quality of care through personal ad professional development and collaborative multi disciplinary working.
The Crisis response team forms part of the wider Manchester Community response Team. MCR encompasses Crisis Response, Discharge to Assess, Community IV, ICT and reablement.
The Crisis Response Team support people with a health or social care crisis to stay at home and avoid unnecessary hospital admission. We provide same-day assessment by our integrated, multi-disciplinary team to make safe and stabilise.
Our friendly and supportive team is made up of Advanced Clinical Practitioners, Physiotherapists, Occupational therapists, pharmacists, social workers and senior health care support workers. We can support patients at home for 72 hours. Referrals are received from a range of sources across the community health, social care, primary care and hospital (A&E/CDU/AMU) settings.
The Crisis Response Team currently works from 8am until 10pm 7 days per week.
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
