Band 5 Paediatric Physiotherapist

Package Description

You will feel valued as a Pediatric Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:  

• Band 5 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 
•  Free and plentiful on site-parking
•  Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
•  Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year 
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission 

Job Introduction

To work as part of the integrated therapy team to provide physiotherapy input to patients with the aim of returning them to maximum independent living, within a stimulating environment actively promoting self-management on all activities of daily living.

Work with colleagues across health, social care, education, mental health and voluntary sector to ensure holistic and joined up delivery of care.

Empower patients to make decisions about their own care and encourage them to exercise their rights and choices, signposting them to relevant community and voluntary services and supporting patients carers and assistants with management of risk.

To provide professional, specialist assessment and treatment to children and advice to carers and families referred to the Children’s Physiotherapy service.

Undertaking the lead role in the assessment, diagnosis and formulation of physiotherapy treatment plans.

To be the physiotherapy lead within the multi-disciplinary team, where appropriate, providing advice to other health professionals, education services, social services and voluntary agencies to ensure holistic and joined up delivery of care.

To ensure appropriate integrated pathways of care and communication via liaison and referral to other agencies as required.

Main Responsibilities

• Work within an integrated therapy team, working as an autonomous practitioner, carrying out single assessments, and contributing to the development and delivery of therapeutic care plans (under the guidance of senior colleagues).
• Develop programmes of therapeutic activities, weighing options and delegating aspects of care as appropriate Support patients with advice, information, persuasion and direction to community resources to encourage self-management and ongoing independence.
• Provide support, training and advice to parents, clients and carers.
• Support the work of assistants, students and volunteers to participate in a full community paediatric caseload within the therapy team.
• To manage the physiotherapy treatment of children with a wide range of conditions, including children with physical and cognitive impairments or disabilities and children with musculoskeletal conditions.
• To gain consent, assess, clinically diagnose and develop individual care/treatment plans requiring a high level of concentration for a range of paediatric conditions, some of which will be complex or will be for the patients with complex clinical, social, psychological or psychiatric needs.
• To be responsible for reassessing patient care as treatment progresses and modifying treatment plans to meet changing needs of the individual child.

Please see attached job description for a full list of responsibilities

The Ideal Candidate

• Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• Registered and compliant with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)  Member of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
• Evidence of Post graduate training/ proof of continued professional development which evidences the skills / competencies for the role.
• Excellent ability to work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of using a range of assessments and treatment methods
• Good general knowledge of normal child development and conditions that affect this.
• Knowledge, experience of Children’s Physiotherapy assessments and interventions related to working with children and an understanding of the theoretical framework underpinning these

Other requirements: Car driver with own car insured for business use

Please see attached Job Description for full Personal Specification.

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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