Employer: East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: William Harvey and QEQM Hospitals
Town: Ashford
Salary: £37,338 - £44,962 pro rata per annum
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/01/2025 23:59
Specialist Acute Paediatric Physiotherapist
Band 6
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join our Paediatric team on Padua/Rainbow ward. As a multi-disciplinary team, we are working hard to ensure we give babies, children, and their families the best possible care; keeping their needs firmly at the heart of everything we do. With a respiratory bias, you would be responsible, alongside the Band 7 physiotherapist, for providing inpatient physiotherapy to a range of children including our Cystic Fibrosis population and also input to an orthopaedic and neurological caseload. There will also be an opportunity to work within outpatient clinic settings. Are you a qualified physiotherapist with clinical postgraduate experience working with children, and a passion to enhance respiratory knowledge and skills of the MDT and wider Physiotherapy Team? If so, we would love to hear from you. Main Duties of the Job
Provide day-to-day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver, and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward. Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team-based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy. As an autonomous practitioner, carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and maintain records. Provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers. Be responsible for teaching, supervision, and appraisal of Junior Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the specialty. Be jointly responsible for the ongoing paediatric training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota. Adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies. Working for Our Organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected, and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families, and carers we care for every day. Person Specification
Qualification and Registration
BSC Physiotherapy HPCP registered Member of Paediatric Special Interest Group Experience
Experience of working in paediatric PT at Band 5 or 6 level Experience working in paediatrics across acute and community settings Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above. We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications. If you have any difficulty with this, please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help. The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer-facing roles. Most positions require a Disclosure and Barring check and will be exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Posts working regularly or unsupervised with children or vulnerable adults require an enhanced check. We operate a no-smoking policy on all our sites and grounds. You can search for and apply for roles directly on our website. If you are applying via NHS Jobs your application will be sent to our recruitment system TRAC. All subsequent information will be generated from TRAC so you won’t be able to see the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs and we won’t be able to respond to e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to us transferring your application and details to our system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records. Good luck with your application, we’ll contact you via email so please check your junk/spam folders.
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Band 6
Job Overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join our Paediatric team on Padua/Rainbow ward. As a multi-disciplinary team, we are working hard to ensure we give babies, children, and their families the best possible care; keeping their needs firmly at the heart of everything we do. With a respiratory bias, you would be responsible, alongside the Band 7 physiotherapist, for providing inpatient physiotherapy to a range of children including our Cystic Fibrosis population and also input to an orthopaedic and neurological caseload. There will also be an opportunity to work within outpatient clinic settings. Are you a qualified physiotherapist with clinical postgraduate experience working with children, and a passion to enhance respiratory knowledge and skills of the MDT and wider Physiotherapy Team? If so, we would love to hear from you. Main Duties of the Job
Provide day-to-day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver, and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward. Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team-based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy. As an autonomous practitioner, carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentations, and determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and maintain records. Provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers. Be responsible for teaching, supervision, and appraisal of Junior Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the specialty. Be jointly responsible for the ongoing paediatric training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota. Adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies. Working for Our Organisation
We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected, and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families, and carers we care for every day. Person Specification
Qualification and Registration
BSC Physiotherapy HPCP registered Member of Paediatric Special Interest Group Experience
Experience of working in paediatric PT at Band 5 or 6 level Experience working in paediatrics across acute and community settings Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above. We’ll close this job advert once we’ve received sufficient applications which may be before the closing date so please apply as soon as possible. We only accept online applications. If you have any difficulty with this, please contact our Resourcing Team on 01227 866450 who are happy to help. The ability to converse easily and provide advice in accurate spoken English is essential for all customer-facing roles. Most positions require a Disclosure and Barring check and will be exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. Posts working regularly or unsupervised with children or vulnerable adults require an enhanced check. We operate a no-smoking policy on all our sites and grounds. You can search for and apply for roles directly on our website. If you are applying via NHS Jobs your application will be sent to our recruitment system TRAC. All subsequent information will be generated from TRAC so you won’t be able to see the progress of your application or receive messages through NHS Jobs and we won’t be able to respond to e-mails sent to us via the NHS Jobs website. By applying for this post you are agreeing to us transferring your application and details to our system. If you are offered a job, information will also be transferred into the NHS Electronic Staff Records. Good luck with your application, we’ll contact you via email so please check your junk/spam folders.
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