Children and Young People’s Physiotherapy Team Lead

Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust; Catford; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 63,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the UK is seeking a Children and Young People’s Physiotherapy Team Lead. The role involves leading a dedicated team to provide physiotherapy for children and young people, ensuring high-quality, evidence-based service delivery. Candidates should possess extensive experience and relevant qualifications in physiotherapy, along with strong leadership and organizational skills. A passionate and motivated individual is needed to drive improvements in service provision.

Qualifications

• Extensive clinical experience working with children and young people.
• Deep understanding of current legislation relating to children and young people.
• Experience in managing clinical performance and team dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Children and Young People's Physiotherapy Team.
• Deliver advanced physiotherapy assessment and intervention.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to improve local provision.

Skills

Clinical experience in physiotherapy

Team leadership

Communication skills

Organizational skills

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Master's degree in Paediatric Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Job description

Children and Young People’s Physiotherapy Team Lead

Join our dynamic Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Team!

Are you ready to take on an exciting opportunity to lead a friendly and dynamic team? We are on the lookout for a highly experienced, passionate, and self-motivated senior physiotherapist to lead our comprehensive community physiotherapy service for children and young people (0 to 19) referred to our specialist service.

Based at the Children and Young People's Centre -- Kaleidoscope in Catford, we provide physiotherapy for the diverse population of Lewisham. You will be in charge of clinical and operational leadership, ensuring our service is high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective, aligning with national and local children's service agendas.

In Lewisham, we emphasise a strong multidisciplinary and co-produced approach to working with children and young people. You will support and promote this, collaborating closely with other service leads and service users to enhance our local provision.

Our team of 13 physiotherapists is committed to peer support and continuous professional development. The role offers you the chance to further develop your own clinical, organisational, and managerial skills.

We are looking for someone highly specialised, passionate, organised, innovative, and dedicated to working in a motivated team environment. Are you ready to make a difference?

Main duties of the job

To provide clinical and operational leadership for the Children and Young People's Physiotherapy Team ensuring service delivery aligns with the service specification, is evidenced based, value for money and in line with the national and local agenda for Children's Services.

To advise the directorate senior leadership team of service needs, demand and capacity, trends and influencing factors and proposing options for resolution.

To deliver advanced physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and consultation for children and young people with complex acquired and developmental disabilities and social needs.

To take a delegated lead working with the Associate General Manager and Head of Children and Young People's Therapies to support the development and implementation of effective business, clinical and corporate plans as required by the service to ensure a child focused service is delivered.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on the role.

About us

Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

Job responsibilities

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further information about the role.

Person Specification

Qualifications and Training

• Degree in Physiotherapy
• Master's degree in Paediatric Physiotherapy or other relevant area or evidence of post graduate training at Master's level
• HCPC registration
• Membership of CSP and APCP
• Recognised advanced assessment / diagnosis / treatment postgraduate diploma / certificate in areas addressing needs relating to a wide range of clinical conditions and disabilities to e.g. neuro-developmental therapy, sensory integration, postural management,
• Research training
• Leadership training
• MAES therapy training

Experience

• Extensive proven clinical experience in physiotherapy working with CYP with a range of clinical conditions and disabilities at an advanced level
• Extensive experience working within community focused services for children and young people
• Experience and skills in managing staff including, supervision, recruitment, performance management, sickness and annual leave
• Critical evaluation of clinical areas e.g. outcome measures, assessments, audit, quality improvement
• Experience of service development
• Experience working with data, spreadsheets and monitoring team performance.
• Working with a child-centred approach; working collaboratively with the child, their family, other professionals and agencies
• Experience in training others
• Exposure to strategic and political issues affecting clinical care/service delivery are
• Preparing and delivering presentations to a range of stakeholders
• Experience in carrying out risk assessments

Knowledge and skills

• In depth advanced knowledge of child development and its relationship to the development of physical performance through childhood and adolescence
• Advanced knowledge of the impact of specific developmental disabilities on the development of the child or young person's physical performance and overall wellbeing
• To have knowledge of current national legislation and initiatives relating to CYP across health, education and social care and be able to implement this within the physiotherapy Service.
• An understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services
• Understanding of the impact of local cultural, linguistic and demographic factors which influence service provision
• Excellent organisation and communication skills
• Ability to lead and motivate a team
• Current knowledge of the effective neuro-developmental, neuromuscular, orthopaedic and physiotherapy practice research
• IT skills and data skills

Qualities

• Able to motivate, teach and empower CYP, families, staff and to advocate for CYP
• Collaborative working
• Conflict management, negotiation and problem solving

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.

Kaleidoscope Centre for Children and Young People

Interim AGM - Community CYP Specialist Services

£55,690 to £62,682 a yearper annum plus HCAS

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

197-RF7480

Job locations

Kaleidoscope Centre for Children and Young People