Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 825-6991811-OPS
- Employer
- Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Coral House
- Town
- Shrewsbury
- Salary
- 拢37,338 - 拢44,962 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 23/03/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Community Paediatric Physiotherapist
Band 6
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust believes in fairness, equity and above all values diversity in all aspects of its work, as a provider of health services and as an employer of people. We provide visa sponsorship to applicant who require a visa to work in the UK, providing the role you鈥檝e been recruited to meets the requirements set by the Home Office.
From 4 April 2024 overseas workers requiring a general Skilled Worker Visa (such as data analysts, IT and finance professionals, etc) but sponsored by an NHS organisation will need to meet the new salary threshold of 拢38,700. In addition, applications to the Health and Care Visa route for those occupations paid by NHS bands that are on the immigration salary, a list of skilled jobs which have lower salary requirements, will need to meet the national pay scale for their role or the new minimum salary threshold of 拢23,200 (whichever is higher). We advise that you check that the role you wish to apply for meets the requirement for sponsorship before applying.
Further guidance on eligible roles can be found here- 听 https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list/skilled-worker-visa-immigration-salary-list
https://www.gov.uk/health-care-worker-visa/different-salary-requirements
Job overview
Are you looking for a new challenge?
We are inviting applicants to join us in the children's Physiotherapy team to support with service delivery, providing new assessment and follow up interventions for babies and children in the community and helping us to develop our current and new services.
The post holder will take a leading role in assessing and supporting the evolving identification of physical needs of children/ young people. You may have experience in working with children in early years, with long term conditions, MSK, or with respiratory conditions
As a successful applicant you will have highly developed clinical decision-making skills to support children's assessment and care management. You will be confident in working in a flexible and responsive way. You will understand about effective partnership working especially with children and young people, parents and educators.
We will support you through continuing professional development, supervision and line management and peer support.
We look forward to welcoming you to the team
If you are interested and would like to know more contact Uta Wilkinson, Clinical Lead Early Years Children's Physiotherapy, 01952 567300 or via email [email protected]听
Please note this vacancy may close early if a high volume of applications are received, we advise you submit your application early to avoid disappointment.
Main duties of the job
To provide, as an autonomous practitioner assessment, formulation and evidence-based interventions for service users and to refer on to other providers as appropriate.听
To work as a member of the community Physiotherapy team and to contribute to its development and function (within the post holders sphere of competence) in any setting听
required by the service.听
To develop the post holders own professional practice by keeping abreast of clinical developments and responding to available evidence.听
To provide consultation, advice, education and training about Paediatric Physiotherapy within the multi-agency setting in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.听
Working for our organisation
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust provides community-based health services for adults and children in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin, and some services in surrounding areas too. These range from district nursing, health visiting and running four community hospitals through to providing very specialist community care through talented and dedicated staff.
Patients, carers and the public play a vital role in helping us to develop and improve our services and we are constantly looking for ways to work with local communities, patients and the public to innovate and improve. Have a look at the Have Your Say section of our website to find out how you can feed back your experiences and help us to continually improve.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust is an exciting place to work. It offers a wide range of employment opportunities for many people.
Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust positively encourages applications from all areas of the community, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation or religious beliefs. We are committed to ensuring people who work for the community trust have a good working life - and a good work life/home life balance.
听
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the |Job Description and Person Specification attached for furhter information on the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Current registration with the Health and Care Professions Council
- Evidence of continued professional development
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of planning and providing clinical care to adults or children and young people with physiotherapy needs.
- Experience of working in a variety of settings.
- Experience of working in a multi-disciplinary/multi agency environment
Knowledge and Skills
Essential criteria
- Good knowledge of physiotherapy core skills and processes.
- Demonstration of knowledge of child development.
- Awareness of recent developments in practice and research including NSFs/NICE guidelines .
- Previous experience of delivering programmes of care.
- Knowledge of safeguarding children and young people.
- Understanding of clinical governance and risk management and there implications for the service.
- Competent in the use of IT.
- Experience of undertaking clinical audits
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.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Uta Wilkinson
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Early Years Children's Physio
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01952 567300
- Additional information
or Alison Parkinson, Children's AHP lead on 01743 450847 or via email: [email protected]
List jobs with Shropshire Community Health NHS Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors