Highly Specialist Children's Physiotherapist

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Job description

Main area Children's Physiotherapy Grade Band 7

Contract: Permanent, Part time band 7 specialist Physiotherapist, team lead in community

Hours: Part time - 30 hours per week (4 days)

Job ref: 848-BHC-079-25

Employer: Bromley Healthcare

Employer type: NHS

Site: Phoenix Children's Resource Centre

Town: Bromley

Salary: Inc HCAS per annum pro rata

Closing: Today at 23:59

Highly Specialist Children's Physiotherapist

Band 7

Bromley Healthcare, a community interest company, delivers a diverse range of services encompassing community nursing (e.g., district nursing, health visiting, specialist nursing) and therapy services catering to individuals across all age groups. Stemming from the community provider unit of NHS Bromley, we boast extensive experience in serving the Bromley populace over many years.

Working at Bromley Healthcare offers a fulfilling experience. Our distinctive service delivery approach and commitment to hearing every employee's voice ensure a gratifying career journey. As a Social Enterprise, we embrace an innovative approach to healthcare delivery, combining the traditional strengths of the NHS, such as robust training and development opportunities, with the flexibility to reinvest surpluses into community initiatives.

Employees of Bromley Healthcare whose role may be at risk will receive priority consideration.

Applicants for roles involving driving responsibilities will be required to provide proof of business insurance.

Job overview

Highly Specialist Children's Physiotherapist - Band 7

Salary is dependent on experience

Part time - 30 hours per week (4 days)

Are you looking for the opportunity to work as a team lead in a children’s physiotherapy service? We have a very supportive community team, and this could be perfect for you.

We are seeking a highly motivated and enthusiastic Experienced Children’s Physiotherapist to take on the team lead role for the community caseload based in the children's resource centre.

This role will involve supporting and leading the small physio team of band 6 physios and band 4 therapy assistants working with a mixed caseload in clinic and community.

We would welcome an experienced band 6 physio looking to develop skills in a supportive and friendly environment or a band 7 physio looking to develop team lead responsibilities. You will be based in the community team at the Phoenix Children's Resource Centre in Bromley and be expected to travel to pre-schools, schools, and homes to see children in their community setting when this is most appropriate.

Interviews to be held week commencing 7th April 2025

Main duties of the job

You will be part of a dynamic, friendly physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary team, seeing children and young people with a wide variety of conditions.

You will provide a high standard of physiotherapy assessment, treatment, and advice to children and young people, carers, and families. Undertaking the lead role in the assessment, diagnosis, and formulation of physiotherapy treatment plans.

Be the physiotherapy lead within the multi-disciplinary team, providing specialist advice to other health professionals, such as child psychologists, health visitors, GPs, and social care professionals, education services, and others as necessary.

To provide supervision and education to band 6 physiotherapists (for band 7s), physiotherapy assistants, colleagues, and physiotherapy students.

To be the responsible lead for the operational delivery of a defined area/team within the service; this is a community developmental team lead role.

With more complex children, work closely with CAMHS, Wheelchair Services, Orthotics services, Specialist Equipment Agencies, Voluntary Agencies, and other providers to ensure physiotherapy treatment is fully integrated into the patients' care programmes. Work closely with referrers and specialist centres to manage children’s individual needs.

Working for our organisation

Bromley Healthcare is a community interest company providing a wide range of services including community nursing services such as district nursing, health visiting to specialist nurses, as well as therapy services for children, young people, and adults.

Being born from NHS Bromley’s community provider unit, we have been providing community services to the people of Bromley for many years, and we have a wealth of experience. Bromley Healthcare is a great place to work. The unique way we deliver services and offer everyone who works here a voice means that your career with us will be rewarding.

Social Enterprises are a fairly new and exciting way to deliver healthcare, offering many of the traditional advantages of the NHS (such as excellent training and development) with the freedom for innovation by being able to reinvest any surpluses we make into the community.

Priority consideration will be given to Bromley Healthcare staff formally identified as being at risk. Please note that for positions that require you to drive as part of your job role, we will be asking for evidence of business insurance.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To undertake highly specialist physiotherapy assessment and treatment as an autonomous practitioner and support/advise colleagues where appropriate. This includes CPIP assessments and EHCP assessments.

To assess, diagnose, and develop individual care/treatment plans for a range of paediatric conditions in conjunction with parents/carers, some of which will be highly complex or will be for patients with complex clinical, social, and emotional needs.

To be responsible for reassessing patient care as treatment progresses and altering treatment programmes as appropriate.

Be able to analyse clinical and social information from a range of sources and integrate into physiotherapy assessment and development of care/treatment plan.

To be a source of clinical expertise and advice for other physiotherapists in the team and colleagues in the acute services.

To provide specialist advice on patient care to other health, social, educational, and voluntary sector services. This may involve negotiating or requesting changes to treatment programmes/care plans set by other paediatric professionals.

