Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 46,000; Full time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a paediatric physiotherapist to join the Children's Physiotherapy Team in the community. You will assess babies and children, provide interventions, and refer to other providers as needed, supporting service delivery and development.

You will work within a multi-agency setting with parents and educators, keep up with clinical developments, and contribute to supervision, CPD, and peer support as part of ongoing professional practice.

Responsibilities

• 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. 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.

Job description

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.,

• 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. 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.