Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist

Posting date:	24 March 2026
Salary:	£38,682.00 to £46,580.00 per year
Additional salary information:	£38682.00 - £46580.00 a year
Hours:	Full time
Closing date:	07 April 2026
Location:	Warrington, WA2 9HY
Company:	NHS Jobs
Job type:	Permanent
Job reference:	C9835-WC25-229

Summary

Bridgewater Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Warrington and Halton Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust plan to integrate and form a new organisation on the 1st April 2026. As such, if your start date is on or after 1st April 2026, you will be employed by the newly formed organisation. Should you join Bridgewater prior to this date, your employment will automatically transfer into the new organisation. We are confident that this transition will provide new opportunities and a continued commitment to excellence in patient care. Duties and Responsibilities: To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care. To ensure high standards of clinical care for the Children and families under your management and support more junior staff to do likewise. Post holders are required to work independently within broad clinical and professional guidelines. Work is managed rather than supervised and this supervision may be provided by peers who may be internal or external to the organisation. To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognosis in a wide range of complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans. To produce informative and detailed information for out of Trust patient transfers for continuing physiotherapy management To deliver the physiotherapy element of care for paediatric patients and on occasions to deliver the elements normally undertaken by nursing or therapy colleagues. To represent the Trust externally at education and social services review meetings regarding respiratory physiotherapy services provided to paediatric patients To undertake the comprehensive specialist assessment of children, including those with a highly complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills. To formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. To accept clinical responsibility for a varied paediatric caseload, and to organise this effectively and efficiently regarding clinical priorities and use of time. To accept partial responsibility for any tasks delegated to less senior qualified or unqualified staff. To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients. To regularly participate in working parties developing policy changes within Paediatrics, which will impact on service users. To ensure that designated staff implement policy and service development changes. To work with the clinical specialist paediatric respiratory physiotherapist in developing the strategic and operational management of the paediatric physiotherapy service. To provide spontaneous and planned highly specialist advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of respiratory physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to the child's care. To provide highly skilled advice for statutory assessment of special educational needs. To provide specialist advice and peer support to physiotherapy, social care and education colleagues in the overall management of the child presenting with complex needs across the local health economy in a range of primary and secondary and community settings. This will include the preparation and presentation of reports and attendance at relevant social services, educational and medical case conferences. To provide specialist advice, teaching and training to other members of the MDT regarding the physical and medical management of patients with paediatric respiratory conditions. To train, supervise and performance manage more junior staff, physiotherapy assistants and students. This will include the use formal appraisal documentation. To train, supervise and performance manage via the use of competencies qualified and unqualified nursing staff, teaching and teaching assistant staff in specific areas of respiratory physiotherapy management Supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification. To communicate effectively with children and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Use communication skills such as persuasion, motivation explanation to encourage patients to undertake their management programme. To use communication tools (verbal and non-verbal) to gain informed consent with patients where there will often be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, fear etc. To work with children and their families to assess capacity, gain valid informed consent and have the ability to work within a legal framework with children where there is a lack of capacity to gain consent to treatment Professional To maintain own clinical professional development (CPD) by keeping abreast of any new trends and developments and incorporate them as necessary into your work. To be an active member of the in-service training programme by the attendance and delivering of presentations and training sessions at staff meetings, tutorials, training sessions in house and by attending external courses and practising reflective practice. To communicate complex patient-related information (as well as non-patient information) effectively and work collaboratively with medical, nursing, education social services and therapy colleagues to ensure delivery of a co-ordinated multidisciplinary service. This will include case conferences, multi-disciplinary assessment attendance at specialist services appointments, consultant appointments, child protection conferences, contributions to statutory assessment for education and discharge planning meetings. To co-ordinate educational staff, social services & voluntary carers to assist in the delivery of treatments /programmes and the planning and organising of clinics / MDT meetings To participate in the staff appraisal scheme and Personal Development Plan (PDP) as both appraiser and appraisee. To undertake the measurement and evaluation of your work and current practices through the use of Evidence Based Practice projects, audit and outcome measures, either individually or alongside the Clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist (band 7) Use information gained to make recommendations for change. To work as a lone Practitioner where needed, without the support of Physiotherapy colleagues. Supervision can be sought through our Clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist (band 7) along with advice of peers and attendance at multi-agency discussion To demonstrate a sound understanding of Clinical Governance and Risk Management and apply to work situation. Organisational To be responsible for a designated area of work, as agreed with the Clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist (band 7) and to plan and organise efficiently and effectively regarding patients management and use of time. To decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands, and ensure that there remain in accordance with those of the section. To be responsible for ensuring the effective selection and use of all treatment resources available both in the community and educational bases. To be responsible for ordering, monitoring and maintaining equipment used in carrying out physiotherapy duties in your particular area of work, and to adhere to departmental policy, including competence to use equipment and to ensure the safe use of equipment by others through, teaching, training and supervision of practice. To deputise for the Clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist (band 7) in terms of operational issues regarding service requirements. To maintain accurate, comprehensive and up-to-date documentation, in line with legal and departmental requirements and communicate assessment and treatment results to the appropriate disciplines in form of reports and letters. To be actively involved in the collection of appropriate data and statistics for the use of the physiotherapy department and paediatric department To be aware of Health and Safety aspects of your work and implement any policies, which may be required to improve the safety of your work area, including your prompt recording and reporting of incidents to senior staff, and ensuring that equipment is safe. To comply with the organisational and departmental policies and procedures and to be involved in the reviewing and updating as appropriate. To be actively involved in the recruitment and selection of lower grade staff. To undertake any other duties that might be considered appropriate by the Clinical specialist respiratory physiotherapist or the Physiotherapy Services Manager.