Job Description

This job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.



Are you a newly qualified physiotherapist? Registered with the HCPC or have applied for registration? Or an experienced Band 5 looking for a new challenge?

Are you passionate about :

working with children and families, functional outcomes for children, enabling education staff and parents?



If so, we are delighted to be able to offer this opportunity to join our children's community service.



This is a community post, across the large city of Birmingham, with a caseload of children and young people with neurological and developmental conditions.



The work will primarily involve a combination of working at Special School, Mainstream school and clinic based assessments, delivering intervention in the form of Packages of Care. The post holder will work closely with the child, family and other professionals involved in their care. Candidates will also have responsibility for supervision of designated staff.



To manage a defined caseload of children with a variety of conditions. These will include children with neurological disabilities, functional difficulties and children with neuromuscular difficulties. To be responsible for the assessment and on-going therapeutic management of children in community and special school settings which may include designated , schools, nurseries and in community clinics. The postholder will competently assess and deliver PT programmes to children in the service and will be accountable for their own clinical work as well as to their nominated supervisor.



The postholder will carry out assessments independently and as part of a multidisciplinary team. They will provide advice and guidance for families, carers and multi disciplinary team, including Health, Education and Social Care and Health staff.



The postholder will play an active part in the Physiotherapy service participating in team and service based initiatives and activities.



We offer a friendly and supportive working environment with a strong emphasis on CPD through access to specialist clinical support, sharing good practice and effective team working.

Join our department at this exciting time:

The Paediatric Physiotherapy service, works as part of Inclusion Services within the Children and Families Division of Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. We work across the whole City, within a range of community and educational settings, thus requiring successful applicants to demonstrate a high level of flexibility.



We value our staff and advocate career progression internally. We encourage our therapists to contribute to service development, and we welcome and value new ideas and experiences.



We offer a supportive working environment with access to specialist clinical support, and an emphasis on sharing good practice through effective team working.



Please see JD and Person Spec for more details



To be responsible for a clinical caseload within the special school and monitor own workload/ treatment methods in order to maintain high professional standards. To advise Professional Lead for Physiotherapy / Service Clinical Manager of related issues as appropriate.



To be professionally accountable and responsible for all aspects of own work, including the management of children on the caseload.



To assess and reassess the needs of the child, analysing and interpreting the information gathered to contribute to the diagnosis and formulate a treatment plan.



To provide care plans to meet goals and evaluate the effectiveness of interventions using appropriate outcome measures and make any necessary modifications.



Develop intervention packages to be delivered as one to one sessions either by the physiotherapist or physiotherapy assistant.



To supervise PT students on practice placement.