Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

Transformation Unit; Shrewsbury; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 48,000; Part time

Job summary

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is seeking a Community Paediatric Physiotherapist to join the Children’s Physiotherapy Team in Shrewsbury. This Band 6, part‑time post (22.5 hours/week, pro rata) offers flexible working and a permanent contract with a salary range of £39,959–£48,117 per year.

You will assess and manage paediatric cases, work with families and educators, and collaborate with a multi-disciplinary team to develop services for babies and children in the community, while

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy and HCPC registration.
• Evidence of continuing professional development (CPD).
• Experience delivering clinical care to paediatric populations.
• Experience in multi-disciplinary/multi agency environments.

Responsibilities

• Provide autonomous paediatric assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions.
• Work as part of the community physiotherapy team and contribute to service development.
• Keep abreast of clinical developments and respond to available evidence.
• Deliver consultation, education and training on paediatric physiotherapy within multi-agency settings.

Skills

Autonomous practice

Paediatric physiotherapy

Multi-disciplinary collaboration

Clinical decision making

Education

Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy

HCPC registration

Evidence of CPD

Job description

Main area Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 6 Contract Permanent Hours

• Part time
• Flexible working

22.5 hours per week (Flexible working options) Job ref 825-8248930-OPS

Employer Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust Employer type NHS Site Coral House Town Shrewsbury Salary £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 03/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 23/11/2026

Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

NHS AfC: Band 6

We recognise that applicants may use Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools to help build their application. However, all information provided must be an accurate reflection of your skills, knowledge, qualifications and experience. Candidates should be prepared to discuss and evidence the content of their application during the recruitment process.

We believe that compassionate care sits at the heart of everything we do. Every member of our team — clinical or non-clinical — plays a vital role in ensuring that patients, families, and colleagues are treated with dignity, empathy, and respect at all times.

We expect all staff to demonstrate compassion not only through their words, but through their actions: by listening attentively, communicating clearly and kindly, and recognising individual needs, feelings, and circumstances of those in our care.

Effective communication is central to safe and high-quality healthcare. We value colleagues who take the time to understand others, explain information in a meaningful way, and respond to concerns with patience and understanding.

By joining our team, you are committing to uphold these values — ensuring that every patient feels heard, respected, and valued, and that compassion is embedded in every interaction, every day.

Job overview

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.

We look forward to welcoming you to the team.

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Main duties of the job

• 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.

Working for our organisation

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.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
• Evidence of continued professional development.

Experience

• Experience of planning and providing clinical care to adults or children and young people with physiotherapy needs.
• Experience of working in a variety of settings.
• Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency environment.

Knowledge and Skills

• Good knowledge of physiotherapy core skills and processes.
• Demonstration of knowledge of child development.
• Awareness of recent developments in practice and research including NSFs/NICE guidelines .
• Previous experience of delivering programmes of care.
• Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
• Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and there implications for the service.
• Competent in the use of IT.
• Experience of undertaking clinical audits.

Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all, values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicants who require this in order to have the right to work in the UK, providing that the role you have been offered meets the requirements set by the Home Office.

Applicants requiring a Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) will need to meet the salary threshold of £41,700 or the 'going rate' for the job you will be doing (whichever is higher). For a limited number of clinical posts ( listed here ), applications to the Health and Care Visa route will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the minimum salary threshold of £25,000 (whichever is higher ). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.

Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here.

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.

Application numbers

Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.

Name Sara Butler Job title Team Lead Children's Physiotherapy Team Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01952 972431 Additional information

If you are interested and would like to know more, contact Sara Butler, Team Lead Children's Physiotherapy, 01952 567300 or email [e-mail]