Community Children's Physiotherapist
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 17 Rhagfyr 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | £44,485.00 i £52,521.00 bob blwyddyn |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £44485.00 - £52521.00 a year |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 29 Rhagfyr 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | London, N15 4RH |
| Cwmni: | NHS Jobs |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | C9220-25-0859 |
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PATIENT/CLIENT CARE 1. To carry a personal clinical caseload maintaining a high level of professional competence and demonstrate developing clinical expertise. 2. To undertake comprehensive assessment of children with complex developmental, neurological and specialist orthopaedic conditions. Investigative and analytical skills should be used to formulate individualised management and treatment plans incorporating a wide range of treatment skills and using clinical reasoning. 3. To provide physiotherapy treatment of children using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options and provide ongoing treatment programmes. 4. To provide specialist advice and assessment for the provision of appropriate aids and equipment and monitor their use. 5. To administer specialist standardised and structured assessments, interpret results and contribute to accurate diagnosis and prognosis within the team responsible for the childs care. 6. To assess and treat individual children with complex needs, in their homes and school or clinic setting, working as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and liaising closely with education staff and parents/carers. 7. To use a range of communication strategies to overcome barriers to communicating e.g. language, communication difficulties or cognitive impairment and English as a second language, to engage and motivate the child and their family/carers in their Physiotherapy treatment. 8. To attend meetings necessary to co-ordinate multi-agency care of the child e.g. transition planning, child protection. 9. To make referrals to other services as required to meet the child or familys identified needs. 10. To keep accurate and adequate records, and write reports and discharge summaries as required, ensuring that confidentiality and information-sharing standards are met as in Trust and professional standards. 11. To communicate complex clinical information and care plans to parents, carers, and staff in other agencies, for them to understand and carry out effective treatment or management of the child. 12. To establish relationships with community services and facilities, and to assist children and their families to make links with resources available to them. 13. To work effectively with clients, carers, and colleagues around individual case management, providing advice, guidance and support as necessary and involving them in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible. 14. To reflect on clinical practice; adequately identifying strengths & needs of clients, reviewing their response to therapy and providing evidence of sound clinical judgement. 15. To monitor and review the progress of children on caseload and facilitate the development or modification of packages of care / targets as appropriate using evaluation/outcome measurement tools. 16. To adapt practice to meet individual client/carers circumstances, considering cultural and linguistic backgrounds. 17. To produce accurate, & detailed reports, therapy programmes, advice and information as necessary in a timely manner. 18. To respond to the requirements of the 1996 Education Act, The Childrens and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice (2015), by completing written advice for children who may have Special Educational Needs. 19. To refer children to other Health, Education or Social Services professionals as necessary. 20. To undertake home visits, as necessary, in compliance with Home Visiting Safety Policy. COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS: 1. To be able to gather information that may be sensitive or complex and analyse it as part of a full assessment of a clients strengths and difficulties. 2. To work closely with clients and carers using empathy, tact, reassurance and active listening to complete assessments, discuss results, and agree treatment options. 3. To develop skills in motivating clients/carers to engage in the therapeutic process. 4. To negotiate and manage conflict effectively in a range of settings, with support and supervision from line manager. 5. To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible 6. To form effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or carers who may be under stress and/or having challenging behaviour. 7. To provide training to a variety of audiences on aspects of physiotherapy