Job requirements
Essential
14 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Experience
Experience of planning and providing clinical care to adults or children and young people with physiotherapy needs.
- Experience
Experience of working in a variety of settings.
- Experience
Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency environment.
- Qualifications
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Qualifications
Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Qualifications
Evidence of continued professional development.
- Knowledge and Skills
Good knowledge of physiotherapy core skills and processes.
- Knowledge and Skills
Demonstration of knowledge of child development.
- Knowledge and Skills
Awareness of recent developments in practice and research including NSFs/NICE guidelines .
- Knowledge and Skills
Previous experience of delivering programmes of care.
- Knowledge and Skills
Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
- Knowledge and Skills
Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and there implications for the service.
- Knowledge and Skills
Competent in the use of IT.
- Knowledge and Skills
Experience of undertaking clinical audits.
Desirable
Not listed in the available specification.
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge?
We are inviting applicants to join us in the Children's Physiotherapy Team to support with service delivery, providing new assessment and follow up interventions for babies and children in the community and helping us to develop our current and new services.
The post holder will take a leading role in assessing and supporting the evolving identification of physical needs of children/ young people. You may have experience in working with children in early years, with long term conditions, and MSK conditions.
As a successful applicant you will have highly developed clinical decision-making skills to support children's assessment and care management. You will be confident in working in a flexible and responsive way. You will understand about effective partnership working especially with children and young people, parents and educators.
We will support you through continuing professional development, supervision, line management and peer support.
We look forward to welcoming you to the team.
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications is received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
- To provide, as an autonomous practitioner assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for service users and to refer on to other providers as appropriate.
- To work as a member of the community Physiotherapy team and to contribute to its development and function (within the post holders sphere of competence) in any setting required by the service.
- To develop the post holders own professional practice by keeping abreast of clinical developments and responding to available evidence.
- To provide consultation, advice, education and training about Paediatric Physiotherapy within the multi-agency setting in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the Job Description and Person Specification attached for further information on the role.
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Community Paediatric Physiotherapist with Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust in Oswestry, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 per annum/pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 03 Nov 2026.
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