Community Paediatric Physiotherapist
Job summary
Are you looking for a new challenge? We are inviting applicants to join us in the Children's Physiotherapy Team to support with service delivery, providing new assessment and follow up interventions for babies and children in the community and helping us to develop our current and new services. The post holder will take a leading role in assessing and supporting the evolving identification of physical needs of children/ young people.
You may have experience in working with children in early years, with long term conditions, and MSK conditions. As a successful applicant you will have highly developed clinical decision-making skills to support children's assessment and care management. You will be confident in working in a flexible and responsive way. You will understand about effective partnership working especially with children and young people, parents and educators.
We will support you through continuing professional development, supervision, line management and peer support. We look forward to welcoming you to the team. Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
To provide, as an autonomous practitioner assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for service users and to refer on to other providers as appropriate. To work as a member of the community Physiotherapy team and to contribute to its development and function (within the post holders sphere of competence) in any setting required by the service. To develop the post holders own professional practice by keeping abreast of clinical developments and responding to available evidence. To provide consultation, advice, education and training about Paediatric Physiotherapy within the multi-agency setting in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
About us
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work.
It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people. Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
Job responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Person Specification
Qualifications · Essential
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy. Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council. Evidence of continued professional development.
Experience · Essential
Experience of planning and providing clinical care to adults or children and young people with physiotherapy needs. Experience of working in a variety of settings. Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency environment.
Knowledge and Skills · Essential
Good knowledge of physiotherapy core skills and processes. Demonstration of knowledge of child development. Awareness of recent developments in practice and research including NSFs/NICE guidelines . Previous experience of delivering programmes of care. Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people. Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and there implications for the service. Competent in the use of IT. Experience of undertaking clinical audits.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Certificate of Sponsorship
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) . From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
