Childrens Physiotherapist - Band 5
Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership Trust provides a full range of expanding physical, mental health and learning disability services to children, young adults, adults and older adults over many sites across Coventry, Warwickshire and Solihull.
Services are provided to a population of over one million people living in Coventry and Warwickshire and also a wider geographical area in some of our specialist services
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Job overview
Are you looking for your ideal role as a Band 5 Children's Physiotherapist?
Are you looking to be a part of a supportive and driven team?
If so, then this role may be for you!
We are in an exciting position to be able to offer an opportunity for a band 5 Physiotherapist to join our Children's Therapy team.
If you are a Physiotherapist that is dedicated to supporting children and their families to reach patient centred goals, working alongside a wide MDT including Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language therapy, Nursing, Community Paediatrics, Social Care and Voluntary organisations, then this is the post for you.
The postholder will join a dynamic, innovative and supportive service that offer a variety of areas of specialism- paediatric MSK, early years, school age, special schools, CPIP, respiratory and neonatal services to children and families across Coventry.
Main duties of the job
To effectively manage a caseload of clients with health and physiotherapy needs based on the nature, complexity and urgency of each individual case.
To plan and provide physiotherapy in consultation with other colleagues and work in a range of settings as appropriate (e.g. clients home, school, health centre).
To adopt a family centred or client centred approach to therapy, collaborating with clients (and/or carer(s) where appropriate) in all aspects of the therapy process (assessment, planning, evaluation, reporting).
To select and conduct specific specialist physiotherapy assessments, addressing the physical, needs of clients.
To respect the dignity and preferences of clients and obtain written consent to therapy in accordance with departmental and trust guidance.
To apply profession specific treatment approaches and effective clinical reasoning skills to therapy (e.g. neurodevelopmental, Bobath).
To utilise individual and/or group work skills as appropriate in order to achieve agreed therapeutic goals.
To monitor, evaluate and modify therapy using appropriate physiotherapy outcome measures to ensure effectiveness and demonstrate efficacy of therapy.
Working for our organisation
At Coventry and Warwickshire Partnership NHS Trust (CWPT), we deliver a wide range of physical, mental health, learning disability and autism services, and are proud to serve communities across Coventry, Warwickshire and beyond.
We put 'people at our heart'; this ethos is at the centre of everything we do and how we do it. We care for our staff and colleagues as much as they care for others and offer a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.
These include:
- generous annual leave entitlement which increases during your time with us
- excellent learning and development opportunities, including apprenticeship frameworks, distance learning, internal training, coaching and mentoring, and much more
- salary sacrifice schemes for lease car/ vehicle, Cycle to Work, home and electronics, gym membership and more
- discounts with a range of retailers, restaurants and entertainment venues through our Employee Assistance Programme and NHS discount schemes
- wellbeing support, including an in-house counselling service, external helpline and more
- staff networks and support group
We're always on the lookout for people who share our passion for improving the lives and wellbeing of people in our community, as well as our values of compassion, collaboration, excellence, integrity and respect.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The Job Description and Person Specification are located in the “Supporting Documentation” link to the right of the screen.
Person specification
Trust values
Essential criteria- Trust values
Qualifications
Essential criteria- Diploma/BSc (Hons) in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
Knowledge and skills
Essential criteria- Relevant clinical knowledge & applied skills
- ICT skills, & organisational skills
- Good written communication skills
Experience
Essential criteria- Experience gained on clinical placement during undergraduate training.
Other
Essential criteria- As this role requires the post holder to work in a variety of community settings, car driver is essential and a valid UK driving licence as well as insurance for business use
The Trust is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of individuals and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. As part of our safe recruitment practice, if appropriate for the role, it is mandatory requirement for all newly appointed staff to be registered with the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Update Service.
The Trust is committed to Equal Opportunities and welcomes applications regardless of age, gender, race, disability or sexual orientation. Guidance and criteria on the filtering criminal cautions and convictions can be found on the Disclosure and Barring Service website.
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