Job requirements
Essential
28 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Governance
Follow trust policies on governance to ensure high quality of service is delivered
- Other Requirements
Flexibility
- Other Requirements
Able to work as a team member
- Other Requirements
Empathetic
- Other Requirements
Reliable
- Other Requirements
Good communication skills.
- Other Requirements
Well developed communication skills - empathy, negotiation, and motivation, presenting of complex facts in an understandable way, re-assurance, and support particularly to anxious people
- Other Requirements
Good understanding of roles with Multidisciplinary Team
- Other Requirements
Respect for other professionals within the team.
- Qualifications and training
BSc, MSc or Diploma in Physiotherapy.
- Qualifications and training
HCPC registration.
- Qualifications and training
Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio
- Clinical skills and experience
Experience as a Band 5 Physiotherapist or equivalent.
- Clinical skills and experience
Experience of paediatrics at Band 5 or Band 6 level and to be able to further develop skills in paediatrics.
- Clinical skills and experience
Delivering education/ in-service training programmes.
- Clinical skills and experience
Experience in formal developmental assessment
- Clinical skills and experience
Proven experience of effective teamwork as part of a physiotherapy team and/or multi-disciplinary team.
- Clinical skills and experience
Working knowledge of a range of medical and surgical conditions.
- Clinical skills and experience
Remain updated with professional practice and new research.
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Competent IT skills.
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Presentation skills
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Able to maintain judgment under pressure.
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession.
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Ability to organise, prioritise workload and delegate appropriately
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Able to keep accurate and legible patient records
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety and meet differing needs of the patients.
- Personal/Professional Attributes
Able to cope working in a stressful environment and with emotional or aggressive patients and carers
Desirable
12 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Governance
An understanding of Clinical Governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit.
- Other Requirements
Knowledge and experience in handling different cultures and religious beliefs education and development
- Other Requirements
Evidence of student supervision
- Qualifications and training
Member of Special Interest Group or Branch.
- Qualifications and training
Postgraduate training in paediatrics.
- Qualifications and training
Training in PDR and staff appraisal
- Qualifications and training
Experience of research.
- Qualifications and training
Clinical educator training in respect of undergraduate students.
- Clinical skills and experience
Working in the acute and community setting.
- Clinical skills and experience
Knowledge of the workings of community physiotherapy services and experience of working with GP practices and referrals.
- Clinical skills and experience
Involvement in audit, research and understanding quality issues and implementing change as a result.
- Clinical skills and experience
Previous experience of supervision and clinical education of more junior therapy staff
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join our Paediatric team on Rainbow/ Padua ward. As a multi-disciplinary team, we are working hard to ensure we give babies, children and their families the best possible care; keeping their needs firmly at the heart of everything we do. With a respiratory bias, you would be responsible, alongside the Band 7 physiotherapist, for providing inpatient physiotherapy to a range of children including our complex needs and Cystic Fibrosis population and also input to an orthopaedic and neurological caseload. There will also be an opportunity to work within outpatient clinic settings.
Main duties of the job
- Provide a day to day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either QEQM/ WHH Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward.
- Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team-based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy.
- As an autonomous practitioner to carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records.
- To provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers.
- To be responsible for teaching, supervision and appraisal of Junior Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the speciality.
- To be jointly responsible for the on-going paediatric training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota.
- To adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- Please see full JD and PS
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 Specialist Acute Paediatric Physiotherapist with East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust in Canterbury, England. It is listed as a Band 6 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £39,959 - £48,117 pa pro rata. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 04 Nov 2026.
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