Lead Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and highly motivated Physiotherapist to join our specialist multidisciplinary team working across Liaison Psychiatry Outpatients and the Leeds and West Yorkshire ME/CFS Service.

This unique role offers the opportunity to provide clinical and professional leadership across two specialist services that support individuals presenting with complex physical and psychological health needs, Persistent Physical Symptoms (PPS), Long Term Conditions, and ME/CFS.

Working alongside experienced colleagues from Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Dietetics, and medical professions, both services deliver integrated, person-centred care through a combination of outpatient appointments, and virtual consultations, with the requirement for community-based interventions across the West Yorkshire footprint. This enables accessible, flexible support for individuals whose conditions can significantly impact daily functioning, independence and quality of life.

The successful candidate will provide leadership for physiotherapy across both services, with responsibility for the development, delivery and ongoing evaluation of the Severely Affected (SA) Pathway within the ME/CFS Service and the Adult Rehabilitation for Complex Conditions (ARCC) Pathway within Liaison Psychiatry Outpatients. The successful candidate will also need to represent physiotherapy across the wider organisation and regionally and nationally when identified.

Main duties of the job

As Lead Physiotherapist, you will:

• Provide highly specialised physiotherapy assessment, formulation and intervention for patients with complex physical and psychological health difficulties.
• Lead the development, implementation, review and evaluation of the Severely Affected Pathway and ARCC Pathway across the respective services.
• Hold a caseload of individuals presenting with severe and complex ME/CFS, Persistent Physical Symptoms and long-term health conditions.
• Deliver physiotherapy interventions across clinic, virtual and domiciliary settings.
• Provide professional leadership, supervision and support to colleagues, students and wider team members.
• Chair and facilitate relevant MDT meetings, including ARCC and ME/CFS pathway discussions.
• Contribute to service design and redesign, quality improvement initiatives, audit and research activity.
• Deliver teaching, training and consultation to multidisciplinary colleagues, patients, carers and partner organisations.
• Support the development of psychologically informed and person-centred approaches to rehabilitation and recovery.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

This role combines advanced clinical practice, professional leadership and service development, for people with some of the most complex presentations across community and outpatient settings, providing an excellent opportunity for an experienced clinician looking to further develop their expertise within a highly specialist and evolving service.

If you are a motivated physiotherapist with a passion for service development and improving outcomes for people with complex long-term conditions and ME/CFS, we would welcome your application.

Please note – we may close this advert early if a sufficient number of applications are received.

We recruit people based on their values and qualifications (where required) and believe that their lived experience is an advantage, this means that together we are as diverse as the communities we care for. Simply put, when we employ caring people who act with integrity and have the right skills, we can give those with mental health challenges, learning disabilities and neurodiversity high-quality care and support to live fulfilling lives, and make our staff feel purposeful, happy and valued.

All our information is available in accessible formats. Please contact the Recruitment team recruitment.lypft@nhs.net

Attached to this advert is our candidates guide to values-based recruitment and supporting guidance on how to make a successful application.

If you require a reasonable adjustment, please contact the Recruitment Team or see the attached candidate guide to reasonable adjustments. To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, 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 Guide to Values Based Recruitment. This document provides you with information to help you apply.

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.