Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Senior Physiotherapist - Paediatrics

The closing date is 20 November 2025

Job summary

Join our dedicated and dynamic paediatric team at King's Mill Hospital, where we care for children aged 0-19 across a wide range of specialities. This is a fantastic opportunity to work within a small, supportive team that manages all ward admissions and referrals, including:

  • Medical, Surgical, Neurodisability, Orthopaedic, Respiratory, Rehabilitation, and Repatriation cases
  • Cystic Fibrosis admissions and Induced Sputum sampling
  • Complex discharge planning and HDU bed coverage for respiratory and rehabilitation needs

We also support Maternity and NICU for children born with:

  • Positional Talipes
  • Torticollis
  • Erb's Palsy
  • Other birthing injuries or packaging disorders

Our team runs a daily outpatient caseload for Positional Talipes and plays a key role in training and education, including:

  • Medical students and staff
  • Physiotherapy and OT university students
  • Work experience placements
  • On-call staff training and competency development
  • Annual Paediatric On-call updates

Applicants must be willing to participate in the on-call rota, which includes both adult and paediatric responsibilities.

Main duties of the job

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

About us

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

Not all of our roles are eligible for visa sponsorship. To find out which roles are eligible, please refer to the shortage occupation list found here:

Skilled Worker visa: eligible healthcare and education jobs - GOV.UK

Home Office guidance has changed as of 9th April. Anyone that requires switching visa type may not be eligible for sponsorship even if the role is on the shortage occupation list.

Details

Date posted

06 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7454285

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Job description

Job responsibilities

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification.

Person Specification

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

Essential

  • Sound Clinical knowledge of core conditions and applied therapy technique
  • Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
  • Delegation skills
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
  • As an autonomous practitioner, is able to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
  • IT skills - basic
  • Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
  • Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills based on current best practice

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy or equivalent
  • Registration with HCPC
  • Membership of relevant Professional Body
  • Evidence of experience in the form of an up to date professional development portfolio

Further Training

Essential

  • Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level and relevant to all core specialities
  • Practice Placement Educators training / clinical supervisors training

Desirable

  • Leadership Training

Experience

Essential

  • NHS experience
  • Completion of junior and senior Rotational Programmes (minimum of 18 months in each), or equivalent, working in a wide variety of acute and chronic physical settings
  • Experience of working with a variety of therapeutic approaches
  • Experience of audit and service review
  • Experience of supervising other staff and students
  • Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital

Desirable

  • Ability to drive
  • Car owner
Person Specification

Knowledge and Skill Requirements

Essential

  • Sound Clinical knowledge of core conditions and applied therapy technique
  • Ability to prioritise & work under pressure
  • Delegation skills
  • Excellent communication skills (verbal & written)
  • As an autonomous practitioner, is able to work as a team member as well as alone but with access to more senior colleague
  • IT skills - basic
  • Knowledge of NHS procedures, policies and guidelines
  • Ability to formulate and develop specialised individual treatment programmes and ability in using clinical reasoning skills based on current best practice

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSc (Hons) or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy / Occupational Therapy or equivalent
  • Registration with HCPC
  • Membership of relevant Professional Body
  • Evidence of experience in the form of an up to date professional development portfolio

Further Training

Essential

  • Attendance at relevant clinical post graduate courses taught often at modular Masters level and relevant to all core specialities
  • Practice Placement Educators training / clinical supervisors training

Desirable

  • Leadership Training

Experience

Essential

  • NHS experience
  • Completion of junior and senior Rotational Programmes (minimum of 18 months in each), or equivalent, working in a wide variety of acute and chronic physical settings
  • Experience of working with a variety of therapeutic approaches
  • Experience of audit and service review
  • Experience of supervising other staff and students
  • Evidence of contribution to clinical education of less experienced staff, assistants and students

Contractual Requirements

Essential

  • Ability to travel between Kings Mill Hospital and Newark Hospital

Desirable

  • Ability to drive
  • Car owner

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

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.

Certificate of Sponsorship

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).

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer details

Employer name

Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Address

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


Employer's website

https://www.sfh-tr.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

Employer contact details

For questions about the job, contact:

Therapy Operational Manager

Karen Street

karen.street6@nhs.net

01623622515

Details

Date posted

06 November 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

214-CSTO-7454285

Job locations

King's Mill Hospital

Mansfield Road

Sutton in Ashfield

NG17 4JL


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