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Monday-Friday, hours Flexible working hours between 8:30 and 7pm.
Ensure an effective and efficient provision of a quality highly specialist physiotherapy service to children and young people in a range of settings within the community and to babies on the neonatal unit & transition to community services. This includes both independent and multi-disciplinary assessment and treatment at The Child Development and Disability Service. Early Years and community settings, nurseries, mainstream and special schools as well as in clients’ homes.
The specialised physiotherapy intervention includes highly specialist paediatric assessment, diagnosis, planning and implementing treatment, equipment provision and management of children with a wide range of neuro-muscular and neuro-developmental conditions between the ages of 0-19 years.
The post holder will provide mentorship to more junior physiotherapy colleagues, therapy assistants, and student physiotherapists within the department as agreed with the Clinical Lead.
To provide highly specialist advice and guidance to colleagues within the multi-disciplinary and inter-agency setting, regarding the assessment, treatment and management of children with developmental delay, physical impairment or complex disability, as required. This includes 24-hour postural management, use of specialist equipment and aids at school and at home.
The post holder may be expected to be the lead physiotherapist for babies on the neonatal unit and in the community. This will include highly complex children primarily those with neurological disabilities and include intervention with individual children, delivering and co-ordinating Physiotherapy input to babies on the neonatal unit, advice to parents and the wider MDT, and providing specialist advice to other physiotherapists within the team.
This involves managing the daily work of the less experienced staff, physiotherapy assistants, and students within the school and co-ordinating joint working with other therapists and educational professionals.
As part of a holistic therapy team, the post holder will contribute to various universal and targeted interventions such as training of the wider workforce, drop-in clinics, specialist groups, aqua/hydrotherapy sessions.
The post holder will be responsible for keeping up to date in recent advances in the area of specialism allocated to them and play a role in disseminating information and implementing change when required throughout the team. They will contribute to service policy development as delegated by the Clinical Lead.
Requirements:
1. HCPC registration
2. 6 months NHS experience minimum
3. Right to Work in the UK
Benefits:
1. You will work 1:1 with a dedicated and experienced recruitment consultant who has exceptional market knowledge
2. Quick & easy registration.
3. On-call support team available 24 hours a day
4. Daily payroll services
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