Senior Physiotherapist | South NHS Foundation Trust

Overview

have an exciting opportunity for a qualified physiotherapist to join our Children’s Therapy Service working in our West Lancashire Team. We are looking for enthusiastic and forward thinking Physiotherapists looking for their next challenge. This post is suitable for somebody already working as a Band 6 in paediatrics or an experienced Band 5 physiotherapist who has a real desire to learn, transfer and develop their skills in Children’s Therapy.

The Children’s Therapy Service is a community service that is commissioned for ages 0-19. We provide opportunities to develop skills and experience in four specialist pathways in MSK, Early Years, Coordination Difficulties and Long Term Conditions, all of which are driven by strong clinical leadership. We operate across a variety of community settings including special and mainstream schools, clinics, and within a home setting.

• To work as part of the Children’s Therapy Service providing physiotherapy for children referred for assessment and intervention.
• To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.
• To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.
• To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.
• To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector organizations, and parents/carers.
• To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.
• To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.
• To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.
• To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working. We believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

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