# Highly Specialised Paediatric Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-paediatric-physiotherapist/43c3165a-b9f1-43e1-acb5-2b8c652f0fca - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/highly-specialised-paediatric-physiotherapist/43c3165a-b9f1-43e1-acb5-2b8c652f0fca.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust - **Town:** London - **Region:** London - **Country:** England - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55,524 - £62,652 per annum, inclusive of HCAS (pro rata) - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Part time - 30 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-08-04T23:59:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-07-21T09:51:49.088Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Mitcham/Central_London_Community_Healthcare_NHS_Trust/Highly_Specialised_Paediatric_Physiotherapist/Highly_Specialised_Paediatric_Physiotherapist-v8143255 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8143255?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.clch.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### Job overview We are seeking a Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our Community Health Service in Merton (30 hours per week). You will deliver high-quality, responsive care to children and young people with a range of needs, including neurological, neurodevelopmental and coordination conditions, some with complex medical needs. Work will take place across clinics, mainstream schools, nurseries and children’s homes. Key responsibilities - Assess, advise and treat children and young people - Work collaboratively with multidisciplinary teams and partner services - Contribute to coordinated, child-centred care and service development About you We are looking for someone who: - Has experience working with children in community, school or similar settings - Communicates clearly and works well within a team - Is confident using IT systems and contributing to service delivery - Is committed to continuous learning and improvement Experience in leadership, mentoring, clinic coordination, service development or quality improvement is welcomed. Requirements - Qualified Physiotherapist with relevant paediatric experience - Experience working with children and young people - Evidence of ongoing professional development (neurodevelopmental training desirable) - Willingness to develop clinical, leadership and management skills - Experience with appraisal, supervision or reflective practice ### Main duties of the job - Hold responsibility for own caseload and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, while working as part of a team - Carry out specialised assessments and treatments of paediatric conditions and treatment of children with a variety of conditions. This includes continuing risk assessment, manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling requiring moderate but variable physical effort during sessions - Undertake a comprehensive assessment of paediatric patients including those with diverse or complex presentations of musculoskeletal pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition - Use highly specialised clinical reasoning skills, knowledge of evidence-based practice and paediatric clinical expertise in determining appropriate care plans using specialist treatment skills - Interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical data from assessments to form accurate diagnoses in a wide range of highly complex paediatric conditions, including interpretation of investigation results. Formulate accurate hypotheses and prognoses and recommend best course of intervention for individual treatment programmes - Provide specialist expertise for managing and treating paediatric patients with more complex neurological conditions and assist students, physiotherapists and specialist physiotherapists in achieving this ### Detailed job description and main responsibilities Successful applicants will be required to demonstrate alignment with the Trust’s values & the behaviours aligned to those values - Accountability, Inclusion, Compassion, and Empowerment, alongside fulfilling the duties detailed in the attached Job Description and Person Specification. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - Sound knowledge of clinical practice and issues relating to the delivery of Paediatric MSK Physiotherapy - Adequate knowledge of clinical pathways to facilitate appropriate referrals - Knowledge of a variety of treatment modalities - Ability to take a clinical leadership role in the community physiotherapy team. **Desirable** - Knowledge and experience of using clinical record keeping systems eg Emis/ Systm1 - Experience in service development ### Experience **Essential** - Specialist knowledge/skills/experience in paediatric physiotherapy including Children with additional needs - Substantial experience at Band 6 level including all core rotations - Knowledge and experience in the use of relevant assessment and treatment approaches and practices, including the use of standardised assessments - Evidence of effective multidisciplinary and multi-agency work - Knowledge and experience of outcome measures and implanting these to evidence positive change in service users - Experience of provision of training internally and externally - Experience in receiving supervision, appraisal, performance management - Clear understanding of the changing NHS environment - Experience in contributing to policy, procedures, guidelines and clinical standards development. - Evidence of the ability to supervise or manage Junior Staff/ Assistants/ students, including appraisal, performance management and fieldwork experience. - Experience of receiving supervision and safeguarding supervision - Recruitment and selection training and experience **Desirable** - Experience of working as a Band 7 Paediatric Physiotherapist - Experience assessing for and attending tribunal cases - Experience of service development and audit activity - Experience of working in the NHS ### Key Attributes **Essential** - Advanced skills in the assessment and treatment of Paediatric patients with a variety of conditions or complex needs. - Sound knowledge of clinical practice and issues relating to the delivery of physiotherapy. **Desirable** - Hold a full, valid, UK driving licence and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010 ### Qualifications **Essential** - Diploma or Degree in Physiotherapy - Current HCPC registration - Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy - Completed training in highly specialist clinical areas in Paediatric Physiotherapy **Desirable** - Membership of the Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists - Demonstrate evidence of interest in research at degree or masters level - Post registration management qualification - Evidence of ongoing post graduate training including clinical supervision and child protection - Evidence of training and experience in recruitment and selection, appraisal, service development ## Documents - [clch trust values (pdf, 893.7kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442507) - [functional requirements form (pdf, 439.8kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442506) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 848.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10442508) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.