Closing Date: 29/09/24 (this may change dependent on response)
Shortlisting to take place in the week following closing date: commencing 01/10/24
Interview date: 11th October 2024.
The successful candidate will have a caseload of babies, young children, and those attending mainstream schools with a wide variety of neurological, neuromuscular, and neurodegenerative conditions. The role also supports the newly developed Orthopaedic MDT clinic. You will be expected to manage a large, complex, and varied caseload of community-based patients in a variety of locations such as The Child Development Centre, homes, nurseries, and schools, and you will be required to work flexibly to meet the needs of the overall service as required.
You will update and expand on existing protocols, pathways, and guidelines for the management of conditions, in line with the best evidence available. Responsibilities include:
1. Manage and oversee the Physiotherapy mainstream service.
2. Supervise more junior members of staff and therapy assistants.
3. Hold a large and complex caseload of children and young people with neurodisabilities.
4. Participate in the Orthopaedic MDT clinic.
5. Work as part of a wider MDT.
Our People Charter outlines the behaviours we can expect from one another and what you can expect from Bradford Teaching Hospitals Foundation Trust:
1. We value people.
2. We are one team.
3. We care.
We’re keen to meet people who share these values and are passionate about delivering the highest quality of care to our patients.
Key responsibilities include:
1. Provide day-to-day line management to a team of staff.
2. Plan and coordinate caseloads and activities for a designated area, making adjustments as required.
3. Assess, develop and implement physiotherapy treatment utilizing specialist theoretical knowledge and relevant practical experience within the Paediatric Neurological service.
4. Undertake lead responsibility for the supervision, training, and appraisal of assistant practitioners, unqualified staff, peers, colleagues of specialist and physiotherapy practitioner grades, and physiotherapy students.
5. Work without direct supervision using own initiative to interpret operational policies and procedures.
6. Undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, working within the ethical framework provided by the rules of professional conduct.
7. Perform advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with complex presentations, to provide a diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
8. Be the main person initiating and coordinating changes to working practice and service delivery.
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