In this vital role based in Preston, you will lead a proactive physiotherapy service, focusing on the health and wellbeing of your colleagues. Collaborating closely with our Occupational Health team, you’ll deliver tailored assessments and treatment plans that ensure our workforce stays safe and healthy. You’ll be a key player in a multi-disciplinary project team aimed at preventing MSK injuries, so your passion and expertise will directly contribute to creating a caring culture that prioritises staff wellbeing. With regular opportunities for professional development and a commitment to making an impactful difference, this role is perfect for someone who thrives in a busy environment and is eager to lead with compassion.
At Lancashire Teaching Hospitals, we are all about enhancing our staff’s experience, and we provide the tools and support you need to excel in your role. With two main sites and a convenient shuttle service, you’ll enjoy a seamless commute while contributing to a team that places patients and staff at its heart. Your journey starts here—join us and help foster a workplace where caring is at the core of everything we do.
Are you a Physiotherapist with Occupational Health experience looking to further develop your career, with opportunities to build strategic and clinical experience and have an impact? If this sounds like you, we have a unique opportunity that is too good to miss.
Looking after the wellbeing of our workforce has never been such a high priority. The NHS has faced unprecedented challenges in the last few years, and our teams achieve amazing things every day, putting our patients at the heart of everything they do. We are just as passionate about supporting them and need you to join us to provide and further develop a rapid access physiotherapy service which is responsive to the needs of our workforce and takes a preventative approach. You will also support delivery of our broader health and wellbeing strategy, helping us develop a culture where caring compassionately for our staff is embedded in everything that we do.
MSK conditions are the second highest reason for sickness absence within our organisation. Supporting our colleagues back to work or helping them stay at work is a key priority for us.
You will, provide a proactive service for our workforce, using your clinical expertise to comprehensively assess and formulate individual treatment and management plans. This might involve functional workplace assessments and the provision of ergonomic advice. You will work closely with our core Occupational Health service to ensure that relevant advice is provided to managers to inform them about how to keep colleagues safe at work and support them through adjustments. You will be someone who thrives in a busy environment, and you will be able to independently manage your clinical caseload.
We have an ambitious programme of work around preventing MSK injury in the workplace, and you will be part of a multi-disciplinary project team, driving awareness, education and risk assessment.
Your passion and enthusiasm for your specialism will help us make a difference for our workforce. The workload is diverse, a commitment to professional development is crucial and you will also have the skills to continually evaluate the work of the team to ensure we are making impact where it counts.
About us
The service is provided at two main sites, Royal Preston Hospital and Chorley & South Ribble hospital to which the trust has a regular shuttle bus service to ease the commute.
Duties will include, but not be limited to:
- To communicate and collaborate with all Core Therapies stakeholder
- To help ensure the health, safety and security of service users, self and colleagues
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To support equality of opportunity and access to the service
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To provide and use information to support admin processes and patient care.
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To directly support the delivery of therapy to patients.
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To provide leadership and management support
For more information, please see the job description.
*Please note that the interview date may be subject to change*
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