# Rotational Paediatric Physiotherapist

**Company**: Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Salary**: £47951.00 to £56863.00
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

A Band 6 rotational position has become vacant within the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Paediatric Physiotherapy Team.

The role involves cross-site work between the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital and the West Middlesex Hospital site, and participation on the weekend and out of hours rota.

The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member with significant clinical experience, providing sound clinical expertise to their team and more junior staff, and coordinating and delivering high-quality care.

Main duties of the job:

- Rotations take place annually in January and include the acute team working with inpatients, including the high dependency unit and musculo-skeletal outpatients, and the community team who are based at Parkview Centre for Health in White City and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.

- Hydrotherapy facilities are available in the community.

- Rotations within the community team focus on different clinical areas; Under 5s, over 5s, and a special educational school for children with severe/profound learning difficulties and complex medical needs.

- One of the community paediatric rotations includes working with the Paediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners and Orthopaedic Consultants in the Ponseti club foot clinic.

- The post includes participation in the hospital's respiratory on-call and weekend service for both adults and children.

Responsibilities:

- Provide physiotherapy assessment, treatment, and management to own designated caseload of patients.

- Maintain up-to-date physiotherapy records.

- Evidence-based principles and current best practice to assess, plan, implement, and evaluate physiotherapy interventions.

- Provide supervision, teaching, and support to more junior staff, therapy assistants, and students on placement.

Requirements:

- BSc or Diploma in Physiotherapy.

- HPC registration.

- Evidence of CPD and relevant post-graduate courses.

- Experience as a Band 5 therapist in paediatrics.

- Experience working as part of MDT.

- Participation in emergency on-call and weekend respiratory services including both adults and paediatrics.

Salary: £47,951 to £56,863 a year.

The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background.

## Skills

### Required
- paediatric assessments
- physiotherapy
- musculo-skeletal
- respiratory
- neuro-developmental
- orthopaedic

### Nice to have
- member of special interest group
- CPD portfolio
- relevant post-graduate qualifications
- competent IT skills

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