Highly Specialist Community Paediatric Physiotherapist
Job overview
The Specialist Children’s Division is a highly experienced and Professional multi-disciplinary provision delivering Therapeutic services for children with the London borough of Enfield.
The services currently comprise of: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and language therapy, Dietetics, Complex Needs and Palliative Care Nursing and Specialist Family support. The service works closely with other disciplines within the Child Development Team and Primary Care Team (Health Visiting, School Nursing and Safe guarding services) to provide services across the borough.
The service also works closely with the Local Authority (in particular Joint service for children with Disabilities and Special Education Needs Department) including Schools in the provision of a joined up Health, Education and Social Care provision.
The Physiotherapy service is an established Musculoskeletal (0-14 years) and Neurodisability (0-19 years) service which provides specialised Physiotherapy assessment and intervention to children with varying needs in community settings, special schools, clinic and the CDC.
The band 7 physiotherapist will have a mixed caseload consisting of children of all ages.
Main duties of the job
To provide specialist assessment for children aged 0-18, who may have complex presentation, to determine relevant clinical picture and specific treatment indicated, working as an autonomous practitioner
To provide specialist advise and work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team, including Paediatricians, Orthopaedic Consultants, GPs, SLT, OT, Nurses, Social care professionals, Educational professionals and other services.
To educate families and carers regarding their child’s specific physiotherapy management including exercise programmes, targeted activities, positioning advice and physical activity recommendations.
To work closely with Wheelchair services, Orthotics department and other specialist equipment agencies, Voluntary agencies and other professional groups to ensure physiotherapy treatment is fully integrated into patient care programmes.
To be responsible for the appropriate physiotherapy treatment of an identified group of children, with a wide variety of conditions, including children with severe physical and/or cognitive impairment, some of whom may have complex social and psychological needs
To formulate individualised physiotherapy management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning skills and utilizing a wide range of specialist treatment approaches.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level.Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To have a high level of professional and clinical knowledge acquired through a recognized physiotherapy qualification leading to state registration with the Health and Care Professionals Council and developed through post graduate experience and specialist training
To comply with all trust policies and the Health and Safety at Work Act including adherence to the Universal Precautions and Infection Control measures, and to attend fire, resuscitation, child protection, manual handling and other mandatory training as required.
To keep up to date with current research and developments in practice in order to maintain a high level of evidence based practice and continued professional development in accordance with the Health and Care Professional Council guidelines.
To participate in staff appraisal scheme, taking responsibility for setting and implementing own goals within own personal development plan and to participate in regular supervision sessions with a band 7 physiotherapist from the team.
Person specification
Education/qualifications
Essential criteria- • Graduate diploma or BSc Physiotherapy
- Evidence of ongoing CPD
- HCPC registration
- CSP membership
- • Member of APCP
- Member of special interest group
- Evidence of relevant postgraduate education and/or qualifications
Personal attributes
Essential criteria- • Strong desire and passion to work within a Children’s Physiotherapy Team and share your knowledge and skills within the team. • Ability to demonstrate empathy, sensitivity and tact
Other
Desirable criteria- Car driver and own car available
Experience
Essential criteria- • Evidence of broad experience working in paediatrics including neurodevelopmental delay, complex needs and/or MSK
- Experience of working as part of an MDT
- Evidence of appraisal and supervision of junior members of staff and students
- Previous working within the NHS in the UK
- Experience
- Evidence of broad experience working in paediatrics including neurodevelopmental delay, complex needs and/or MSK
- Experience of working as part of an MDT
- Evidence of appraisal and supervision of junior members of staff and students
- Previous working within the NHS in the UK
- Some experience of managing a Paediatric MSK caseload
- Evidence of involvement in service development Application form Interview
Skills and Knowledge
Essential criteria- • Demonstrates specialist knowledge of paediatric assessment and treatment interventions in neurodevelopmental physiotherapy and/or MSK
- Demonstrates advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Able to work independently and able to manage own caseload
- Demonstrate use of evidence-based practice
- Have a sound knowledge of clinical governance and risk
- Evidence of participation in research or audit
- • Experience of hydrotherapy • Knowledge of specialist postural management equipment and orthotics