Band 5 Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job Summary

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can if interested. Are you a newly qualified physiotherapist? Registered with the HCPC or have applied for registration? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge? Are you passionate about working with children and families, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents?

If so, we are delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to join our children's community service. This is a community post across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions. The work will primarily involve a combination of working at Special School, Mainstream school and clinic based assessments, delivering intervention in the form of Packages of Care.

The post holder will work closely with the child, family and other professionals involved in their care. Candidates will also have responsibility for supervision of designated staff.

To manage a defined caseload of children with a variety of conditions, including neurological disabilities, functional difficulties and neuromuscular difficulties. Responsible for the assessment and ongoing therapeutic management of children in community and special school settings which may include designated schools, nurseries and community clinics. Competently assess and deliver PT programmes to children in the service and accountable for own clinical work and to nominated supervisor.

Carry out assessments independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team, provide advice and guidance for families, carers and multidisciplinary team, including Health, Education and Social Care.

We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working. Join our department at this exciting time: the Paediatric Physiotherapy service, part of Inclusion Services within the Children and Families Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We work across the whole City, within a range of community and educational settings, requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.

We value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development and welcome new ideas and experiences.

• Date posted: 15 January 2026
• Pay scheme:
  Agenda for change
• Band:
  Band 5
• Salary:
  Depending on experience
• Contract:
  
  Permanent
• Working pattern:
  Full-time
• Reference number:
  
  -CF
• Job locations:
  Wilson Stuart Special School, Perry Common Road, Erdington, Birmingham, B23 7AT

• Responsible for a clinical caseload within the special school; monitor own workload/treatment methods to maintain high professional standards.
• Advise Professional Lead for Physiotherapy / Service Clinical Manager of related issues as appropriate.
• Professionally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of children on the caseload.
• Assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting information gathered to contribute to diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan.
• Provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures, making necessary modifications.
• Develop intervention packages for one‑to‑one sessions, delivered by physiotherapist or physiotherapy assistant.
• Supervise PT students on practice placement.

• Relevant experience in a physiotherapy setting.
• Evidence of application of the PT process during practice placement in paediatrics and/or neurology and/or community.

• Passionate about working with children.
• Ability to communicate verbally in a manner appropriate to a variety of parties.
• Ability to generate written communication, relevant, concise, accurate and legible.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to the needs of individuals from minority groups.
• Knowledge of normal development and its application in assessment…