Specialist Children's Physiotherapist

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The closing date is 15 February 2026

This is an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Children's Physiotherapist to join the South East Kent locality team, based at the Beacon in Folkestone.

As a Kent-wide Children's therapy service, there will be opportunities to work across the locality responding to service need and demand. The Children's therapies team in South East Kent are an outcomes focused service using a patient-reported outcome tool with children, young people and their families to understand what is important to them and what support they might need to achieve these outcomes.

You will be a part of a dynamic and innovative Children's therapies team who are committed to integrated working. Continuing Professional development and peer supervision are available for all staff.

You will have the knowledge and skills to be able to manage a caseload of complex children and provide the highly specialist assessment, advice, intervention and support for these children and their carers.

Additional training in managing the respiratory needs for the children and young people would be an advantage.

A Highly Specialist Children's Physiotherapist will be providing clinical leadership to the Physiotherapy team.

Using highly specialist knowledge and skills for Physiotherapy assessment and intervention, you will be responsible managing the flow of children through the service from integrated triage to end point of therapy maintaining a safe and effective service.

You will have the ability to lead and manage specialist clinical pathways and clinics that support these children e.g JAM, orthotics, CF.

You will inspire and support the team of Physiotherapists and therapy assistants through supervision, mentoring and living the Trust Values.

Rated ‘outstanding’ by the CQC, we’ve got a passion for delivering high standards of patient care and excellent services to improve the health of our communities. To do this we need outstanding people who share our values compassionate Aspirational Responsive Excellent.

We know a commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We pride ourselves in being diverse and welcome applications from people with varied backgrounds, perspectives and experiences.

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The data we collect helps us to ensure we are attracting diversity in our applicants, that all our colleagues have equitable access to career opportunities and supports us on our journey to being a Great Place to Work.

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you. Talk to us about a flexible working arrangement that won’t involve sacrificing time for personal interests or family commitments. We’ll support you to work flexibly in a way that will suit us both.

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Please note: at this stage, the role is open only to colleagues currently employed within Kent and Medway NHS Trusts and the Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB). Nursing vacancies are also open to Student Nurses and Newly Qualified Nurses.

As a community Trust, many of our roles require individuals to be able to drive to perform their duties. Where driving is a requirement of the role, you will be asked to confirm that you hold a full UK driving licence or a full driving licence issued by an EU country (not exchanged from a non-EU country) to proceed with your application.

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