Job summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
Main duties of the job
Are you a B5 Physiotherapist, or current B6, looking to further your Physiotherapy career working with children? Then this may be the perfect opportunity for you!
We have an exciting B6 Physiotherapy opportunity working in Paediatrics for an enthusiastic, and motivated physio who wants to consolidate their clinical skills, by rotating through different clinical areas, whilst growing and developing their leadership and management skills.
The post holder will gain experience in multiple Paediatric Therapy specialities during 9-month rotations including in-patients, outpatients and regional clinics within Southampton Children's Hospital plus within Naomi House and Jacks place Hospice.
The successful applicant will be supported within the specialities by specialist Paediatric therapists; OTs and Physios, allowing excellent opportunity for further developing clinical and theoretical skills, in addition to participation in service development, audits and teaching.
They will work in a friendly, dynamic and proactive paediatric Therapy team over 40 wte in conjunction with the wider Therapy services department of over 300 wte physio, OT and therapy support staff.
We provide a 7-day therapy service for our Trust and therefore you need to be able to work weekends and bank holiday, on a rota basis including participating in our respiratory out of hours service (On-call) working across adults and paediatrics.
About us
Southampton Children's Hospital is one of the 10 largest children's hospitals in the UK, located within University Hospital Southampton, a large regional teaching hospital with links to the university and the Wellcome Trust research facility.
We have a vast range of Paediatric specialities, including a level 3 PICU, and being a designated Major Trauma, neurosurgical, neuro-rehabilitation and cardiac centre. The neonatal services are housed within The Princess Anne Hospital (PAH).
Bursledon House is located on the Southampton General Hospital site and is a highly specialised inpatient paediatric/psychiatric unit, providing assessment and treatment of serious chronic illness using holistic, medical and psychological models of treatment.
Naomi House and Jacks place Hospice is located offsite in Sutton Scotney, providing expert hospice-based therapeutic care to more than 550 life-limited and life-threatened children, young people and their extended families from across southern England.
The team prides itself on providing support, progression and development,with the successful post holder expected to work within our team philosophy:"We strongly believe in team working in a happy working environment. Workloads are shared and communication/ support is strongly encouraged. We are mutually responsible for the service and its development and expect everyone to carry out a certain level of responsibility.".
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHS we're committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
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Job description
Job responsibilities
This specialist B6 Physiotherapy role includes rotations within the below speciality areas:
- Respiratory care: Intensive care, high dependency, medicine and surgery
- Neurology: Acute inpatient rehabilitation, Bursledon House rehabilitation unit, neuro-oncology and neurology.
- Orthopaedics: Inpatient: trauma, elective, neuro-orthopaedics. Outpatients.
- MSK.-Largely outpatient, groups, hydrotherapy caseloads.- Neonatology: Inclusive of neonatal unit, high care, inpatients and outpatients.
- Neuromuscular: Regional clinics and outpatients- Naomi House and Jacks place Hospice: inpatients, outpatients, hydrotherapy.
The main responsibilities of this B6 Specialist Physiotherapist in Paediatrics includes:
- Working across a number of clinical areas to perform assessments; formulate treatment plans and goal setting, with a highly diverse range of paediatric pts
- Working closely with specialised MDT to allow for the seamless care of patients- Involvement in training and development, with both the therapy team, members of the MDT, patients/families and externally within the region.
- The development of professional leadership and management skills, through on the job learning, supervision, in-service training. service development supporting clinical pathways.
What we are looking for:
-An enthusiastic, dynamic, flexible, forward thinking, fun individual with excellent communication and team working skills and a desire to specialise within paediatrics.
-Flexibility to work at weekends within all fields of paediatrics and be rostered on the whole hospital Physiotherapy Respiratory On-call ( adult and paeds ) working across the intensive, high care and acute wards
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure you fulfil the criteria. For this specific specialist role, you also need the following:
Essential skills and experience needed for this specific post:
- Qualified HPCP registered Physiotherapist with a broad range of post-qualification experience which includes Paediatrics
- Proven, documented experience in doing shifts within an acute respiratory on-call service - including intensive care, in both adults and children.
- Clear expressed desire on your application to work at UHS therapy services and within paediatrics.
- It is a fast-paced environment where effective communication, prioritisation, and delegation skills are essential the post holder must be able to work under pressure, problem solve and prioritise tasks in an ever-changing workload
- Excellent communication skills: to enable close working relationships being able to adapt their communication to meet the childs, family, and MDT needs considering their age and development.
