Main area: Paediatrics
Grade Band: 7
Contract: Fixed term: 12 months (Will require some on-call weekend working)
Hours: Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Job ref: 320-CDCS-3493
Employer: University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type: NHS
Site: Children's Hospital, Royal Derby Hospital
Town: Derby
Salary: £46,148 - £52,809 pro rata pa
Salary period: Yearly
Closing: 05/03/2025 23:59
Interview date: 19/03/2025
Clinical Specialist - Paediatrics
Band 7
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
With over 13,000 members of staff, you can expect huge variety and new opportunities every day! Our staff go above and beyond and take pride in caring for our patients.
University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust is fully committed to promoting inclusion, equality, diversity and human rights in employment and delivery of its services. The Trust is committed to providing an environment where all employees, patients, carers and visitors experience equality of opportunity by means of understanding and appreciating the value of diversity.
As a Trust, we promote an inclusive environment and welcome applications from a diverse pool of talent and backgrounds. All individuals are valued and given every opportunity to succeed based on merit.
The Trust actively encourages applications from members of our Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic communities. These groups are under-represented in our organisation, and it’s important to us that our workforce reflects the diversity of our communities as much as possible.
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Here’s more about the role and what we’re looking for;
Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work within the Paediatric Therapy team at Derbyshire Children's hospital.
We are seeking a good team player to join our small but friendly therapy team to cover a maternity leave. Fixed term or secondment basis.
We are looking for someone who has an interest in paediatric neurodevelopment and neurological rehabilitation, but also has a breadth of paediatric experience.
Applicants should possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning and treatment skills, specific to the management of those with complex neurological needs.
You will support with the management of less experienced staff and higher educational students, you may need to deputise for the Band 7 Team Lead as required and take initiative for service development.
The successful applicant will be responsible for a caseload of outpatients with delayed development and gross motor skills difficulties. The role also entails provision of outpatient and inpatient neurorehabilitation.
The inpatient caseload involves management of children and young people with acute neurological conditions. You will need to be effective at multidisciplinary and interagency working, to support transfer of care from specialist centres and to help coordinate post-discharge transition to the community services.
The successful applicant will be expected to be part of the weekend and bank holiday working roster which involves the management of children with respiratory and orthopaedic conditions.
Main duties of the job
To lead, plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the physiotherapy service provided to neurological and neurodevelopmental patients in the acute trust on a day to day basis.
1. To act as a highly specialist autonomous clinician with advanced, theoretical and practical knowledge and skills providing a very high standard of effective, safe, timely, evidence-based education and care for patients with a variety of complex Neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions.
2. To be responsible for the specialist education, training and supervision of less experienced staff, undergraduate students, medical, nursing and AHP staff within the team.
3. To work in partnership with healthcare providers in Primary and Secondary Care as well as wider social and educational agencies to facilitate transition of patients with neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions to community services.
4. To lead and participate in audit, service development and service evaluation, and promote an ongoing culture of change and improvement within the service.
Closing date of applications: 5 March 2025
Date of interview: 19 March 2025
Working for our organisation
As a trusted organisation at the heart of our communities, we recognise the important role we can play in supporting the public, patients, our own people and local partners in achieving the best of health for the local population and the communities in which they live by providing Exceptional Care Together.
Our fundamental Values of Compassion, Openness and Excellence underpin how we intend to work as a Trust and the associated behaviours are becoming embedded in all aspects of how we work.
In return we will offer:
* Development opportunities, both professional and leadership development.
* On-going support from recruitment to when you join our team and beyond.
* Staff benefits including employee assistance programme, discounted gym membership, onsite fitness classes, car schemes.
Key Facts:
* We see on average 4810 OP appointments a day.
* We are the 4th busiest Trauma & Orthopaedic outpatients department in England – an average of 2077 per week.
* An average of 1115 patients are seen in A&Es across our network every day – 3rd largest in the country.
* Our hospitals admit an average of 195 emergency patients daily.
* Last year we undertook almost 33,700 planned surgical operations in our 57 operating theatres.
* We are one of only 7 Trusts nationally with more than 50 operating theatres.
* We carry out more than 140 elective procedures each working day.
* UHDB is a research active University Hospital with a large and varied portfolio of clinical trials and research opportunities for all staff.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To act as an autonomous and highly specialised paediatric physiotherapist with responsibility for the management of a variable caseload including those with complex neurological needs.
