Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Job ref
- 160-7994144
- Employer
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- Liverpool
- Salary
- £57,528 - £64,750 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 19/07/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Band 8a Advanced Physiotherapist - Critical Care and Respiratory
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Job overview
The Walton Centre Therapy service offers excellent development opportunities for ambitious Physiotherapists who strive for professional excellence.
We need a clinically experienced, specialist physiotherapist with a strong interest in Neurosciences Critical Care and Acute Respiratory Medicine to provide advanced clinical leadership and support to our specialist multi-disciplinary team within the Trust.
You will have excellent leadership and organisational skills, be a strong team player and have a flexible approach to service delivery and operational management. You will have a strong commitment to CPD and your clinical and professional development will be supported through regular appraisals and training.
Main duties of the job
- Establish and manage a complex clinical caseload as appropriate to the service
- To clinically lead and influence the critical care / respiratory physiotherapy service ensuring advanced level clinical intervention and specialist evidenced based care.
- To work collaboratively with other clinicians, including medical and nursing staff to influence service development and ensure quality of care is delivered
- To lead on the provision of clinical education and training to other health care professionals both internal and external to the Trust
- To influence and lead research, innovation and professional development for self and others.
Working for our organisation
The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust is the only NHS trust to hold dual accreditation for the Investors in People. We invest in people and we invest in wellbeing standards and have been awarded Gold status for both. The Walton Centre is a leader in the treatment and care of neurology and neurosurgery, placing the patient and their family at the heart of everything we do. As the only specialist hospital trust in the UK dedicated to providing comprehensive neurology, neurosurgery, spinal and pain management services we are proud to be rated as an Outstanding Trust by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), and champion change throughout the field of neuroscience. Originally formed in 1992, the Trust received Foundation Trust status in 2009.
With around 1,450 staff, The Walton Centre treats more than 127,000 outpatients and 18,000 inpatients each year. We have leading specialists and incredibly dedicated staff delivering excellent clinical outcomes for brain, spinal and neurological care nationally and internationally. Teams across our site in Fazakerley, Liverpool, offer a world-class service in diagnosing and treating injuries and illnesses affecting the brain, spine and peripheral nerves and muscles, and in supporting people suffering from a wide range of long-term neurological conditions.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the job description and person specification document for detailed information about the job description for this vacancy.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Discipline Specific Degree or Diploma
- Relevant Professional Registration
- MSc Advanced Practice from accredited pathway or willingness to undertake qualification
- Management / Leadership training
Desirable criteria
- Mentorship experience or Professional practice educators qualification
Knowledhe and Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of significant breadth and depth of post-registration clinical experience at as advanced level
- Evidence of attendance at relevant post graduate courses and ongoing maintenance of up to date professional development
- Extensive experience in the assessment and treatment of Critical Care and Acute Respiratory Conditions
- Able to plan, deliver and manage a highly, complex and demanding workload.
- Extensive understanding of the therapy role in the management of patients on critical care and within acute ward environments
- Highly specialist knowledge of range of assessments, therapy intervention and efficacy measurements
- Critical understanding of the broadened level of responsibility and autonomy within advanced practice roles
- Able lead on the development of specialist care protocols / packages / pathways relating to a range of issues.
General
Essential criteria
- To have highly developed and advanced interpersonal skills
- Effective and responsive communicator on all levels
- Able to write, implement and audit policies
- Able to use basic IT systems; Word, Excel, Outlook
- High level presentation and education skills
- High level of organisational skills
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary team
- A positive attitude to change and flexible working practices to meet changing service demands
Desirable criteria
- Experience in staff and performance and management
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Jo Haworth
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Rehab Therapies
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0151 556 3961
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