Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist

We are looking for an experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist  to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in North Essex, to help us continue to change things for the better. Therapy will be delivered in clinic, at several locations in North Essex between Monday - Friday 9am-5pm however we are flexible with these times and offer hybrid working options.

You will work as a key member of the multidisciplinary team to provide physiotherapy assessment diagnosis and treatment for children, and to support them, their families in self-management and care.
Package DescriptionAs a Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist, you will be part of our valued team

You will feel valued within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

£35,392 - £42,618 Band 6 Salary with AFC Terms and conditions, including NHS pension

Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling 
Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise 
An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year  
The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

Main ResponsibilitiesThis list is intended to summarise the key responsibilities and is not intended to cover every task that may be required of the role:

To manage and prioritise own caseload and workload independently. 
Contribute to departmental development and key performance targets.
Deputising for more senior team members as required.
Provide supervision and line management to a more junior member of the team
To work with the child, their parents/carers and others involved in the child’s care to prioritise treatment aims for the child, including those with complex difficulties and/or terminal illness.
Provide complex and sensitive information to patients in a manner that they can understand e.g. regarding 24 hour postural management, or planning ahead in deteriorating conditions
 

The Ideal CandidateEssential

Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
Registered and compliant with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
Evidence of Post graduate training/or equivalent experience relevant to speciality such as:
Child Development
Bobath Techniques
Specialist courses/ study on conditions that affect child development, MSK, neurodevelopmental conditions o Evidence of continuing professional development
Demonstrable post registration experience with some experience of working with children or in neurology
Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary team.
Experience of using a range of assessments and treatment methods
Knowledge, experience of Children’s Physiotherapy assessments and interventions related to working with children and an understanding of the theoretical framework underpinning these.

About The CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care. 

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do. 

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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