Advanced Physiotherapist
Location
Warrington, England, United Kingdom
Posted At
8/13/2025
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Description
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated and creative individual to join the Warrington Community Learning Disabilities Service.
Working within an established multi disciplinary team, the post holder will provide highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and intervention as part of a team approach to treating/supporting people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
As part of an Advanced Physiotherapist’s role you will be in an ideal position to support and contribute to Physiotherapy/Learning Disabilities Strategy and Team Development.
You should have a keen interest in working with this client group and be able to demonstrate the ability to work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team. Plus have an understanding of Transforming Care
In return you will join a supportive and enthusiastic team and receive management and clinical supervision.
The post holder will provide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for adult service users with a Learning Disability, as an autonomous practitioner. To provide physiotherapy advice, guidance and information to service users and health and social care professionals.
To plan, deliver and evaluate the service in liaison with the Physiotherapy Strategic and Professional Lead.
To be professional and legally accountable for all aspects of own work to ensue a high standard of clinical care.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of service users and use advance clinical reasoning skills and analysis of non clinical issues to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions with multipathology, chronic and /or terminal presentation.
To formulate individualised condition management and short and long term plans, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and strategies; to create, implement and monitor specialised programmes of care.
To assess capacity, gain valid information consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with the service users who lack capacity to consent.
To use effective communication skills in the explanation of complex pathologies and negotiation and delivery of palliative or rehabilitative treatment to service users with cognitive/intellectual impairment e.g., acute/chronic mental health conditions.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Evans Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01925 664444
Working within an established multi disciplinary team, the post holder will provide highly specialist Physiotherapy assessment and intervention as part of a team approach to treating/supporting people with learning disabilities and complex needs.
As part of an Advanced Physiotherapist’s role you will be in an ideal position to support and contribute to Physiotherapy/Learning Disabilities Strategy and Team Development.
You should have a keen interest in working with this client group and be able to demonstrate the ability to work as part of a Multidisciplinary Team. Plus have an understanding of Transforming Care
In return you will join a supportive and enthusiastic team and receive management and clinical supervision.
The post holder will provide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, and treatment for adult service users with a Learning Disability, as an autonomous practitioner. To provide physiotherapy advice, guidance and information to service users and health and social care professionals.
To plan, deliver and evaluate the service in liaison with the Physiotherapy Strategic and Professional Lead.
To be professional and legally accountable for all aspects of own work to ensue a high standard of clinical care.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of service users and use advance clinical reasoning skills and analysis of non clinical issues to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions with multipathology, chronic and /or terminal presentation.
To formulate individualised condition management and short and long term plans, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and strategies; to create, implement and monitor specialised programmes of care.
To assess capacity, gain valid information consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with the service users who lack capacity to consent.
To use effective communication skills in the explanation of complex pathologies and negotiation and delivery of palliative or rehabilitative treatment to service users with cognitive/intellectual impairment e.g., acute/chronic mental health conditions.
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.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Nicola Evans Job title: Clinical Team Manager Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 01925 664444
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