Bank Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

Please note that as this is a bank role, it does not meet the salary requirements for work visa sponsorship and as such we will be unable to progress your application if you do not have the right to work in the UK.

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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, MSK, or with respiratory 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 and line management and peer support.

We look forward to welcoming you to the team!

Job description

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

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

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
• Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.

Experience

Essential

• 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

Essential

• 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.

About the employer

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.