Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are seeking a Childrens Physiotherapist to join our passionate and experienced team, who offer service to Children and Young People (CYP) across Worcestershire. We work with Children aged 0-18 with a range of presenting difficulties, in a variety of settings including homes, nurseries, mainstream and special schools and in our clinic bases.

Our service has 3 bases across Worcestershire, in Redditch, Kidderminster and Worcester and we work very closely with our Childrens Occupational Therapy colleagues, in many cases being co located in bases.

We have a variety of roles and bandings within the service, including team leads, clinical specialists, Physio Technicians and apprentices. This enables us to offer supportive supervision, training and development opportunities.

This is a dynamic, innovative and friendly team who work in partnership with families and young people to offer high quality care. The service is moving towards implementing the balanced system and are currently following a clinical prioritisation approach. This is an exciting time of service development within the service.

Main duties of the job

To take responsibility for managing children and young people with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist assessments and treatment plans for children and young people with these presentations. This includes children with developmental delay/ learning difficulties, neurological conditions and musculoskeletal injuries.

You will be expected to develop individual treatment programmes using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and a range of treatment options.

You will work closely with your multi disciplinary and multi agency colleagues to ensure an integrated approach to patient care. This would include health, social care and education colleagues.

You will need to have a good understanding of safeguarding of children and young people.

About us

At Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust, we are working together to deliver outstanding care. We run community hospitals and community health services across Worcestershire and provide mental health and learning disability services across both Herefordshire and Worcestershire.

Our people (all 4500+ of them) provide services for people of all ages, experiencing both physical and/or mental health conditions from over 100 sites.

We will support you to thrive; offer flexible working options for a great work-life balance, help you fulfil your ambitions, and empower you to make positive changes within your team or service. Its why we were named Large Apprenticeship Employer of the Year award at the 2022 Worcestershire Apprenticeship Awards. We value diversity and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, cultures, and ethnicities.

What we offer

27 days leave plus bank holidays, increasing up to 33 days with long service

Generous NHS pension and enhanced pay when you work unsocial hours

Flexible and agile working opportunities

Great maternity, paternity, and adoption support

Wide range of staff networks such as LGBT+ and ENRICH (Equality Network for Race Inclusion and Cultural Heritage)

Health service discounts and online benefits including excellent cycle to work and car salary sacrifice schemes

Health and wellbeing opportunities

If you would like to know more, please visit our careers website.

Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Kidderminster Health Centre

Bromsgrove Street

Kidderminster

DY10 1PG

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Address

Kidderminster Health Centre

Bromsgrove Street

Kidderminster

DY10 1PG

Employer's website

https://careers.hacw.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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