Children’s Community Physiotherapist

Job summary

An exciting 'community only' opportunity has arisen to join the fabulous Children's Physiotherapy Team at Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic band 5 Physiotherapist with a keen interest of working with children or a band 6 Physiotherapist with experience of working with children.

We provide specialist assessments and interventions to enable babies, children and young people (CYP) with physical difficulties to reach their potential. We work with children and young people in the community who have neurological, developmental, musculoskeletal and Orthopaedic conditions who may also have complex long-term medical needs. Focus is on maximising the CYP's physical ability within their everyday activities at home and in education settings, preparing them for independence and transition to adult life.

You need to be a confident, autonomous practitioner with high level communication skills, a flexible problem-solving approach, good clinical reasoning skills, and be efficient in your time and people management.

Within the community role we have the ability to offer opportunities for experience in early years, Paediatric MSK, and Paediatric Orthopaedic work including adjuncts such as serial casting and Ponseti intervention.

Please note this role is community based so you are not expected to work in the paediatric inpatient setting or on the on call roster.

Main duties of the job

We are a great supportive team who provide specialist physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment of children and young people and work Monday to Friday in the community.

You will be able to develop you skills and knowledgewith an extremely rewarding caseload in the community and make a real difference to a child's progress and care.

You will get the opportunity to work with an array of specialist therapy colleagues and broaden your experience of multi-disciplinary working. As a therapist working within our team, you will have the opportunity to not only learn alongside your colleagues, but have regular supervision, as well as being able to attend a robust, informative and interactive in-service training programme.

If you think this is something that interests you, then please get in touch with us.

About us

The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust is one of the largest NHS trusts in the West Midlands providing primary, acute and community services and we are incredibly proud of the diversity of both our staff and the communities we serve. We are building a workforce that can help us to fulfil our values, improve quality of care for patients, and solve the health care problems of tomorrow. We're passionate about the value that diversity of thinking and lived experience brings in enabling us to become a learning organisation and leader in delivering compassionate care for our patients.

We are delighted that we have been rated as "Good" by CQC. We have achievednumerous awards; The Nursing Times Best Diversity and Inclusion Practice and Best UK Employer of the Year for Nursing Staff in 2020.

The Trust is a supportive working environment committed to creating flexible working arrangements that suit your needs and as such will consider all requests from applicants who wish to work flexibly.