Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist


Location
Salary
£55,524 - £62,652 Outer London weighting
Profession
Physiotherapist
Grade
Band 7
Deadline
01 Nov 2026
Contract Type
Permanent
Posted Date
16 Oct 2026
Medical Protection — the side of locally employed doctors from £83

Job requirements

Essential

8 listed

Requirements the employer expects applicants to meet.

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Demonstrate high degree of expertise and competency in a wide range of skills which involves assessment and treatment underpinned by sound theoretical knowledge

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to work as an autonomous clinician, managing own caseload, including complex patients, and time, using clinical reasoning and analytical skill to perform appropriate assessment, identify problems and treatment plan

  • Knowledge and Skills

    To have the analytical ability to be able to review treatment / services, with evidence of taking part in audit

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Demonstrate awareness of the role of others in providing care and ability to work as an effective team member

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Experience of assessing for specialist equipment

  • Knowledge and Skills

    Ability to identify learning needs and develop the skill of more junior staff and students in specialty. This includes mentorship appraisal, supervision and training.

  • Education/ Qualification/ Training

    Graduate Diploma or BSC Physiotherapy or equivalent qualification recognized by HCPC • HCPC registration

  • Education/ Qualification/ Training

    Evidence of CPD

Desirable

Not listed in the available specification.

Job overview

Specialist children and young people services( SCYPs) is a busy multidisciplinary community team as part of the East London Foundation Trust, based in Stratford East London. Newham is one of the most diverse London Boroughs with one of the highest under 5-year -old population per capita. We provide a full range of community services for children and young people in East London. The Physiotherapy service for children and young people provides specialist care for under 18-year-olds with a variety of needs, including common childhood conditions of developmental, neurological or musculoskeletal nature.The specialist community children’s services comprise of Spec Community Paediatricians, community nursing team , occupational therapists , Speech and Language Therapists, Dietician and a well-established Physiotherapy team. We work closely with a network of other agencies include health visiting, school nursing and other support services for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our community Physiotherapy team deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and social care sector organisations.

We pride ourselves on ensuring we provide the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high-quality care while supporting our staff to learn and improve.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a diverse caseload in a variety of settings supporting the delivery of high-quality specialist physiotherapy services. They will take a lead role in the planning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of care, acting as an expert clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will contribute to service development, quality improvement, clinical practice and education, whilst providing clinical supervision and line management support to junior physiotherapists, support staff and students. They will work closely with the Clinical Lead and the wider multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective and evidence-based patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

Provide high quality and evidence-based physiotherapy to under 18 year olds with common and complex and developmental and long term conditions .

Leadership:

Provide clinical and managerial leadership to the physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary teams.

Research/ Audit/ QI:

Undertake and support the team to complete relevant audit, service evaluation, QI and research activity to inform development of practice and services.

Education:

To participate in and deliver local IST and education/ training to the wider MDT

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

A full job description and person specifcation is attached to this vacancy for further information and reference.

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 Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist with East London NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 Outer London weighting. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 01 Nov 2026.

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