Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

Job summary

Specialist children and young people services( SCYPs) is a busy multidisciplinary community team as part of the East London Foundation Trust, based in Stratford East London. Newham is one of the most diverse London Boroughs with one of the highest under 5-year -old population per capita. We provide a full range of community services for children and young people in East London. The Physiotherapy service for children and young people provides specialist care for under 18-year-olds with a variety of needs, including common childhood conditions of developmental, neurological or musculoskeletal nature.The specialist community children's services comprise of Spec Community Paediatricians, community nursing team , occupational therapists , Speech and Language Therapists, Dietician and a well-established Physiotherapy team. We work closely with a network of other agencies include health visiting, school nursing and other support services for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our community Physiotherapy team deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and social care sector organisations.

We pride ourselves on ensuring we provide the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high-quality care while supporting our staff to learn and improve.

Main duties of the job

Main duties of the job

The post holder will work with a diverse caseload in a variety of settings supporting the delivery of high-quality specialist physiotherapy services. They will take a lead role in the planning, coordination, delivery and evaluation of care, acting as an expert clinical resource for the multidisciplinary team.

The successful candidate will contribute to service development, quality improvement, clinical practice and education, whilst providing clinical supervision and line management support to junior physiotherapists, support staff and students. They will work closely with the Clinical Lead and the wider multidisciplinary teams to ensure safe, effective and evidence-based patient care.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical:

Provide high quality and evidence-based physiotherapy to under 18 year olds with common and complex and developmental and long term conditions .

Leadership:

Provide clinical and managerial leadership to the physiotherapy and multi-disciplinary teams.

Research/ Audit/ QI:

Undertake and support the team to complete relevant audit, service evaluation, QI and research activity to inform development of practice and services.

Education:

To participate in and deliver local IST and education/ training to the wider MDT

About us

Our mission is to make a positive difference to people's lives by improving the quality of life for all we serve. Our values are: We Care, We Respect, We are Inclusive - so we are looking for people who live and breathe these qualities when supporting service users and carers, and in their relationships with colleagues in the Trust and our partner organisations.