Specialist Physiotherapist: Children's acute
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Full-time
- Posted
- 21/08/2026
- Closes
- 02/09/2026
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Role summary
This Specialist Physiotherapist role is based at St Mary's Hospital within the Children's Physiotherapy Service. The post holder will provide comprehensive acute services across paediatric and neonatal inpatients, and children's musculoskeletal outpatients. Key responsibilities include clinical leadership for physiotherapy services in Children's Intensive Care and acute paediatrics, staff training, and development. The role involves working with a multidisciplinary team to provide continuity of care for children.
Essential criteria
- Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
- Clinical Educators course or equivalent
Desirable criteria
- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training
- Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
- Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter agency working
- Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
- Experience of service development/change management
- Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
- Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
- Leadership of a therapy team
- Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
- Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
- Clinical research experience
- Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities
- Skills/Knowledge/ Abilities
- Advanced knowledge of assessment and treatment approaches for the effective management of relevant conditions
- Advanced skills in the appropriate application of a range of techniques and approaches to the management of relevant conditions
- Advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills
- Advanced knowledge of relevant conditions
- Advanced knowledge of the evidence base of the relevant therapy area
- Knowledge of the influence of psychosocial and cultural factors health/illness behaviours
- Ability to remain updated with professional practice and research and integrate this into daily patient management
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate as appropriate and manage time effectively
- Able to make sound judgments and reliable decisions in a variety of demanding situations
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
- Understanding of clinical governance and the implications for therapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust's policies of data protection, equal opportunities and health and safety and meet differing patient needs
- Ability to establish and maintain good working relationships
- Ability to pass on knowledge and skills to others in both formal and informal environments
- Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision
- Advanced computer skills for presentation and data analysis
- Negotiation and conflict resolution skills
- Education/ Qualifications
- Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy
- State registration with the Health Professions Council
- Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
- Clinical Educators course or equivalent
- Membership of the Professional Organisation
- Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
- Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
- Management skills or leadership training
- Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
- Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
- Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter agency working
- Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
- Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentices
- Experience of service development/change management
- Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
- Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)
- Previous Band 7 or equivalent experienc
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £58,133 – £65,261 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
Posted 9d ago · Closes in 4d
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Job summary
The Children's Physiotherapy Service is based at St Mary's Hospital. It provides comprehensive acute services across paediatric and neonatal inpatients, children's musculoskeletal outpatients and is contracted by CLCH to provide Children's Physiotherapy community services to North Kensington and Chelsea and Central and North Westminster localities.
This post holder has a clinical leadership role with specific responsibility for the development and provision of physiotherapy services within Children's Intensive Care (PICU) and acute paediatrics, including the training and development of staff.
The in-patient Children's Physiotherapy team provide services to the 15 bedded Children's Intensive Care Unit, specialist paediatric services e.g. Infectious Diseases, Haematology, Neurology, Trauma, and 2 children's wards admitting children with a variety of conditions: respiratory, orthopaedic, surgical and neurological. Close working relationships exist between the acute and community teams to provide continuity of care for children living within the area. Children are referred to the acute Children's Physiotherapy team in the designated Paediatric Accident & Emergency department.
Main duties of the job
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical dutie
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