Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

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Job overview

We are looking for an enthusiastic, motivated Physiotherapist with experience in Paediatrics and who is interested in working in an Integrated Community therapy team.  
You will join an established team of Physiotherapists working in a holistic service with Children’s Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists and Community Paediatricians. 
The post provides excellent opportunities to develop your clinical and professional skills within the community setting in the Richmond Borough. The post holder will contribute to the development of the service and supervise both students and assistants working in the team.
We provide physiotherapy services to children aged 0-18 years with neuro-developmental, musculo-skeletal and developmental co-ordination disorders in pre-school, mainstream and special education settings. We use a variety of approaches including Bobath, Hydrotherapy and running interdisciplinary groups. 
The Children’s Therapy Team continually strives towards evidence based clinical practice and has comprehensive services to provide rapid access for children and families with short waiting times for assessment and treatment. 
We offer:
• Peer support from an experienced and friendly team
• Strong multi-professional team working
• Opportunities to develop specialist clinical skills in a variety of settings 
• A strong commitment to CPD and clinical effectiveness 
• A comprehensive supervision and appraisal structure

Main duties of the job

The caseload consists of children with a range of neuro-developmental  musculo-skeletal and developmental disorders in pre-school, mainstream and special education settings. 

We use a variety of approaches including Bobath, Hydrotherapy , DMI, and CIMT.  We are involved in multidisciplinary clinics including joint assessments with therapies and paediatricians, Othotics Clinic at Queen Mary's Hospital  and Orthopaedic Clinics at St. George's Hospital.  We also run several PT only and interdisciplinary therapeutic groups.

We ensure development of junior therapists and the implementation best practice standards, providing leadership, guidance and oversight  provided by our team. This includes: Under 5’s Neurodevelopmental, Over 5’s Neurodevelopmental, Special Schools and Musculoskeletal including early year’s issues such as talipes, Erbs palsies and torticollis.

Working for our organisation

The Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Team serving Richmond has remained stable for many years, underpinned by a work culture that promotes peer learning, prioritises professional development, and champions evidence-based practice, This stability is further strengthened by multidisciplary collaboration and our trust's active support, which reflects our commitment to delivering sustained, high-quiality care to the community.