Band 5 Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job overview

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.

Are you a newly qualified physiotherapist? Registered with the HCPC or have applied for registration? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge?

Are you passionate about : working with children and families, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents?

If so, we are delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to join our children’s community service.

This is a community post, across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions.

The work will primarily involve a combination of working at Brays Special School and clinic based assessments, delivering intervention in the form of  Packages of Care. The post holder will work closely with the child, family and other professionals involved in their care. Candidates will also have responsibility for supervision of designated staff.

Main duties of the job

To manage a defined caseload of children with a variety of conditions. These will include children with  neurological disabilities, functional difficulties and children with neuromuscular difficulties.  To be responsible for the assessment and on-going therapeutic management of children in community and special school settings which may include designated , schools, nurseries and in community clinics. The postholder will competently assess and deliver PT programmes to children in the service and will be accountable for their own clinical work as well as to their nominated supervisor.

The postholder will carry out assessments independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. They will provide advice and guidance for families, carers and multi disciplinary team, including Health, Education and Social Care and Health staff.

The postholder will play an active part in the Physiotherapy service participating in team and service based initiatives and activities.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see JD and Person Spec for more details

To be responsible for a clinical caseload within the special school and monitor own workload/ treatment methods in order to maintain high professional standards.  To advise Professional Lead for Physiotherapist / Clinical Service Manager  of related issues as appropriate.

To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work, including the management of children on the caseload.

To assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting the information gathered to contribute to the diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan.

To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications.

Develop intervention packages to be delivered as one to one sessions either by the physiotherapist or physiotherapy assistant.

To supervise PT students on practice placement.