Advanced Clinical Practitioner Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job overview

We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy Practitioner (ACP) or Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (banding depending on experience) in Paediatric Orthopaedics to join our established multidisciplinary team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner to work at an advanced level of practice, playing a key role in the assessment and management of children and young people with orthopaedic presentations.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will independently lead advanced practice clinics, triage and manage referrals, request and interpret investigations, and make advanced clinical decisions within agreed protocols. You will work closely with a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon from University Hospital Southampton and the wider MDT, contributing to high-quality, patient centred care and service development.

This role is ideal for an experienced clinician with strong clinical reasoning skills, confidence working autonomously, and a commitment to collaborative multidisciplinary working.

Post details:

• Fixed term for 9 months (maternity leave cover)
• 11.25 hours per week / 0.3 WTE
• Based within Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery

Informal visits or discussions are encouraged.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within the elective paediatric orthopaedic service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.

To triage and assess babies, children and young people referred for consideration of orthopaedic surgery.

To provide clinical leadership to the ACP & ECP team and work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the team across the directorate.

To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating, and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.

To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.

Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the AP paediatric orthopaedic service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.

To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.

To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.