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From the employer's careers site First seen 7 Nov 2026

Specialist Physiotherapist: Paediatric Respiratory Medicine

Description

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced and motivated Physiotherapist to join the Paediatric Respiratory service within West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH).

This specialist Band 7 role offers the opportunity to work within a highly skilled multidisciplinary team delivering advanced respiratory physiotherapy care to infants, children and young people with complex respiratory and long-term ventilation needs across acute and community pathways.

The post holder will work as a Band 7 Specialist Physiotherapist within the Paediatric Respiratory and Long-Term Ventilation service across West London Children's Healthcare (WLCH). The role involves providing highly specialist physiotherapy assessment, treatment and management for infants, children and young people with complex respiratory, neuromuscular and long-term ventilation needs.

The successful candidate will independently manage a complex clinical caseload across inpatient and outpatient settings, delivering evidence-based respiratory physiotherapy interventions and contributing to multidisciplinary care planning. The role requires advanced clinical reasoning, specialist respiratory skills and the ability to work collaboratively with children, families, carers and multidisciplinary teams across acute and community services.

The post holder will also provide leadership and supervision to junior staff, assistants and students, contribute to service development and quality improvement initiatives, and support education, audit and research activities within the specialty.

In return, WLCH offers:

  • Outstanding learning and development opportunities
  • Access to specialist clinical supervision and leadership development
  • Opportunities to participate in research and innovation through Imperial College London and the Centre for Paediatrics and Child Health (PaeCH)
  • A supportive multidisciplinary working environment
  • Opportunities to work across diverse specialist paediatric services
  • Access to NHS pension and staff benefits schemes

The role includes participation in weekend working and the physiotherapy on-call rota following completion of competency-based training and induction.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a progressive and research-active paediatric service within a unique integrated children's healthcare organisation committed to improving outcomes for children and young people across North West London.

Skills

Required

  • Physiotherapy
  • Paediatric Respiratory Medicine
  • Advanced clinical reasoning
  • Specialist respiratory skills
  • Multidisciplinary team working
  • Leadership and supervision
  • Service development and quality improvement
  • Education, audit and research

Nice to have

  • Membership of the Professional Organisation
  • Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
  • Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
  • Management skills or leadership training
  • Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in a relevant post
  • Leadership of a therapy team
  • Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
  • Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
  • Clinical research experience
  • Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

Ready to apply?

You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9289-26-0257

Apply on Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust