Advanced Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job summary

2 x 0.8 WTE : 30 hrs per week

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced and highly motivated physiotherapist to develop their clinical & leadership skills within a friendly, supportive and evolving Paediatric physiotherapy team based in Staffordshire. This post offers the chance to manage a mixed caseload of children & young people with neurological, developmental and some musculoskeletal conditions, across both town and rural locations.

The team have bases acrossStaffordshire, travel will be required based on service need. As a community team covering a large geographical area, access to a car for work purposes is essential.

You will have specialist knowledge and experience in one field of Paediatric Physiotherapy. The post holder will be part of the team providing wider assessment and intervention for children & young people with physical difficulties aged 0-19 years. Clinical leadership will also be an important part of this role such as delivering clinical supervision and working on service development projects. We work in partnership with families and carers in a variety of settings including special and mainstream schools, patient's homes & community clinics.

You will be expected to use and develop your skills using a variety of approaches, treatment modalities and to work closely with colleagues in other disciplines in order to provide a child-centred, holistic approach to care. You will also participate in the development of other staff and of the service.

Main duties of the job

• To adhere to and apply the Health and Care Professions Council's (HCPC) standards of proficiency and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) Code of Members' Professional Values and Behaviour and all relevant guidance from the Partnership Trust.
• To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work.
• To assess new service user referrals and care/support needs. Assesses service users and formulates, develops, implements and evaluates programmes of treatment /care/support for individuals, families and carers and provides advice and support to others. The specialist care/support plans may include the following:

Promoting independence/self-management and maintaining safety

Increased functional ability

Improvement in physical health and wellbeing including mental health

Interventions in condition management

Management of specific diseases, diagnoses, life limiting and long term conditions.

Prevention and reducing of health inequalities

Case management/ treatment /care plans

Palliative and end of life care

• To use expert knowledge and judgement to take into account the range of care/support packages and treatment options available. To consider each service user's personal circumstances and preferences, and those of their families and carers in order to implement and adjust programmes of care and intervention.

About us

By joining Team MPFT, you will be helping your communities and in return for this, we will support you by;

• Supporting your career development and progression
• Excellent NHS Pension scheme
• Generous maternity, paternity and adoption leave
• Options for flexible working
• Up to 27 days annual leave (increasing with service up to 33 days) and the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Extensive Health and Wellbeing support and resources
• If you work in our community teams, we pay for your time travelling between patients
• Lease car if you complete more than 500 business miles per annum, fully insured and maintained (including tyres), mileage paid at lease car rate
• Salary sacrifice car - fully insured and maintained (including tyres), your gross pay is reduced by the cost of the vehicle before tax, NI and pension deductions are calculated, mileage paid at business rates
• Salary sacrifice bikes up to £2k
• Free car parking at all trust sites
• Free flu vaccinations every year
• Citizens Advice support linked with a Hardship Fund for one off additional support up to £250 (if the criteria is met)

And more. We are proud to be a diverse and inclusive organisation and there is a choice of staff networks that help you meet like-minded people.

Please note, we may be required to close this vacancy early if we receive a high volume of applications