Community Paediatric Physiotherapist

Herefordshire and Worcestershire Health and Care NHS Trust

Job summary

We are seeking a
Children’s Physiotherapists to join our passionate and experienced team, who
offer service to Children and Young People (CYP) across Worcestershire. We work
with Children aged 0-18 with a range of presenting difficulties, in a variety
of settings including homes, nurseries, mainstream and special schools and in
our clinic bases.

This is a full time post but we would consider applicants looking for part time (minimum 22.5 hours per week).

Our service has 3 bases across Worcestershire, in Redditch,
Kidderminster and Worcester and we work very closely with our Childrens
Occupational Therapy colleagues, in many cases being co located in bases.

We have a variety of roles and bandings within the service,
including team leads, clinical specialists, Physio Technicians and
apprentices. This enables us to offer
supportive supervision, training and development opportunities.

This is a dynamic, innovative and friendly
team who work in partnership with families and young people to offer high
quality care. It is an exciting time of ongoing service development whilst we
move towards implementing the balanced system across therapy services.

Main duties of the job

To take responsibility for managing children and young people
with particular conditions and be responsible for providing specialist
assessments and treatment plans for children and young people with these presentations. This includes children with developmental
delay/ learning difficulties, neurological conditions and musculoskeletal
injuries.

You will be expected to develop individual treatment programmes
using assessment, reasoning skills and treatment skills based on a sound
knowledge of evidence based practice and a range of treatment options.

You will work closely with your multi disciplinary and multi
agency colleagues to ensure an integrated approach to patient care. This would include health, social care and
education colleagues.

You will need to have a good understanding of safeguarding of
children and young people.

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

  • Experience of working in a variety of specialities.
  • Experience of working within MDT to deliver care / intervention.

Qualifications

Essential

  • Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy.
  • HCPC registration.
  • I understand that I will be asked to provide original certificates to verify my qualifications at point of offer.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 27 July 2026

To apply for this job please visit www.jobs.nhs.uk.