Senior Children's Physiotherapist

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Senior Children's Physiotherapist to join the innovative and friendly Children’s Therapy team on a fixed term maternity cover contract for 1 year.

The role is based in the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire area, covering Fareham and Gosport, Portsmouth, and East Hampshire up to Bordon, with main clinics in Portsmouth, Havant and Fareham.

Qualifications

• BSc Physiotherapy degree or equivalent.
• Registered CSP member.
• HCPC Registration.
• Proven experience as a Physiotherapist.
• Experience with children with neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions.

Responsibilities

• Provide physiotherapy assessment and treatment to children in community settings.
• Work in multidisciplinary teams across colleagues in Children’s Therapy and related services.
• Support leadership and supervision within the team.

Education

BSc Physiotherapy degree or equivalent

Registered member CSP

HCPC Registration

Job description

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Children's Physiotherapist

The closing date is 12 November 2026

Do you want to be part of a large, dynamic, integrated children's therapy service? An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Senior Physiotherapist to join our innovative and friendly Children's Therapy team on a fixed term maternity cover contract for 1 year.

The role available is within the Portsmouth and South East Hampshire area covering Fareham and Gosport, Portsmouth, and East Hampshire up to the Bordon area (with main clinic bases in Portsmouth, Havant and Fareham). This is a community service delivered in children's homes, pre-school settings, Children's Centres, mainstream schools, special schools, and community clinics.

At present, the Trust is unable to offer Skilled Worker visa sponsorship for this post. Applicants must have the right to work in the UK at the time of application.

Main duties of the job

HIOWH Children's Therapy Service has an integrated model of care across Speech and Language Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Podiatry working together to provide holistic support with children and their families at the centre of what we do. We have excellent working relationships with early years services, schools, health and social care colleagues. This enables us to support children and the wider community to develop creative and innovative ways of working together to better meet the needs of both the child and their family.

We can support you to develop your clinical and leadership skills by offering:

• A friendly and supportive network of colleagues
• Clinical supervision and joint working opportunities
• Regular peer supervision with colleagues across the team.
• Professional training and update days with colleagues across the region.
• Training and development opportunities

Physiotherapists, Podiatrists, Occupational Therapists and Speech and Language Therapists work together with children and their families as part of multi-agency teams with Health Care professionals across acute and community services, Education, social care colleagues and Equipment providers, to enable children achieve their therapy goals.

About us

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust provides joined-up mental and physical healthcare for around two million people across our communities. With over 13,000 staff working in the community and local hospitals, we deliver care at every stage of life, helping people live their best and healthiest lives.

Our mental health services include community-based support and early intervention in psychosis (EIP) for both adults and young people, alongside a network of specialist inpatient wards covering forensic, learning disability, eating disorder and older person's care.

We deliver extensive physical health services too, from urgent community response teams helping frail and older patients remain safely at home, to hospitals at home teams providing acute-level care in familiar surroundings. Our neurological services offer rehabilitation and treatment for conditions including Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson's Disease, Motor Neurone Disease, Head Injury, Cerebral Palsy and Stroke. Across Hampshire, our community hospitals provide inpatient rehabilitation as a step down from acute care, and our dedicated teams also staff Treetops Sexual Assault Referral Centre in Portsmouth, offering expert, compassionate support.

Everything we do is underpinned by our CARE values of compassion, accountability, respect and excellence

Job responsibilities

Further information about the Trust and this role can be found on the Job Description and Person Specification document attached. It is important to us that we ensure our recruitment processes are accessible and inclusive to everyone - if as a potential candidate you are concerned a person specification may prevent or restrict your application for employment as a result of unintentional barriers on the grounds of your sex, race, age, sexual orientation, religion/belief or disability please initially contact the Trust's Recruitment team - detailed in the advert. The Trust will seek to resolve this issue wherever possible.

We are happy to talk Flexible Working - all requests for flexible working options can be discussed as part of the interview process.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Physiotherapy degree or equivalent
• Registered member CSP
• HCPC Registration

Experience

• Proven experience as a Physiotherapist
• Broad knowledge and experience working with children with a range of physical difficulties including neurological and neurodevelopmental
• Experience of receiving clinical supervision
• Experience of multi-disciplinary teamwork
• Experience of working in a constantly changing environment
• Demonstrates ability to be a good team member and assume leadership responsibilities
• Excellent interpersonal skills, including observation, listening and empathy skills
• Demonstrates excellent analytical and reflection skills
• Ability to work sensitively with a diverse caseload
• Efficient and dependable working practices
• Proven skills in being flexible and adaptable to meet competing priorities
• Excellent organisational skills
• Self-motivated, diplomatic, and tactful
• Ability to use a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare relative benefits
• Ability to recognise when to seek advice.
• Able to make decisions on own
• Recognises when change is needed
• Ability to keep accurate and legible notes
• Sound understanding of normal child development.
• Understand clinical governance and its implications for services including experience of quality issues and audit
• Understanding of infection control procedures
• Understanding of personal health and safety responsibilities
• An understanding of the principles of equal opportunities as it relates to staff and patients and able to demonstrate personal commitment to challenging discrimination and promoting equalities
• Experience of clinical supervision of students / therapy assistants
• Experience of developing and delivering training
• Highly developed negotiation and problem-solving skills
• Excellent training and presentation skills, both written and verbal
• In-depth knowledge of national policies and procedures (relevant to the client group)
• Well established knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools relevant to children
• Knowledge of a broad range of childrens complex disorders and disabilities
• Knowledge of trends/best practice within Childrens Physiotherapy
• Membership of relevant Special Interest Groups

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

£39,959 to £42,170 a yearPlease note for part time hours the salary will be pro rata