Senior Physiotherapist: Paediatrics

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Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. For both overviews please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential criteria

• Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy
• State registration with the Health Professions Council.
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio.
• Demonstrate learning of personal effectiveness and first line leadership from experience and from both formal and informal CPD activity.

Desirable criteria

• Membership of CSP special interest groups relevant to speciality

Experience

Essential criteria

• Recent substantial and sustained experience in relevant physiotherapy specialities and clinical settings
• Experience of working as part of a physiotherapy and multidisciplinary team
• To have participated in service development projects.
• Experience of supervision of students/ physiotherapy assistants, with development of basic supervision skills

Desirable criteria

• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital

Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities

Essential criteria

• Able to apply a range and depth of knowledge to this specialist area.
• Able to carry out manual therapy techniques and therapeutic handling, requiring skilful and strenuous physical effort during the working day.
• Ability to remain up to date with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management.
• Competent IT skills.
• To make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations.

Desirable criteria

• Well-developed abilities for communication and consensus building skills, to speak to groups.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.

Documents to download

• Job description (PDF, 848.5KB)
• Functional Requiremen Form (PDF, 280.6KB)
• Our Strategy 2023-25 (PDF, 230.4KB)