Clinical Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job summary

We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are looking to employ a skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual to lead our inpatient paediatric services, as well as work clinically across our sub specialities.

The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience in a paediatric inpatient setting. The post-holder will work with children and young people with a variety of conditions across the general paediatric wards at RBH, with some outpatient work at the paediatric department at Dingley Child Development Centre. This role will involve working alongside consultants within a clinic setting and as part of the MDT. Experience of Cystic Fibrosis and working with neonates would be an advantage, but not essential.

The successful applicant will have extensive NHS paediatric experience (including paediatric respiratory and inpatient rehabilitation) and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills. You will have sound IT skills and demonstrate the Trust's CARE values.

Regular appraisal, supervision and support will be given and there is a requirement to actively participate in CPD and audit. You will lead the implementation of new initiatives to continue to develop the service in line with best practice and clinical guidelines whilst working closely alongside senior colleagues.

Main duties of the job

• To be a physiotherapy clinical expert in the management of paediatric patients (inpatients and acute outpatients) for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Hospital (RBFT).
• To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the physiotherapy team in conjunction with the Paediatric Physiotherapy Team Lead and Therapy Management.
• To use expert physiotherapy knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the physiotherapy team and other healthcare staff, and to manage own caseload of patients with highly complex conditions as an autonomous practitioner.
• To ensure a high quality, effective physiotherapy service.
• To be a member of the Physiotherapy Department Management team, contributing to planning and policy development in the inter-professional team and department.
• To deputise for the Paediatric Physiotherapy Team Lead as required.

About us

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.

The CQC rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.

Our "CARE" values:Compassionate,Aspirational,Resourceful,Excellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.