An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Physiotherapist to develop and work in our citywide, non-medically led Spinal Service at University Hospitals of Liverpool Group. This is a split role between our ED/inpatient service and outpatient spinal Therapies. Within ED/inpatients you will manage a spinal caseload using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience, developing an extended scope of practice. In outpatients you will provide spinal clinical expertise within the Physiotherapy department, Musculoskeletal Triage Clinics (MCAS) and Consultant-led Clinics to deliver high quality patient care.
Working with other advanced practitioners (APs), you will lead on service development and provide clinical education, supervision, leadership, research and audit, in addition to clinical expertise, in line with the HEE AP framework. Working within this large university hospital foundation trust will enable you to shape service delivery, influence practice and drive innovation and change at a local, regional and national level, with specific focus on management of spinal presentations across primary and secondary care.
If you would like to be part of this exciting journey but don’t have all the requisite knowledge and experience, training/apprenticeship MSc AP posts will be considered. This role is ideally suited to full-time applicants, though some flexibility is available. There is an expectation to work across the two main acute hospital sites.
- To deliver expert specialist evidence-based care including development, assessment, planning, implementing, evaluating programmes of evidence-based care for a defined caseload.
- To improve the experience and outcomes of care for patients by taking the lead in investigations and treatments prescribed.
- To provide a consistent and personalised service by ensuring that the patients receive the best care, in the best place from the best person or team.
- To provide social, emotional and psychological support for patients from referral and throughout their treatment.
- To make appropriate referral to consultants/other specialist/members of the multidisciplinary team in primary, secondary or tertiary care settings.
- To be aware of risk management issues both locally and nationally and develop strategies to address identified issues.
MSK outpatients comprises 60% of the role.
Please see both attached job descriptions for full details regarding roles and responsibilities. Shortlisting will be based on the shared essential criteria relevant to the combined role.
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust comprises Aintree University Hospital, Broadgreen Hospital & Royal Liverpool University Hospital.
We are part of NHS University Hospitals of Liverpool Group, formed on 1 Nov 2024 from the coming together of LUHFT and Liverpool Women’s NHS Foundation Trust. The Group was born from a shared aim to improve the care we provide our patients.
UHLG is one of the largest employers in the region, with over 16,800 colleagues dedicated to caring for our communities - from birth and beyond.
For the 630,000 people across Merseyside, we are their local NHS. We provide general and emergency hospital care, alongside highly specialised regional services for more than two million people in the North West.
Aintree University Hospital is the single receiving site for adult major trauma patients in Cheshire and Merseyside and hosts a number of regional services including an award-winning stroke facility. Broadgreen Hospital is home to elective surgical, diagnostic and treatment services, together with specialist patient rehabilitation. Liverpool Women’s Hospital specialises in the health of women and babies, delivering over 7,200 babies in the UK’s largest single site maternity hospital each year. The Royal Liverpool University Hospital is the largest hospital in the country to provide inpatients with 100% single bedrooms and focuses on complex planned care and specialist services.
For roles at Liverpool Women’s, visit their careers page.
For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Lorraine Thompson Job title: Spinal Consultant Therapist Email address: lorraine.thompson@liverpoolft.nhs.uk Telephone number: 0151 7062766