To assess children for specialist equipment and recommend its purchase from health and education.

To assess children for specialist orthotics needs and recommend access to orthotics clinic as required.

To set up and adjust specialist equipment for the individual child. To train parents/carers and other agencies in the use of the equipment.

Person specification

Qualifications

• Diploma or Degree in physiotherapy recognised by HCPC.
• Registered with HCPC
• Evidence of CPD to a high level of clinical expertise in chosen paediatric area (special needs/neurodevelopmental)
• Member of APCP
• Post Graduate courses relevant to paediatric speciality: •Paediatric Bobath course Child development •Specialist courses/study on conditions that affect child development i.e. Neuromuscular conditions; congenital and orthopaedic
• •Knowledge of gait analysis and biomechanics

Information Technology

• Good keyboard skills, basic IT knowledge including PowerPoint and Word and emails
• Ability to create and provide printed programmes for children and families from available resources.
• Skills in using Excel

Experience

• Post registration experience as band 6 in the field of paediatrics.
• Working paediatric rotation plus other relevant rotations e.g. neurodevelopment, neuro rehabilitation, paediatric medicine, respiratory care, orthopaedics Junior rotational experience across a broad range of rotations.
• Experience and sound understanding of working with children’s safeguarding procedures.
• Sound understanding of the process of SEND reforms and EHC reports
• Experience of supervising and teaching junior and undergraduate physiotherapists.
• Experience of and ability to manage complaints and concerns raised.
• Experience and confidence in discussing clinical assessment with consultants and other medical professionals.
• Experience of assessing and providing specialist equipment and orthotics for children with complex needs
• Experience of delegating work to physiotherapy assistants
• Experience of supervising physiotherapy assistants
• Experience of and ability to work as part of a broad multidisciplinary team/cross organisational working
• Work in community settings delivering paediatric care

Skills

• Excellent advanced communication skills written and spoken.
• Able to deal with parents and other professionals who have anxieties and concerns
• Ability to time manage, prioritise, delegate, and organise
• Ability to provide professional/clinical leadership for assessment and analysis in specialist area of clinical field.
• Understanding of children’s equipment and orthotics.
• Understanding and skills in postural management and normal movement.
• Skills in implementing and motivating advice/treatment plans to be followed.
• Sound understanding of safeguarding principles.
• Skills in presentation to larger audiences of other professionals and agencies.
• Driving licence with access to use a car or other means of transport.
• Evidence of good teaching skills.

We are dedicated to caring for our service users and their loved ones, as well as ensuring the wellbeing of our colleagues. That's why we strongly encourage all colleagues to avail themselves of the Coronavirus vaccination.

To get a sense of what it's like to work with Bromley Healthcare, you can visit our YouTube channel at the following link: YouTube Channel.

Salary is determined by NHS experience and current banding/pay point. External applicants will begin at the entry point of the salary scale in line with NHS terms and conditions.

At Bromley Healthcare, we are fully committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive culture where all colleagues feel supported, nurtured, and celebrated. Discrimination of any protected characteristic is not tolerated. Diversity and inclusion are key components of our People Strategy, as an equal opportunities employer, we are particularly eager to enhance Black, Asian, and Minority Ethnic (BAME) representation across Bromley Healthcare, especially at senior levels.

We welcome applicants with a disability. We are able to support reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process; please let us know if you require any.

We understand the importance of balancing work and life, so we offer our staff a variety of flexible working options from day one. These include:

• Compressed hours
• Part-time
• Job shares

We encourage you to discuss this with your hiring manager, who will take your individual circumstances into account alongside the service needs.

We eagerly anticipate welcoming you to a rewarding career with Bromley Healthcare. Please note that all offers of new employment with Bromley Healthcare are subject to a six-month probationary period.

Bromley Healthcare CIC is an NHS community provider and an integral part of the NHS family. However, we pride ourselves on being different; as a co-owned social enterprise, Bromley Healthcare CIC is owned by its employees. This ensures that our staff remain under NHS Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions and are members of the NHS pension scheme (provided they are eligible). If not, we offer the Nest or Scottish Widows pension schemes.

• Please ensure you check your emails regularly, as this is our primary mode of communication throughout the recruitment process. As a general guideline, interviews typically occur within 2 weeks of the closing date.
• When providing employment reference details, please ensure you provide accurate work-related email addresses so references can be promptly sought when progressing your application. Your referees must be individuals known to you in a line manager or professional lead capacity.
• All staff identified as AT-RISK who meet the requirements of the post will be prioritized accordingly.
• The Trust utilizes the TRAC systems recruitment platform to administer all stages of the recruitment process, meaning that shortlisting information will not be communicated via NHS Jobs.
• Bromley Healthcare reserve the right to close adverts earlier than first published.

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You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name: Carolyn Kelly

Job title: Service Lead for Children's Physiotherapy

Email address: [emailprotected]

Telephone number: 07850974372

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