Advanced Practitioner Physiotherapy Upper Limb

Advanced Practitioner: Physiotherapy Upper Limb

Band 8a

Main area

Therapies

Grade

Band 8a

Contract

Permanent

Hours

Part time - 22.5 hours per week (Across LUHFT sites, main base Aintree site)

Job ref

287-AMED-63-26

Department name

LUH - 1 General Staffing (AFC posts)

Site

AUH Musculoskeletal Therapies

Town

Liverpool

Salary

£55,690 - £62,682 per annum, pro rata

Salary period

Yearly

Closing

31/03/2026 23:59

Job Overview

Advanced Physiotherapist Practitioner Shoulder and Elbow

This role provides an exciting opportunity for an experienced clinician with an Advanced Practice Masters who has a passion for Shoulder and Elbow assessment and rehabilitation to work alongside our Consultant Upper Limb Therapist to deliver high quality care for our patients.

The successful candidate will work within our team of Shoulder and Elbow clinicians providing clinical expertise within Aintree Physiotherapy departments, cross site Musculoskeletal Triage Clinics (MCAS) and Broadgreen Hospital Elective Consultant led Clinics, cross site Musculoskeletal Triage Clinics (MCAS) and Broadgreen Hospital Elective Consultant led Clinics. The role will lead on service development and provide clinical education, supervision, leadership, research and audit, and clinical expertise, in line with the Advanced Practice framework. Working within this large university foundation trust will enable the successful candidate to shape service delivery and influence change at a local, regional and national level.

We have a planned interview date of 30/04/2026.

Main duties of the job

Main Duties Of The Job

• Clinical lead for Shoulder and Elbow MCAS (Musculoskeletal Clinical Assessment Service) primarily based at Aintree but offering cover at other sites
• Electronic Musculoskeletal Triage
• Expert physiotherapy assessment supporting the MDT
• Undertake complex patient problem solving reviews in physiotherapy department
• Manage a caseload of complex Shoulder and Elbow physiotherapy patients
• To order and oversee Shoulder and Elbow investigations within physiotherapy departments
• Lead Shoulder and Elbow service development including audit and research activity
• Shoulder and Elbow clinical education
• Development of evidence-based pathways for Shoulder and Elbow conditions
  
  

Working for our organisation

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 regiona

l 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.

Detailed Job Description And Main Responsibilities

The successful candidate should possess wide ranging knowledge and skills in the assessment and management of Shoulder and Elbow conditions. They will take a lead role in the triage, clinical assessment, and management of patients with Shoulder and Elbow conditions referred to the outpatient therapy service. This will include working in an Advanced Practice role assessing and diagnosing patients referred to the MCAS service and within Consultant led clinics.

The role will involve referring patients for a wide range of investigations including imaging and blood tests, evaluating and

acting upon the results. Using a shared decision-making approach, they will be required to make onward referrals to relevant services and agencies to optimise patient care. Training opportunities are available to support this skill development if required.

A flexible and dynamic approach is essential, and the successful candidate must be willing to work across all trust sites. Some of the 22.5 hours will be fixed due to the clinical templates, but others could be negotiable.

The post holder will provide clinical expertise and leadership in the ongoing development of the Shoulder and Elbow service in collaboration with key stakeholders. They will take an active role in service evaluation, audit and research and contribute to shared learning and evidence-based practice.

Person specification

Other

Essential criteria

• Demonstrate a good understanding of Risk Assessment and Health & Safety issues
• Positive attitude to change and flexible work practices to meet the changing demands of the service
• Be adaptable to changing needs of the service and clinical role giving resource and expertise as required
  
  

Skills

Essential criteria

• Ability to work flexibly across the service to support other Clinical staff and Therapies Management team on other specific initiatives and developments as required
• Ability to initiate evidence based practice within clinical area
• Ability to manage own time within clinical and non-clinical activity and to show effective leadership skills empowering others to use problem solving and decision making skills
• Ability to demonstrate specialist clinical skills accompanied by an extensive and current working knowledge of Therapy practice within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
• Highly effective communicator at all levels
• Ability to manage own stress and awareness of stress in others and ability to access support as relevant
• High level of ability to work in multidisciplinary and collaborative teams
• Ability to demonstrate tact/diplomacy and empathy within clinical and team settings
• High level of interpersonal skills
• High level of organisational and negotiation skills
• Ability to lead effectively
• Ability to motivate patients/staff

Ability to demonstrate assertiveness within the clinical/team and service settings

Ability to delegate appropriately

Ability to represent the Therapy service and the organisation at Trust initiatives and with external agencies

