Children's specialised Community Physiotherapist
At a glance
- Band
- Band 6
- Contract
- Fixed-term
- Pattern
- Part-time
- Posted
- 28/08/2026
- Closes
- 11/09/2026
Sponsorship verdict
This contract type is not eligible for Skilled Worker sponsorship.
NHS Trusts cannot issue a Certificate of Sponsorship for part-time, bank, locum, zero-hours, job-share or short fixed-term (under 12 months) contracts under current Home Office rules. This applies even when the wider Trust holds a Skilled Worker licence.
Role summary
This fixed-term post offers an opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join a multidisciplinary team delivering services to children and young people in Mid Cornwall. You will assess and deliver evidence-based treatments for babies, children, and young people with neurological and neuromuscular conditions. The role involves working in conjunction with various agencies to provide seamless co-ordinated care and contributing to differential diagnoses. You will also have the opportunity to work in one of our Special Schools.
Key responsibilities
- Assess for and deliver evidence based, holistic care for infants, children and young adults with movement disorders of neuro-muscular aetiologies.
- Assess for, and instruct children, their families and carers in the use of special equipment and orthoses, and jointly agree outcome measures.
- Set therapeutic goals in collaboration with the child, parents and carers.
- Demonstrate competency to practise as an autonomous practitioner within the Children's Community Therapy Service protocols and guidelines.
- Prepare Education and Health Care Plan submissions, and statements for medico-legal and Safeguarding purposes.
- Delegate to, and supervise, junior staff and students, and participate in service development and continuous service improvement.
Essential criteria
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council
- Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Experience within paediatric Neurodisability
- Multi-professional and interagency team working
- Ability to independantly travel across Cornwall to other sites as required
Desirable criteria
- oExperience of working alone as well as part of a team
- oRelevant Post-graduate specialist courses
- oExperience carrying out CPIP assessments
- oExperience of Children's specialist equipment used within the community
- Practical/Intellectual Skills
- oTo be able to demonstrate Proficient IT skills including Microsoft 10; Excel, Email, Power Point, Word.
- oAbility to work autonomously and be confident with lone working
- oAn ability to manage a designated caseload
- oAbility to effectively communicate with colleagues and MDT
- Previous experience of managing a community caseload
- Degree in Physiotherapy
- Registration with Health and Care Professions Council
- Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Experience within paediatric Neurodisability
- Multi-professional and interagency team working
- Ability to independantly travel across Cornwall to other sites as required
- oExperience of working alone as well as part of a team
- oRelevant Post-graduate specialist courses
- oExperience carrying out CPIP assessments
- oExperience of Children's specialist equipment used within the community
- Practical/Intellectual Skills
- oTo be able to demonstrate Proficient IT skills including Microsoft 10; Excel, Email, Power Point, Word.
- oAbility to work autonomously and be confident with lone working
- oAn ability to manage a designated caseload
- oAbility to effectively communicate with colleagues and MDT
- Previous experience of managing a community caseload
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 6 at £37,338 – £44,962 a year, across England.
This advert: £39,959 – £48,117 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Royal Cornwall Hospitals Trust
Children's specialised Community Physiotherapist
The closing date is 11 September 2026
Job summary
This fixed term post offers a wonderful opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join an existing and well-established multidisciplinary team of physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians and support staff delivering services to children and young people in the Mid Cornwall area.
Do you have effective communication skills, a flexible approach, and the ability to work both as part of a team and independently? Can you demonstrate an enthusiastic approach to learning and service delivery? Have you experience of working with children?
You will deliver assessment andevidence-basedtreatments for babies, children and young people with neurological and neuromuscular conditions which result in movement impairment and/or global developmental delay and physical and/or learning disabilities. You will have the opportunity to work in one of our Special Schools.
You will work in conjunction with colleagues in the health community, Education Authority, Social Care and other partnership agencies to deliver seamless co-ordinated care to patients and their families, and disseminate knowledge and facilitate a better understanding of disorders of movement impairment. You will contribute to differential diagnoses for children on your casel
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