Job overview

We are seeking a children’s physiotherapist to join our friendly and dynamic children’s community physiotherapy team.

 Our team provides comprehensive, child-centered physiotherapy care to children aged from 0 to 19 years. This is delivered in a variety of settings; the child’s home, clinics, nursery settings, mainstream and special schools, hydrotherapy pools and community leisure facilities.  We also support specialist MDT cystic fibrosis and rheumatology clinics and provide input to the children’s ward at Hereford County Hospital. 

 We are currently working towards implementing the balanced system with a tiered approach to delivering our service. This is an exciting time of service development and the successful applicant will take an active part in this.

We will support your continued professional development and ensure that you have the necessary skills and knowledge to fulfil the expectations of the post.

 Herefordshire is a large rural county. Travel will be required based on service need and access to a car for work purposes will be essential. This post will be predominantly based in Hereford city centre and the north of the county covering early year’s settings, mainstream schools, special schools and clinics. We offer flexible working and the working pattern is negotiable.

For those with an interest in children’s physiotherapy but limited experience a developmental band 5 to band 6 role may be considered.

Main duties of the job

You will be an autonomous practitioner within a well-established team of therapists managing a mixed caseload of children and young people, including neurological, musculoskeletal and developmental conditions. You will provide assessment and treatment using a variety of skills and approaches, demonstrating sound clinical reasoning and working as part of the wider multi-disciplinary team. 

The post holder should have relevant experience with a commitment to providing high quality, evidence based practice and an excellent patient experience.  You should be able to prioritise your workload, manage your time efficiently and work effectively within the team. 

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.

You will play an active part in our on-going in-service training and clinical supervision sessions to support your own professional development and that of others, including students.

Working for our organisation

Wye Valley NHS Trust is a member of an NHS Foundation Group with South Warwickshire NHS FT , the George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust and Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust.

Located on the border with Wales in the shadow of the Black Mountains, we provide acute and community services across Herefordshire and into parts of Powys and run Hereford County Hospital and the community hospitals in Bromyard, Leominster and Ross-on-Wye.

We are a progressive and forward looking trust with ambitious plans to improve quality and integrate patient pathways through close collaborative working with our partners to deliver the quality of care we’d want for our family and friends.

More than 3,500 people work for the Trust – they tell us it’s a great place to work, blending the busyness of a DGH with the benefits of working in a beautiful rural and unspoilt county like Herefordshire.

We can offer a great work-life balance and have a fine tradition of working with staff to help them achieve their full potential.

Russell Hardy, Trust Chairman: “The strength of the Trust is its amazing staff; a great place to work, a great place to develop your career and a great place to reach your potential.”

Our values - Care, Accountability, Respect and Excellence - are at the heart of all we do. We believe in providing the right care in the right place at the right time…all the time.