The Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust

Senior Physiotherapist

The closing date is 14 July 2025

Job summary

We have a great opportunity to join our well established and celebrated childrens therapy team. We are a friendly and welcoming team who are forward thinking and open to innovation and change.

Children's physiotherapy sits within the wider "Children's Therapy" which is an integrated team of occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech and language therapists. This team works closely together to benefit the needs of the children and families in Wakefield District.

We strive for continued improvement and achieving the trust vision of achieving an excellent patient experience each and every time. This position is permanent and full time within the Childrens MSK Physiotherapy Team.

We support our staff through a recently developed competency package, as well as effective and thorough supervision and appraisal process. We are a childrens service based within Pinderfields General Hospital and Pontefract General Infirmary.

The successful candidate will take on a varied MSK, orthopaedic and rheumatology caseload of children between the ages of 0-17 years. Groups which run across site include lower limb group, hydrotherapy and pilates.

The successful candidate will be involved in running the groups, depending upon their experience and job plan. Assessment and intervention are completed predominantly in an outpatient setting.

All staff work closely within the childrens multidisciplinary team, linking with all professionals around the child.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist physiotherapeutic assessment and management of Paediatric patients with diverse paediatric MSK presentations and complex physical symptoms.

To provide physiotherapy for children with wide ranging MSK presentations in the hospital setting.

Provide effective holistic and age-appropriate physiotherapy treatment of children in a suitable environment and hold a patient caseload.

Providing acute respiratory and orthopaedic ward cover at PGH where cover is required within normal working hours.

The specialist clinician will collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team (MDT) to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individual treatment programme for their patients.

To provide leadership and support to junior therapy colleagues in the assessment and management of MSK Paediatric conditions.

To provide peer support, supervision and second opinions to members of the wider Paediatric team.

To provide clinical education of physiotherapy students on placement.

Be proactive in self-development and demonstrating initiative in promoting innovative approach to service development.

Maintain own professional development and demonstrate high standards of clinical performance and professional practice

To undertake a management role where appropriate in the clinical setting, where overseeing, planning and implementing objectives for more junior staff is necessary.

About us

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, car lease and 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

27 June 2025

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 6

Salary

£38,682 to £46,580 a year

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Full-time

Reference number

000431

Job locations

Pinderfields Hospital

Aberford Road

Wakefield

West Yorkshire

WF14DG

Job description

Job responsibilities

Graduate Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent

Registered with the HCPC

Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.

Portfolio evidence of information learning

Job description

Job responsibilities

Graduate Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent

Registered with the HCPC

Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio, including attendance at recent and relevant postgraduate courses.

Portfolio evidence of information learning

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

Please click 'apply now' to view the full person specification (there is no obligation to submit an application)

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.