- Be physically fit and able to work with children with complex needs using different equipment and working in different positions and environments. This includes working on the floor, being water-confident in the hydrotherapy pool and therapeutically handling patients.
- Experience working in challenging and emotive situations with active coping strategies and resilience.
- Car driver, for working between hospital sites, and NH/JP Hospice.
Desirable skills needed:
- Experience as a student supervisor
Please note:
- Interviews will be held on 25th June
- Interviews will be face to face to enable specific paediatric clinical skills assessments
- We do not accept CV applications.
We welcome enquiries and are happy to answer any questions you may have, please contact Michelle.Geary@uhs.nhs.uk or phone Paediatric Therapy Dept on 023 8120 4560.
If this post is not for you and you are interested in other therapy opportunities, please e-mail: Annette.Purkis@uhs.nhs.uk
Job description
Job responsibilities
This specialist B6 Physiotherapy role includes rotations within the below speciality areas:
- Respiratory care: Intensive care, high dependency, medicine and surgery
- Neurology: Acute inpatient rehabilitation, Bursledon House rehabilitation unit, neuro-oncology and neurology.
- Orthopaedics: Inpatient: trauma, elective, neuro-orthopaedics. Outpatients.
- MSK.-Largely outpatient, groups, hydrotherapy caseloads.- Neonatology: Inclusive of neonatal unit, high care, inpatients and outpatients.
- Neuromuscular: Regional clinics and outpatients- Naomi House and Jacks place Hospice: inpatients, outpatients, hydrotherapy.
The main responsibilities of this B6 Specialist Physiotherapist in Paediatrics includes:
- Working across a number of clinical areas to perform assessments; formulate treatment plans and goal setting, with a highly diverse range of paediatric pts
- Working closely with specialised MDT to allow for the seamless care of patients- Involvement in training and development, with both the therapy team, members of the MDT, patients/families and externally within the region.
- The development of professional leadership and management skills, through on the job learning, supervision, in-service training. service development supporting clinical pathways.
What we are looking for:
-An enthusiastic, dynamic, flexible, forward thinking, fun individual with excellent communication and team working skills and a desire to specialise within paediatrics.
-Flexibility to work at weekends within all fields of paediatrics and be rostered on the whole hospital Physiotherapy Respiratory On-call ( adult and paeds ) working across the intensive, high care and acute wards
Please read the job description and person specification carefully and ensure you fulfil the criteria. For this specific specialist role, you also need the following:
Essential skills and experience needed for this specific post:
- Qualified HPCP registered Physiotherapist with a broad range of post-qualification experience which includes Paediatrics
- Proven, documented experience in doing shifts within an acute respiratory on-call service - including intensive care, in both adults and children.
- Clear expressed desire on your application to work at UHS therapy services and within paediatrics.
- It is a fast-paced environment where effective communication, prioritisation, and delegation skills are essential the post holder must be able to work under pressure, problem solve and prioritise tasks in an ever-changing workload
- Excellent communication skills: to enable close working relationships being able to adapt their communication to meet the childs, family, and MDT needs considering their age and development.
- Be physically fit and able to work with children with complex needs using different equipment and working in different positions and environments. This includes working on the floor, being water-confident in the hydrotherapy pool and therapeutically handling patients.
- Experience working in challenging and emotive situations with active coping strategies and resilience.
- Car driver, for working between hospital sites, and NH/JP Hospice.
Desirable skills needed:
- Experience as a student supervisor
Please note:
- Interviews will be held on 25th June
- Interviews will be face to face to enable specific paediatric clinical skills assessments
- We do not accept CV applications.
We welcome enquiries and are happy to answer any questions you may have, please contact Michelle.Geary@uhs.nhs.uk or phone Paediatric Therapy Dept on 023 8120 4560.
If this post is not for you and you are interested in other therapy opportunities, please e-mail: Annette.Purkis@uhs.nhs.uk
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Current HCPC registration
- Experience with a variety of physical and mental health conditions/multiple pathology
- Experience of working with support staff
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in independently managing a caseload of patients
- Previous experience within relevant clinical area
- Previous experience on-call, where relevant to clinical area
Person Specification
Trust Values
Essential
- Patient First
- Always Improving
- Working Together
Qualifications, knowledge and experience
Essential
- Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent
- Current HCPC registration
- Experience with a variety of physical and mental health conditions/multiple pathology
- Experience of working with support staff
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Evidence of continuing professional development
- Experience in independently managing a caseload of patients
- Previous experience within relevant clinical area
- Previous experience on-call, where relevant to clinical area
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