Ability to demonstrate and promote reflective practice

Demonstrate a commitment to personal development and the development of others

Demonstrate a commitment to keep up to date with all mandatory training

Knowledge

Essential criteria

• Extensive working knowledge of Therapy practice within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
• Ability to demonstrate a comprehensive clinical expertise within the identified specialist field of clinical practice
• Excellent clinical reasoning skills
• To act as an expert within specialist clinical field providing strong clinical leadership both within Therapies and the wider multi-disciplinary team
• Take an active role within multi-agency practice both within the organisation and outside the Trust
• Good understanding of standardised assessment tools and treatment principles
• Ability to demonstrate clinical reasoning and an holistic problem solving approach

Awareness of and local involvement in current NHS issues and relevant frameworks/quality indicators

Demonstrate awareness of Clinical Governance and its application within Therapies

Experience

Essential criteria

• Effective teaching and presentation skills, experience of formal teaching and presentation
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Experience of Human Resource related issues e.g. recruitment/retention, management of sickness, attendance and special leave
• Proven experience in the formal management and supervision of staff
  
  

Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Diploma/Degree in Therapy profession
• Current registration with the HCPC
• Masters qualification or equivalent
• Completion of Educator /Mentorship qualification or equivalent.
  
  

Desirable criteria

• Training qualification in relevant management/leadership development
• Non-medical prescribing qualification (dependent on role) - Desirable
  
  

Please ensure you check the email account (including junk/spam boxes) from which you apply regularly as we will use this to contact you regarding your application.

Posts advertised to 'internal staff' are open to employees of hospitals within University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and you should confirm your employment within your application form.

Note: Under current Home Office Immigration Rules we are currently unable to offer right to work visa sponsorship for Band 2 and 3 roles with a salary of less than £25,000 pa as they do not meet the UK Visas & Immigration criteria.

Only those applicants who demonstrate clearly how they meet our person specification will be shortlisted for interview.

We reserve the right to close any vacancies from further applications when we have received a minimum number of applications from which to make a shortlist. Please ensure you apply without delay if you wish to be considered for this role.

Candidates applying for the role of Healthcare Assistant on the staff bank should note that due to the nature of the role, workers must be aged 18 or above when commencing in post. Applicants are therefore welcome from those aged over 18 or within 3 months' of their 18^th birthday.

The Trust is committed to promoting a healthy work-life balance and achieve fair, equitable and consistent practice. We welcome flexible working requests and will consider a variety of flexible working arrangements from day one of your employment. Not all roles are suitable for every flexible working opportunity all of the time. Flexible working

options may include reduced hours, compressed hours, fixed shifts, time back in lieu and home working.

The Trust is committed to promoting equality and diversity; we value the contribution of individual talent, skills, knowledge and experience and aim for a workforce demography representative of the local community. We encourage applicants from the following groups that are currently under-represented in our workforce black, Asian and minority ethnic, lesbian, gay, bisexual and Transgender (LGBTQ+), disabled, male and age 16-24.

Trust policy requires that the cost of submitting & processing the successful applicant/s DBS application be recovered via salary deduction following start in post. The amount of £26.50 (standard disclosure) or £54.50 (enhanced disclosure) will be deducted from salary, in manageable monthly instalments for up to 3 months following commencement of employment. Bank posts require upfront payment.

From April 2017, Skilled visa applicants and their adult dependant(s) will be required to provide a criminal record certificate from each country they have lived in consecutively for 12 months or more in the past ten years.

Applicants requiring sponsorship may wish to determine the likelihood of obtaining sponsorship for this position by assessing themselves against the criteria on the gov.uk website - https://www.gov.uk/check-uk-visa.

This organisation has a zero-tolerance approach to the abuse of children, young people a

nd vulnerable adults. All staff must ensure they adhere to the organisations safeguarding children and adults' policy and comply with the Local Safeguarding Children and Adult Board procedures.

Staff should be mindful of their responsibility to safeguard children and adults in any activity performed on behalf of the organisation in line with the requirements of statutory guidance and legislation.

All employees (and volunteers)are expected maintain their safeguarding knowledge and skills by completing mandatory safeguarding training which includes understanding and recognising the signs of abuse and neglect and taking appropriate action.

As an organisation, we have adopted the Merseyside Domestic abuse workplace scheme which supports our staff who are experiencing Domestic Abuse /any forms of sexual violence.

If you have any personal requirements that will enable you to participate in our recruitment process please contact a member of the Recruitment Services by phone on 0151 706 4666 at the earliest opportunity to ensure that measures can be put in place to enable your application for this post.

Please note: new entrants to the NHS will commence on the first pay point of the relevant band.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

Documents to download

Job Description & Person Specification (PDF, 242.3KB)

OH Risk ID Form (PDF, 552.5KB)

Recruitment Documents (PDF, 383.5KB)

Life at LUHFT Benefits (PDF, 333.2KB)

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name

Jo Winton

Job title

Upper Limb Consultant Therapist

Email address

Telephone number

0151 706 2760

Additional information

Katy Clay

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