Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust; Enfield; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Paediatric Physiotherapist for the Specialist Children's Division in Enfield. You will deliver specialist assessment and intervention for children with a range of conditions in community, clinics, and school settings, working autonomously within a multidisciplinary team.

You will educate families, develop individualised exercise programs, and coordinate care with paediatricians, orthopaedics, and educational professionals, ensuring

Qualifications

• Senior physiotherapist role (Band 7) within paediatric services.
• Experience with children aged 0–18 with complex needs.
• Ability to work autonomously and within a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide specialist physiotherapy assessment and treatment for 0–18 years.
• Collaborate with paediatricians, SLTs, OTs and other teams.
• Educate families on physiotherapy management and exercise plans.

Skills

Band 7 Physiotherapist

Autonomous practitioner

Multidisciplinary teamwork

Clinical reasoning

Job description

The Specialist Children's Division is a highly experienced and Professional multi-disciplinary provision delivering Therapeutic services for children with the London borough of Enfield.

The services currently comprise of: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and language therapy, Dietetics, Complex Needs and Palliative Care Nursing and Specialist Family support. The service works closely with other disciplines within the Child Development Team and Primary Care Team (Health Visiting, School Nursing and Safe guarding services) to provide services across the borough.

The service also works closely with the Local Authority (in particular Joint service for children with Disabilities and Special Education Needs Department) including Schools in the provision of a joined up Health, Education and Social Care provision.

The Physiotherapy service is an established Musculoskeletal (0-14 years) and Neurodisability (0-19 years) service which provides specialised Physiotherapy assessment and intervention to children with varying needs in community settings, special schools, clinic and the CDC.

The band 7 physiotherapist will have a mixed caseload consisting of children of all ages.

To provide specialist assessment for children aged 0-18, who may have complex presentation, to determine relevant clinical picture and specific treatment indicated, working as an autonomous practitioner

To provide specialist advise and work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team, including Paediatricians, Orthopaedic Consultants, GPs, SLT, OT, Nurses, Social care professionals, Educational professionals and other services.

To educate families and carers regarding their child's specific physiotherapy management including exercise programmes, targeted activities, positioning advice and physical activity recommendations.

To work closely with Wheelchair services, Orthotics department and other specialist equipment agencies, Voluntary agencies and other professional groups to ensure physiotherapy treatment is fully integrated into patient care programmes.

To be responsible for the appropriate physiotherapy treatment of an identified group of children, with a wide variety of conditions, including children with severe physical and/or cognitive impairment, some of whom may have complex social and psychological needs

To formulate individualised physiotherapy management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning skills and utilizing a wide range of specialist treatment approaches.

North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other IC S's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICE infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.

We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.

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To use highly specialized handling skills and manual physiotherapeutic techniques during assessment and treatment of children, some with complex disabilities and movement disorders.

To make complex decisions and appropriate judgments as a frontline practitioner to interpret situations that may require child protection action.

To work to locally and nationally agreed standards set by the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists.

To be aware of and follow NICE guidance relevant to conditions of childhood.

To assess children for a variety of highly specialist equipment and recommend its purchase by health and education. To be responsible for its safe set up, adjustment and competent use of all physiotherapy equipment by parents, carers and educational staff.

To demonstrate a sound understanding of risk management and to undertake risk assessments involved in the manual handling of the children during physiotherapy management.