Children's Physiotherapy Clinical Lead

Overview

Are you a highly experienced and compassionate Childrens Physiotherapist ready to take the next step in your career? We're looking for a motivated Band 7 Childrens Physiotherapist to lead our mainstream service at The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust. The post is a permanent part-time role of 30 hours per week.

At Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust, we are dedicated to delivering outstanding care to children and families. Our multidisciplinary team (MDT) works collaboratively to provide person-centred care that makes a real difference.

We are seeking someone who is highly motivated, passionate and offers expert knowledge within this clinical area to join our childrens physiotherapy team and continue delivering exceptional services.

• Provide detailed expert assessments for children, leading to clinical diagnosis of neurological, neuro-developmental, respiratory, and orthopaedic conditions.
• Provide effective holistic and age-appropriate physiotherapy treatment of children in a suitable environment and hold a patient caseload.
• Have a key role in facilitating a child s maximum physical potential and support inclusion into education and leisure activities.
• Advise, train and educate parents, carers and other professionals from health, education, social services and voluntary services involved in the management of the child.
• Develop key working relationships with service users, families and wider MDT and implement this in both health and educational settings.
• Lead by example demonstrating advanced clinical skills and collaborative working and be accessible to the team to share this knowledge.
• Provide flexible response to managing service demand.
• Participate and co-ordinate the evaluation of all aspects of the mainstream service and wider childrens physiotherapy team. Provide clinical leadership of the childrens mainstream service including service planning and monitoring, and effective collaborative working with other health, social and education colleagues.
• Take the lead role for management of the clinical area. Support team leader with operational duties and non-clinical roles when required.
• Support other team members by providing clinical and non-clinical supervision and appraisals for Band 6s, 5s and support.

We are an acute trust caring for over one million people in Wakefield and Kirklees. Our 10,000 staff members work in patients homes, the community, and our three hospitals in Pontefract, Dewsbury, and Pinderfields (Wakefield).

Committed to continuous improvement, we prioritise our people and values so we can deliver excellent patient experience. Our team is friendly, passionate and always seeking better ways to work through research and innovation.

We support work-life balance and foster a diverse, inclusive environment where everyone belongs. Our staff networks offer safe spaces for honest conversations and to share ideas, thoughts and concerns so we can increase awareness and appreciation of equality, diversity, and inclusion.

As a member of the team, you will have access to the NHS pension plan, a generous holiday allowance, employee health and wellbeing services and extensive benefits and support. These include onsite nurseries, childcare vouchers, home electronics schemes, working carers support, carer-friendly policies, and more.

If you value caring, high standards, improvement, and respect, join the MY team to make a difference every day.

Date posted: 12 March 2026

Pay scheme:
Agenda for change

Band:
Band 7

Salary: £47,810 to £54,710 a year

Contract:

Permanent

Working pattern:
Part-time

Reference number: 001138

Job locations:
Trust-wide, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG

• Physiotherapy degree or equivalent qualification.
• HCPC relevant registration.
• Experience of and keen interest in leading a team.
• Extensive experience of working within a children s physiotherapy team.
• Evidence of relevant ongoing professional and clinical development.
• Understanding of SEND and Education, Health and Care Plans and legislation for health within this area.

• Essential:
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Disclosure and Barring Service Check:
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Trust-wide, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG