Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job overview

Are you a physiotherapist looking to develop your skills within the Paediatric setting and lead the Under 5’s team?

The Hounslow Paediatric Physiotherapy team is seeking an experienced Band 7 Physiotherapists in order to help support staff working in the under 5’s stream, to ensure the continuation of service development, creation and implementation of clinical care pathways and to support the development of more Junior Physiotherapists within the team.

The Under 5’s physiotherapy stream is an integral part of the Children’s Physiotherapy Team which, in turn, is part of the Children’s Therapy Service, which includes Speech and Language Therapy and Occupational Therapy.

Our team provides a comprehensive service profile to a varied and diverse population within the community, including nurseries/schools and clinics. Our team specialises in the treatment and management of children who have neurodevelopmental, neuromuscular and childhood musculoskeletal conditions.

Main duties of the job

disabilities, challenging behaviours, severe learning disabilities and musculo-skeletal conditions.

This role focuses on the Under 5’s stream, however, you may have the opportunity to work in other streams, in line with service needs and priorities.

We adopt a number of specialist clinical approaches in order to support our clients including Bobath, Posture Management pathways and the assessment and provision of specialist equipment and orthotics, as well as using a number of well recognised assessment tools including: General Movement/Prechtl, Movement ABC, BOT 2, Peabody, GMFCS, GMFM, Mymop, Chailey, The Oxford Assessment of Disability.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The Candidate Pack provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. Please view as attached

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.