Children’s Community Physiotherapist

Somerset NHS Charity; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a dynamic Children's Physiotherapy Team at a leading NHS Trust in Wolverhampton. This role offers a chance to work with children facing physical challenges, providing essential assessments and interventions in a community setting. As a Physiotherapist, you will develop your skills and make a significant impact on children's lives. The Trust is committed to diversity and flexible working arrangements, ensuring a supportive environment for all staff.

Benefits

Flexible Working

Supportive Working Environment

Qualifications

• Experience working with children.
• Completed core NHS rotations/placements.
• NHS experience in assessment & treatment of paediatrics.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, and treatment.
• Work in the community with children and young people.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary teams.

Skills

Communication

Problem Solving

Time Management

Education

Degree/Masters in Physiotherapy

Job description

An exciting 'community only' opportunity has arisen to join the fabulous Children’s Physiotherapy Team at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic band 5 Physiotherapist with a keen interest of working with children or a band 6 Physiotherapist with experience of working with children.

We provide specialist assessments and interventions to enable babies, children and young people (CYP) with physical difficulties to reach their potential. We work with children and young people in the community who have neurological, developmental, musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic conditions who may also have complex long-term medical needs. Focus is on maximising the CYP's physical ability within their everyday activities at home and in education settings, preparing them for independence and transition to adult life.

You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management.

Within the community role we have the ability to offer opportunities for experience in early years, Paediatric MSK, and Paediatric Orthopaedic work including adjuncts such as serial casting and Ponseti intervention.

Please note this role is community based so you are not expected to work in the paediatric inpatient setting or on the on call roster.

Main duties of the job

We are a great supportive team who provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and young people and work Monday to Friday in the community.

You will be able to develop you skills and knowledge with an extremely rewarding caseload in the community and make a real difference to a child's progress and care.

You will get the opportunity to work with an array of specialist therapy colleagues and broaden your experience of multi-disciplinary working. As a therapist working within our team, you will have the opportunity to not only learn alongside your colleagues, but have regular supervision, as well as being able to attend a robust, informative and interactive in-service training programme.

If you think this is something that interests you, then please get in touch with us.

Working for our organisation

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We’re passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as “Good” by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To see full list of duties and main responsibilities, please refer to the full job description attached to the vacancy on the Trust website.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree/Masters in Physiotherapy

Experience

• Working with children
• Completed core NHS rotations / placements
• Evidence of team work / leadership

Specialist knowledge

• NHS experience in assessment & treatment of paediatrics

Car User

• Current UK Driving License with access to a vehicle

Flexible Working - As a major employer in the Black Country and West Birmingham region we are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance. We want the Black Country and West Birmingham region to be the best place to work and as such will consider all requests to work flexibly taking into account personal and individual circumstances alongside the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the Recruiting Manager as part of the on-boarding process.

Qualifications - Please be advised that if the post that you are applying for requires any level of qualification (e.g. A-Levels, Degree etc) or Professional Registration (e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council, General Medical Council etc) you will be required to provide proof as part of the pre-employment process. By submitting your application you are giving the Trust permission to check the qualification certificates provided back to the source provider. Please note that a sample of all applicant’s qualifications will be checked with the educational institution or provider. Furthermore, a sample of all applicants’ qualifications will be checked back to the educational institution or provider to interview letters to further deter fraud.

Sponsorship - Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. As of 1 January 2021, free movement ended and the UK introduced a points-based immigration system. Further information is available regarding two types of visa; Health Care Visa https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/your-job and Skilled worker visa https://www.gov.uk/skilled-worker-visa .

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.