Job summary
- Main area
- Respiratory Paediatric physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 344-1491WCY
- Employer
- East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- William Harvey Hospital
- Town
- Ashford
- Salary
- £43,742 - £50,056 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Acute Paediatric Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen in the Women’s and Children’s Care Group who have a strong commitment to delivering safe services to children and young people.
This is a new post for a Paediatric Physiotherapist to establish a paediatric inpatient service, where you will join a small team of passionate MDT clinicians who work across Paediatric Inpatients, to provide a high standard of physiotherapy to inpatients at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate and the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford.
Main duties of the job
- To provide specialist assessment, treatment, and goal setting of patients. There will be a respiratory bias, but the caseload will span orthopaedics and neurology. Some patients may have complex and/or chronic presentations. To determine clinical diagnosis and Physiotherapy treatment indicated. To maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
- You will develop highly-specialist skills under the guidance of the senior staff.
- To provide clinical cross cover within your team as delegated by your Clinical Team Lead.
- To attend clinical level discussions / meetings relating to your area of work as delegated by your Clinical Team Lead.
- To communicate effectively with patients and carers routine and potentially complex, sensitive, or distressing information; in order to provide patient centred care, to encourage self-management, maximise rehabilitation potential, and to ensure understanding of the condition. Patients may have communication, perceptual or cognitive/understanding difficulties.
Working for our organisation
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.
Applications for this role should be written by the applicant. If artificial intelligence (AI) programmes are used then the application may be rejected due to this document being an important part of the assessment process. This does not prevent applicants seeking appropriate support with applications should they need to for the purposes of any declared disability.
Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
• Provide day to day operational management of the Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward.
• Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy.
• As an autonomous practitioner to carry out advanced assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics and Neonates who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records.
• To provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers.
• 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.
• To be responsible for the planning, implementation and evaluation of paediatric respiratory on-call competencies throughout the trust. Provide on-going training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota.
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.
Person specification
Qualifications and experience
Essential criteria
- BSC Physiotherapy
- Minimum 2 years Paediatric experience (acute/ community) at minimal Band 6
Desirable criteria
- Significant and relevant post graduation education in paediatric PT
- Experience in Service set up/ development within MDT
Professional Registration
Essential criteria
- Member of HCPC
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Emma Cave
- Job title
- Neonatal AHP Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01233 616204
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