Specialist Acute Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job summary

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experiencedPhysiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join our Paediatric team on Padua Ward or Rainbow ward. As a multi-disciplinaryteam, we are working hard to ensure we give babies, childrenand their families the best possible care; keeping their needsfirmly at the heart of everything we do. You would beresponsible, alongside the Band 7 physiotherapist, forproviding inpatient physiotherapy to a range of childrenincluding our Cystic Fibrosis population, respiratory,orthopaedic and neurological caseload. There will also be anopportunity to work within outpatient clinic settings.

Are you a qualified physiotherapist with clinical post graduateexperience working with children, and a passion to enhancerespiratory knowledge and skills of the MDT and widerPhysiotherapy Team? If so we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job

• Provide day to day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward.
• o Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy.
• o As an autonomous practitioner to carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records.
• o To provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers.
• o To be responsible for teaching, supervision and appraisal of Junior Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the speciality.
• o To be jointly responsible for the on-going paediatric training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota.
• o To adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies.

About us

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference'. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.