Children’s Physiotherapist - Developmental

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust; Wolverhampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity to join the Children’s Physiotherapy Team at The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. We are looking for enthusiastic band 5 or band 6 Physiotherapists to provide specialist assessments and interventions for children with physical difficulties. You will work in the community, helping children reach their potential, and have opportunities for diverse experiences in paediatric physiotherapy.

Benefits

Supportive team environment

Flexible working arrangements

Regular supervision and training

Qualifications

• Confident, autonomous practitioner.
• Experience working with children.
• Ability to participate in respiratory on-call rota.

Responsibilities

• Identify, plan and provide specialist assessment and treatment.
• Maximise children's physical ability in everyday activities.
• Participate in out of hours services and multi-disciplinary working.

Skills

Communication skills

Problem-solving

Clinical reasoning

Job description

An exciting 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.

Our team provide specialist assessments and a range of interventions to enable babies, children and young people 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. The focus is on maximising the child and young person's physical ability within their everyday activities at home and in education settings, preparing them for independence and transition to adult life.

Your role will be identifying, planning and providing specialist assessment and treatment and making a difference to a young persons progress and care. 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.

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

We are a great supportive team who provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and young people and participate in the out of hours services. We also work in Paediatric inpatient areas as required.

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.

Applicants are required to participate in the respiratory on-call rota and support is provided to maintain competencies.

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.

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 achieved numerous 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.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Kelly Leonard Job title: Clinical Lead Children's Service Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 01902 446290