Job summary
This exciting role offers the opportunity to make a real difference to children and families by providing highly specialist paediatric neurological physiotherapy within University Hospitals Birmingham. You will deliver expert assessment and treatment for children with a wide range of neurological conditions, working closely with a supportive multidisciplinary team, including neonatal colleagues, as well as partnering with wider community services to ensure truly holistic care.
As a recognised specialist, you will help shape and advance paediatric neurological practice by contributing to the development, planning, and delivery of intervention programmes and specialist training. You will also offer valued clinical guidance to clinicians, managers, healthcare professionals, and external partners.
In your position as Paediatric Outpatient Neurological Lead, you will drive the neonatal pathway and lead, coordinate, and evaluate our outpatient therapy service. Your role will involve engaging in clinical audit, championing evidence-based practice, supporting or initiating research, and inspiring the next generation through the supervision and development of staff and students.
Based primarily at the Heartlands site, you will also have the opportunity to work across other UHB locations, helping to shape a high-quality, compassionate service for children across the region.
Main duties of the job
The role centres on delivering expert physiotherapy care to children with neurological needs, ensuring thorough assessment and thoughtful, effective treatment. You will work closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team and maintain strong links with community services to create a seamless, family-centred approach to care. As the lead for paediatric outpatient neurology, you will guide the development and progression of the neonatal pathway while overseeing the coordination and quality of the outpatient therapy service. The post involves shaping clinical practice through ongoing service evaluation, participation in research and audits, and the promotion of evidence-based approaches. You will also play a key part in developing others by providing supervision, support, and professional guidance to staff and students. Although mainly based at the Heartlands site, you will contribute to paediatric services across other UHB locations when needed.
About us
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust strives to have an inclusive culture where everyone feels like they belong, can thrive, knows that they add value and feels valued. We do this by developing compassionate and culturally competent leaders, being values driven in all that we do and by creating a welcoming and inclusive workplace that thrives on the diversity of our people. As such we want to attract and recruit talented individuals from all backgrounds, and for each of you to feel supported for the diversity you bring, to achieve your full potential. For those staff with a disability, including physical disability, long term health condition, mental health or neurodiverse condition, this also means being committed to making reasonable adjustments needed for you to carry out your role.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description
Job description
Job responsibilities
Please note for a specific detailed job description for this vacancy please see attached job description
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education including English language and mathematics, A levels or equivalent Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with HCPC as a Physiotherapist Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area
Desirable
- Leadership training
- Postgraduate advanced accredited training within specialist area
- Registered member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
- Registered member of Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists
Experience
Essential
- Relevant postgraduate experience in specialist areas relevant to the post Experience of NHS based work
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including recent courses relevant to Neurological physiotherapy
- Evidence of IT skills
- A range of suitable experience of working within a Primary Care setting and/or acute Neurological outpatient paediatric setting
- Ability to use Neurological clinical skills to systematically diagnose/assess patient/client problems
- To understand and evaluate complex situations and information to formulate an appropriate course of action. Ability to frequently modify planned activity to suit individual needs
- Experience of paediatric Neurological physiotherapy with management of complex patients
- Experience of effective staff management and leadership
- Experience of managing students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels
- Experience of training staff groups at all levels
- Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multidisciplinary teams and across agencies
- Experience of conducting or being involved in audit, implementing outcome measures and/or research in the specialist area
Desirable
- Experience of providing Neurological physiotherapy care within a paediatric physiotherapy service
- Considerable experience of NHS work
- Working knowledge of Government initiatives, National Service Frameworks (NSFs) etc.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Good standard of general education including English language and mathematics, A levels or equivalent Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registered with HCPC as a Physiotherapist Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area
Desirable
- Leadership training
- Postgraduate advanced accredited training within specialist area
- Registered member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists
- Registered member of Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists
Experience
Essential
- Relevant postgraduate experience in specialist areas relevant to the post Experience of NHS based work
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including recent courses relevant to Neurological physiotherapy
- Evidence of IT skills
- A range of suitable experience of working within a Primary Care setting and/or acute Neurological outpatient paediatric setting
- Ability to use Neurological clinical skills to systematically diagnose/assess patient/client problems
- To understand and evaluate complex situations and information to formulate an appropriate course of action. Ability to frequently modify planned activity to suit individual needs
- Experience of paediatric Neurological physiotherapy with management of complex patients
- Experience of effective staff management and leadership
- Experience of managing students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels
- Experience of training staff groups at all levels
- Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multidisciplinary teams and across agencies
- Experience of conducting or being involved in audit, implementing outcome measures and/or research in the specialist area
Desirable
- Experience of providing Neurological physiotherapy care within a paediatric physiotherapy service
- Considerable experience of NHS work
- Working knowledge of Government initiatives, National Service Frameworks (NSFs) etc.
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
