Specialist Physiotherapist - Paediatrics
South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
We have an opportunity for a full-time, permanent Band 6 Specialist Physiotherapist in our Children's Physiotherapy Team. You will join our well-established Children's Physiotherapy service which supports children aged 0-19 years and will work in providing support to the Children's Physiotherapy department and community settings across Sunderland and South Tyneside. You will be a key part of our service and will have the opportunity to develop your clinical and leadership skills. You will be predominantly based at our Sunderland site located within the Children's Centre, providing care across both Sunderland and South Tyneside areas. As a team, we work together to provide the best service we can whilst striving to develop staff who are our key asset to improve patient outcomes. You will have excellent support and be part of a wider Children's Integrated Therapy Service team too. You will be keen to support services as we change and develop. You will align to our vision and values to improve patient outcomes and develop our workforce.
Main duties of the job
You will be based within part of our Children's Physiotherapy team that covers South Tyneside and Sunderland. You will be integral in developing the service to and providing support into the Physiotherapy department, all community settings including schools. You will be responsible for a wide and varied caseload. You will have knowledge and experience within paediatrics including from all musculoskeletal conditions/presentations to babies and children with complex presentations. You will have knowledge of Paediatric assessment tools and the Bobath approach. You will have some experience of the Education Health and Care Plans (Children and Families Act 2014), have been involved with report writing and associated meetings. You will have experience and a working knowledge of safeguarding. You will have knowledge and understanding of CPIPs and have the ability to work within a Physiotherapy team and the wider MDT. This is an excellent opportunity to work in a large team across our patch with other specialist clinicians. You will participate in and be integral to the clinical supervision, training, and education of all staff, including students. You will be required to meet the travel requirements of this post.
Job responsibilities
To work as a highly specialist physiotherapist using advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide trust-wide physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and advice to a varied caseload of clients including those who present with musculoskeletal and complex neurological conditions. Practice will incorporate collaborative working with and guiding junior physiotherapy staff.
To begin to develop expert skills in the specific area in order to take a lead role in clinical practice issues raising the profile of the service and offering specialist advice to planning and service development teams in order to assist in the implementation of service improvements.
To offer a pathway for the specialty management of complex paediatric cases by facilitating timely and appropriate intervention.
To work towards improving clinical standards including implementing evidence-based practice.
To maintain professional development through participation in relevant professional training programmes.
Person Specification
Skills and Knowledge
* Demonstrate skills in specialist assessment, diagnosis and development of care plans, where clients have highly complex needs.
* To be able to communicate highly complex and sensitive condition-related information to clients/carers, multidisciplinary team members, other professionals often in the face of hostility and/or antagonism.
* Specific skills as follows:
* Good interpersonal and communication skills including proven organisational and planning skills.
* Ability to influence, motivate and facilitate development in others.
* Time management and prioritisation skills.
* Evidence of leadership skills as well as ability to be a successful team member.
* A good level of skill in complex information processing of information/facts that require analysis, interpretation and where a comparison of a range of options at a service and clinical level is necessary.
* Skilled in contributing successfully to clinical teams for development of client care.
* Able to introduce innovative practice impacting on policy/service beyond own area of activity/Organisation.
* Developed negotiation & problem-solving skills within complex situations, & ability to facilitate these skills in others.
* Ability to assimilate, synthesise & present complex information/facts that require analysis, interpretation, and comparison of a range of options at a service & clinical level.
Experience
* Experience within Paediatric Physiotherapy incorporating experience within a range of specialisms within Paediatric Physiotherapy.
* Awareness of the range of relevant standardised formal and informal assessments and therapy approaches for client groups within this specialist service area.
* Experience of supervising all levels of qualified Physiotherapy staff, assistants and students.
* Experience in designing and delivering training and education programmes to other professionals/students/parents.
* Training and experience in staff and student supervision.
* Some management/leadership experience.
* Experience in the use of and interpretation of the relevant standardised formal and informal assessments and therapy approaches for client groups within this specialist service area.
* Some experience of policy/practice development in the specialist area.
Qualifications
* Evidence of extensive CPD and up to date knowledge within Paediatrics achieved through post-graduate specialist advanced short courses.
* Registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
* Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapists.
* Knowledge of some specialist assessment tools relevant to Paediatric Physiotherapy.
* Knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic assessments and interventions & an ability to compare & contrast relative benefits.
* Knowledge of the structure and functioning of the NHS, and how the trust fits into the wider picture.
* Knowledge of the principles of clinical governance/audit/research.
* Understanding of the roles of other professionals & the principles of partnership-working with key stakeholders.
* Knowledge of standards of record keeping and ability to monitor and audit this in own team.
* Member of APCP or other Paediatric SIG.
* Knowledge of national and local policies & procedures relevant to and areas of responsibility.
* Attendance at management and leadership training to include and not exhaustive of short courses on a range of management and HR issues.
Physical Skills
* Ability to motivate staff and sustain developments.
* Ability to sustain prolonged positions and the physical demands of the role.
* Ability and knowledge of the moving and handling requirements of the role.
* Ability to sustain intense concentration on a frequent basis in all aspects of Service & Client Management.
* Requirement for speed and accuracy with keyboard skills.
* Ability to carry out the travel demands of the job between sites and within the community.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
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