Children's Physiotherapist - Special Schools and Early Years

Job summary

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To provide highly specialist physiotherapy intervention to Children and young people (CYP) 0-19 within the borough of Greenwich, and act as a resource for their families and carers across all settings.

This specialist role will be to support CYP with complex needs who attend Specialist RBG School Settings (Primary and Secondary provision).

The post holder will also provide assessment and intervention to support children within the early year's team. This will include assessment and advice via the monthly 'Drop in' clinics; follow up of children that require on-going physiotherapy care and support to multi-disciplinary discharges in to the community.

This post has team lead responsibilities for physiotherapy in Early Years. This will include service / operational management, and reporting to the Band 8a Early Years Service Lead.

To liaise closely with other services and agencies to provide a smooth coordinated service based on best practice.

To assist with service development and provide information on issues pertaining to specialist area on a regular basis.

To provide training and advice for families and carers across all settings on issues pertaining to Children's Physiotherapy.

Main duties of the job

Be responsible to facilitate routine and urgent new patient clinics and appointments.

Autonomously manage a complex early years and special schools caseload simultaneously.

To be able to identify clinical need for specialist onward referrals (ie orthopaedics, neurology, spinal team).

To carry out postural management assessments and CPIPS assessments.

To effectively carry out standardised outcome measures (ie general movements, HINE) and integrate these into comprehensive care plans.

Fully support junior members of staff which is inclusive of supervision and teaching.

Liaise with wider MDT and tertiary centres.

Integrate within the special school wider MDT and staff to support CYP.

About us

Oxleas offers a wide range of NHS healthcare services to people in community and secure environment settings. Our services include community health care such as district nursing and speech and language therapy, care for people with learning disabilities and mental health care such as psychiatry, nursing and therapies. Our multidisciplinary teams look after people of all ages and we work in close partnership with other parts of the NHS, local councils and the voluntary sector and through our new provider collaboratives. Our 4,300 members of staff work in many different settings including hospitals, clinics, prisons, secure hospitals, children's centres, schools and people's homes.We have over 125 sites in a variety of locations in the South of England. In London we operate within the Boroughs of Bexley, Bromley Greenwich and into Kent. We manage hospital sites including Queen Mary's Hospital, Sidcup and Memorial Hospital, Woolwich, as well as the Bracton Centre, our medium secure unit for people with mental health needs. We are the largest NHS provider of prison health services providing healthcare to prisons within Devon, Dorset, Bristol, Wiltshire and Gloucestershire, Kent and South London. We are proud of the care we provide and our people.

Our purpose is to improve lives by providing the best possible care to our patients and their families. This is strengthened by our new values:

• We're Kind
• We're Fair
• We Listen
• We Care

Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Goldie Leigh

Lodge Hill

Abbey Wood

SE2 0AY

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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Employer details

Employer name

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Goldie Leigh

Lodge Hill

Abbey Wood

SE2 0AY

Employer's website

http://oxleas.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)

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