Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapists are responsible for delivering high-quality, evidence-based physiotherapy services to children and young people with a wide range of conditions. This role involves working autonomously, assessing, diagnosing, and treating children with physical disabilities, developmental delays, and complex conditions, working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team in community and acute settings. The post holder is required to provide inpatient respiratory provision.
You will manage a defined caseload, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate and record outcomes.
You will also contribute to the development of the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service as well as clinically support students on placement and junior staff members.
This permanent post consists of 9-month rotations, across Heartlands, Goodhope, and Solihull hospital sites and Solihull Community. This post is based at our Heartlands site, however, as the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis because of development or reorganisation of Trust services.
Applicants will be required to participate in the departmental respiratory adult and paediatric overnight on-call system and 7 day working rota within the adult and paediatric respiratory therapy teams.
Main duties of the job To exercise professional autonomy, assimilating and analysing complex information and interpretation of data, to implement treatment or management strategies. Integration of evidence-based practice through advanced clinical reasoning and decision making. To evaluate clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate this into physiotherapy assessment and treatment. To undertake risk assessment of lone working and aspects of treatment and safety in the work environment. Demonstrate a high degree of specialist paediatric expertise in therapeutic handling and positioning, communicating complex and sensitive information appropriately for patients and carers regarding expectations and realistic goals. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation to gain informed consent, including from patients experiencing adversity. Responsibly discuss child protection concerns with parents/carers, reporting to the appropriate agency. To work in accordance with the CSP and HCPC rules of Professional Conduct. To provide specialist advice on patient care to other health, social, education, and voluntary sector services. To advise the Clinical Leader of Physiotherapy of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to patient care, health and safety. Prompt recording and reporting of incidents/accidents/near misses. To maintain contemporaneous documentation and communicate results appropriately in reports and letters.
About us We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description Job responsibilities *Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification Qualifications Essential BSc Physiotherapy, Diploma or Grad. Dip Physiotherapy, MCSP, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
Desirable Membership of Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP)
Experience Essential Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including recent post graduate courses relevant to paediatric physiotherapy e.g. musculoskeletal, neurological, orthopaedics. Evidence of IT skills. A range of suitable post graduate registration experience in an acute and/or community setting. Student placements or qualified clinical work to have provided a broad range of experience in respiratory, neurological conditions. Experience of working with or being with children. Strong interest in the field of paediatric physiotherapy. Experience in the supervision of student physiotherapists and assistants. Ability to use in depth clinical skills to systematically diagnose/assess patient/client problem. To understand and evaluate complex situations and information to formulate an appropriate course of action. The ability to frequently modify the planned activity to suit the need of the individual. Working knowledge of Government initiatives, NSF's etc. Able to work collaboratively with physiotherapy colleagues, multidisciplinary team [e.g. doctors, OT's, other allied health professionals, relatives, carers, Education and Social Services and voluntary staff. Able to demonstrate persuasive, motivational, negotiating skills when dealing with highly sensitive information. Patients may have barriers to understanding e.g. children, those with a learning disability, hearing/speech or language problem.
Desirable Relevant acute and community experience Recent paediatric caseload Recent working in Primary Care setting and/or acute setting Able to meet the travel requirements of the community elements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is preferred you possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points.
Additional Criteria Essential Able to provide individual, highly specialized programmes of therapy/care/advice contributing to the diagnosis, care and education of clients and carers. Record accurately agreed goals and outcome measures. Demonstrate enthusiasm and a desire to achieve. Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within physiotherapy. Demonstrate a professional attitude. Able to take a team leader role in the absence of more senior staff.
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Trustwide Mindelsohn Way Birmingham West Midlands B15 2TH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
304-9005434
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You will manage a defined caseload, using evidence based / client centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate and record outcomes.
You will also contribute to the development of the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service as well as clinically support students on placement and junior staff members.
This permanent post consists of 9-month rotations, across Heartlands, Goodhope, and Solihull hospital sites and Solihull Community. This post is based at our Heartlands site, however, as the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis because of development or reorganisation of Trust services.
Applicants will be required to participate in the departmental respiratory adult and paediatric overnight on-call system and 7 day working rota within the adult and paediatric respiratory therapy teams.
Main duties of the job To exercise professional autonomy, assimilating and analysing complex information and interpretation of data, to implement treatment or management strategies. Integration of evidence-based practice through advanced clinical reasoning and decision making. To evaluate clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate this into physiotherapy assessment and treatment. To undertake risk assessment of lone working and aspects of treatment and safety in the work environment. Demonstrate a high degree of specialist paediatric expertise in therapeutic handling and positioning, communicating complex and sensitive information appropriately for patients and carers regarding expectations and realistic goals. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation, explanation to gain informed consent, including from patients experiencing adversity. Responsibly discuss child protection concerns with parents/carers, reporting to the appropriate agency. To work in accordance with the CSP and HCPC rules of Professional Conduct. To provide specialist advice on patient care to other health, social, education, and voluntary sector services. To advise the Clinical Leader of Physiotherapy of any circumstances which give cause for concern in relation to patient care, health and safety. Prompt recording and reporting of incidents/accidents/near misses. To maintain contemporaneous documentation and communicate results appropriately in reports and letters.
About us We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.
Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to: Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can. Offering our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.
UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.
University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.
Job description Job responsibilities *Please Note: For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*
Person Specification Qualifications Essential BSc Physiotherapy, Diploma or Grad. Dip Physiotherapy, MCSP, Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) registration
Desirable Membership of Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists (APCP)
Experience Essential Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including recent post graduate courses relevant to paediatric physiotherapy e.g. musculoskeletal, neurological, orthopaedics. Evidence of IT skills. A range of suitable post graduate registration experience in an acute and/or community setting. Student placements or qualified clinical work to have provided a broad range of experience in respiratory, neurological conditions. Experience of working with or being with children. Strong interest in the field of paediatric physiotherapy. Experience in the supervision of student physiotherapists and assistants. Ability to use in depth clinical skills to systematically diagnose/assess patient/client problem. To understand and evaluate complex situations and information to formulate an appropriate course of action. The ability to frequently modify the planned activity to suit the need of the individual. Working knowledge of Government initiatives, NSF's etc. Able to work collaboratively with physiotherapy colleagues, multidisciplinary team [e.g. doctors, OT's, other allied health professionals, relatives, carers, Education and Social Services and voluntary staff. Able to demonstrate persuasive, motivational, negotiating skills when dealing with highly sensitive information. Patients may have barriers to understanding e.g. children, those with a learning disability, hearing/speech or language problem.
Desirable Relevant acute and community experience Recent paediatric caseload Recent working in Primary Care setting and/or acute setting Able to meet the travel requirements of the community elements of the post and be independently mobile and as such it is preferred you possess a full category B car driving licence preferably clean or with no more than a maximum of 3 points.
Additional Criteria Essential Able to provide individual, highly specialized programmes of therapy/care/advice contributing to the diagnosis, care and education of clients and carers. Record accurately agreed goals and outcome measures. Demonstrate enthusiasm and a desire to achieve. Demonstrate an interest in developing expertise within physiotherapy. Demonstrate a professional attitude. Able to take a team leader role in the absence of more senior staff.
Employer details Employer name University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Address Trustwide Mindelsohn Way Birmingham West Midlands B15 2TH
Any attachments will be accessible after you click to apply.
304-9005434
#J-18808-Ljbffr
