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Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Posting date: | 12 June 2024 |
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Salary: | Not specified |
Additional salary information: | £40,701 - £55,492 per annum, pro rata inclusive of HCAS |
Hours: | Part time |
Closing date: | 12 July 2024 |
Location: | Enfield, EN2 0JB |
Company: | North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust |
Job type: | Permanent |
Job reference: | 6390828/393-NMUH-1297-A |
Summary
Band 6 developing to band 7 Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist posts consisting of:
1 x Fixed term 1.00 wte, 37.5 hours per week - 1 year to cover maternity leave from August’24 - August’25
1 x Permanent 0.8wte - 30 hours per week.
Experienced and Professional multi-disciplinary provision delivering Therapeutic services for children with the London borough of Enfield.
The services currently comprise of: Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and language therapy, Dietetics, Complex Needs and Palliative Care Nursing and Specialist Family support. The service works closely with other disciplines within the Child Development Team and Primary Care Team (Health Visiting, School Nursing and Safe guarding services) to provide services across the borough.
The service also works closely with the Local Authority (in particular Joint service for children with Disabilities and Special Education Needs Department) including Schools in the provision of a joined up Health, Education and Social Care provision.
The Physiotherapy service is an established Musculoskeletal (0-14 years) and Neurodisability (0-19 years) service which provides specialised Physiotherapy assessment and intervention to children with varying needs in community settings, special schools, clinic and the CDC.
The recruited Physiotherapist will have a mixed caseload consisting of children of all ages.
To provide specialist assessment for children aged 0-18, who may have complex presentation, to determine relevant clinical picture and specific treatment indicated, working as an autonomous practitioner
To provide specialist advise and work closely with members of the multidisciplinary team, including Paediatricians, Orthopaedic Consultants, GPs, SLT, OT, Nurses, Social care professionals, Educational professionals and other services.
To educate families and carers regarding their child’s specific physiotherapy management including exercise programmes, targeted activities, positioning advice and physical activity recommendations.
To work closely with Wheelchair services, Orthotics department and other specialist equipment agencies, Voluntary agencies and other professional groups to ensure physiotherapy treatment is fully integrated into patient care programmes.
To be responsible for the appropriate physiotherapy treatment of an identified group of children, with a wide variety of conditions, including children with severe physical and/or cognitive impairment, some of whom may have complex social and psychological needs
To formulate individualised physiotherapy management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning skills and utilizing a wide range of specialist treatment approaches.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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For more information regarding the main responsibilities of the role, please refer to the attached Job Description
A wonderful opportunity has arisen for you to join a well-established, highly professional, warm and welcoming children’s physiotherapy team at Enfield. We are looking for a dynamic and enthusiastic Physiotherapist, with established specialist skills and a passion for working with children and their families in a thriving MDT environment.
You will join a long established, supportive, forward-thinking team of highly experienced Physiotherapists working in Enfield Community Services. This is a community role based at St Michael’s Primary Care Centre, delivering physiotherapy services in a range of settings including, schools, homes and clinics.
The post may offer opportunities to work in a range of areas across the service, including within our large Musculoskeletal Service, as well as the Neurodisability Service. All areas of the service are well supported by band 4, band 6, and band 7 colleagues. There is regular in-service training, and your professional development will be well supported by the Clinical Lead.
We also welcome applications from those that would prefer part time work, job share flexible working and those who have specialist skills and would prefer to work in one area – please indicate this on your application.
“This has been the best team I have worked for. Not only is there a wealth of experience (which everyone is more than happy to share and learn from one another), but everyone is so approachable, helpful and it’s great to be part of a team who are friends both in and out of the workplace.” – previous team member
For further information, please contact.
Jasweer Singh operational lead Tel: 07929 383792
This advert closes on Sunday 7 Jul 2024