To provide a very high level of neurological care to patients with complex neurological needs, on admission to acute wards covering all neurological pathologies, in order to improve their quality of life and facilitate early hospital discharge in line with current guidelines and policies.
To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
To act as lead neurological physiotherapist for patients within the Children’s Hospital acute services, presenting with highly complex health, rehabilitation and social care needs.
To coordinate appropriate, timely and efficient delivery of multi-disciplinary services from partnership agencies, through direct communication/onward referral and organisation of case conferences.
To provide highly skilled training/support and supervision for undergraduate physiotherapy students, facilitating the development of a clinically effective workforce and to promote the Trust as a potential employer.
Identify and implement innovative ways of working within the speciality. Promote and develop the use of evidence-based practice to improve the outcomes of patient care.
To participate in the on-call rota, for provision of respiratory and orthopaedic care to patients on rostered weekends.
To be responsible for inducting and teaching student physiotherapists to graduate level on physiotherapeutic skills and knowledge within paediatric neurological care, assessing and evaluating performance against university set criteria.
To provide specialist neurological/neurodevelopmental teaching to higher education institutions as required.
Provide support, guidance, clinical education and teaching to more junior staff. Assess and evaluate their competence, performance assessment and appraisal.
Be actively involved in professional clinical groups, such as CSP Clinical Interest Groups, Peer Review Groups and other professional development activities across the region.
To participate in the departmental appraisal scheme as an appraiser and appraisee and be responsible for complying with agreed personal development plan to meet the required knowledge and skills.
Be a visible point of contact for patients, visitors, relatives, and staff, acting as a resource for problems and able to clearly present the patients’ clients’ points of view to others. Receive and investigate any complaints received.
Lead the development of the specialist service and act as a change agent. Whilst encouraging others to be innovative and adaptable in their approach to change.
Promote the health and safety of patients, staff and the public by taking responsibility within their working environment(s) for identifying risks/hazards and implementing control measures.
If you are applying for an Internal Secondment, please ensure you have spoken to your line manager and have their support prior to your application. Please speak to the Recruitment Team if you have any questions.
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* Evidence of working in a neuro developmental paediatric setting.
* Training within the field of neurodevelopment e.g. Bobath.
Communication
* Has communicated to a variety of audiences showing they are able to adapt their style as the situation dictates.
* Able to establish working relationships with health, education and social providers.
* Has used a variety of methods to ensure optimal outcomes in sensitive situations in difficult circumstances.
Clinical Skills
* Evidence of high level of assessment and treatment skills in children with neurodevelopmental conditions.
* Evidence of respiratory experience.
* Utilising the range of resources to help clinical decision making.
* Use of the MDT to help guide the management of patients.
* On-call competencies.
People Management
* Student educator.
* Evidence of supervising less experienced staff.
* Evidence of recognising and managing poor performance.
* Trained appraiser.
* Evidence of leading a team/service.
* Evidence of leading a team through a change process.
Our Trust aims to provide the highest quality care to patients within Derbyshire and South East Staffordshire and we want the very best people to work with us.
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IMPORTANT INFORMATION
If we receive a high number of applications for this position we reserve the right to withdraw the post before the closing date, therefore it is advisable that you apply as early as possible to avoid disappointment.
At UHDB, we offer different ways to work flexibly to each and every one of our colleagues, many of whom already work flexibly at all sites of the Trust.
For our roles we are open to discussing the possibility of part-time/reduced hours/compressed hours/flexible start and finish times/fixed/flexible shifts/annualised hours/term time hours/hybrid working – working partly in the trust/partly at home.
Why don’t you talk to us at interview about the flexibility you would like to explore and what it means to you, and we will discuss what’s possible for the job and team, and the opportunities we might be able to create together.
We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but we do promise to work with you to look at all the available options.
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Name: Justine Williams
Job title: Operational Therapy Lead - Paediatrics
Email address: justine.williams1@nhs.net
Telephone number: 07585966144
Additional information:
* Jo Coates
* Clinical Lead and Respiratory Paediatric Physiotherapist
* Debora Howson
* Clinical Specialist Paediatrics - Neurodevelopment
Tel Number: 01332 785539
Email: joanna.coates@nhs.net
debora.howson@nhs.net
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