Advanced Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy Practitioner

NHS Jobs; Poole; On-site; GBP 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks an Advanced Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy Practitioner to lead rapid assessment, diagnostics and treatment in elective paediatric orthopaedics. You will triage babies and children, provide clinical leadership, and manage complete episodes of care with consultants to ensure timely, effective outcomes.

The role requires Masters level theory and extensive paediatric orthopaedic experience, with a focus on evidence-based

Qualifications

• Masters level theory and experience underpin advanced practice in paediatric physiotherapy.
• Ability to diagnose, triage and manage complex paediatric orthopaedic presentations.
• Leadership within a multi-professional ACP/ECP team.

Responsibilities

• Lead the ACP & ECP team to determine workload priorities.
• Plan and manage complete episodes of care in collaboration with consultants.
• Develop and deliver specialist education for individuals and groups.
• Promote service redesign and policy development aligned with best practice.

Skills

Clinical leadership

Autonomous practice

Triage and assessment

Education

Masters degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

Advanced Clinical Paediatric Physiotherapy Practitioner

To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within the elective paediatric orthopaedic service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses. To triage and assess babies, children and young people referred for consideration of orthopaedic surgery. To provide clinical leadership to the ACP & ECP team and work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the team across the directorate. To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating, and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice. To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow. Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the AP paediatric orthopaedic service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks. To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust. To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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