Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 289-CS-118
- Employer
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £46,419 - £55,046 per annum incl. HCAS
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/08/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Paediatric Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 6
Job overview
A Band 6 rotational position has become vacant within the Chelsea & Westminster Hospital Paediatric Physiotherapy Team.
Chelsea is centrally located with good transport links, making it a great place for people who like culture with the local museums and art galleries, evenings out, and is also close to areas with a village atmosphere and green spaces .
We provide high quality, family-centred care to children and young people attending the Chelsea Children’s Hospital and as part of the Cheyne Child Development Service - working in a variety of locations including the child’s home, educational and healthcare settings.
You should have paediatric experience with demonstrable knowledge of specific paediatric assessments and treatments. The post provides plenty of opportunities to further develop your skills across a range of paediatric conditions, with regular supervision to support your development.
The job involves cross site work between the Chelsea and the West Middlesex site and participation on the weekend and out of hours rota.
Main duties of the job
Rotations take place annually in January and include the acute team working with inpatients including the high dependency unit and musculo-skeletal outpatients (including fracture and ED clinics) and the community team who are based at Parkview Centre for Health in White City and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital- working in a variety of locations including the child’s home, educational and healthcare settings. Hydrotherapy facilities are available in the community. Rotations within the community team focus on different clinical areas; Under 5s, over 5s, and a special school for children with severe/profound learning difficulties and complex medical needs. One of the community paediatric rotations includes working with the Paediatric Orthopaedic Practitioners and Orthopaedic Consultants in the Ponseti club foot clinic. The post includes participation in the hospital’s respiratory on-call and weekend service for both adults and children.
Good communication skills are essential as you will be working independently and alongside other health and social care professionals; including our highly specialized paediatric orthopaedic team, orthotics service and the wider multi-disciplinary team.
Working for our organisation
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of England's top-performing and safest trusts. We operate two main acute hospital sites—Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and West Middlesex University Hospital—along with award-winning clinics across North West London.
Our nearly 7,500 staff care for a diverse population of 1.5 million, providing full clinical services, including maternity, A&E, and children’s services, plus specialist HIV and sexual health clinics. The Care Quality Commission rates us 'Good' in safety, effectiveness, care, and responsiveness, and 'Outstanding' in leadership and resource use.
We continually invest in our facilities, including a £30m expansion of critical care at Chelsea and Westminster and an £80m Ambulatory Diagnostic Centre at West Middlesex.
We welcome applications for flexible working arrangements, accommodating requests where possible to support our staff and patient needs.
The Trust is committed to equality and welcomes applications from all, regardless of background. Adjustments can be made for disabled candidates. Early application is advised as vacancies may close once sufficient applications are received. If you haven’t heard from us within three weeks of the closing date, your application was likely unsuccessful. Employment is subject to a six-month probationary period.
Some roles may require weekend shifts at multiple sites.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- The post holder will be a clearly identifiable senior clinical staff member.
- They will have significant clinical experience, provide sound clinical expertise to their team and more junior staff and coordinate and deliver high quality care.
- They will be a role model for expert clinical care, and lead on specific projects / service developments and management functions as delegated by the Band 7 therapist or Clinical Lead Therapist.
- They will role model the identified Trust values at all times.
- The post holder will work as an autonomous practitioner in providing physiotherapy assessment, treatment and management to their own designated caseload of patients and to maintain up to date physiotherapy records.
- They will evidence based principles and current best practise to assess, plan, implement and evaluate physiotherapy interventions.
- The post holder will provide supervision, teaching and support to more junior staff, therapy assistants and students on placement.
Person specification
EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS
Essential criteria
- BSc or Diploma in Physiotherapy
- HPC registration
- Evidence of CPD and relevant post graduate courses
Desirable criteria
- Member of special interest group ie: APCP, Neonatal SIG
- CPD portfolio
- Relevant post graduate qualifications
EXPERIENCE
Essential criteria
- Evidence of experience as a Band 5 therapist (or equivalent) in paediatrics.
- Experience working as part of MDT
- Participation in emergency on-call and weekend respiratory services including both adults and paediatrics
- Relevant post registration experience at Band 5 level in core areas including Musculoskeletal, neurology, orthopaedic and respiratory
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of working in a non-clinical team
- Evidence of presentation at in-service training
- Evidence of experience at Band 6 therapist in paediatrics
- Evidence of paediatric courses
- Evidence of working with children in a non-clinical setting
SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE - SPECIAL
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates specialist knowledge and experience of paediatric orthopaedic, respiratory, neuro-developmental, neonatal and musculo-skeletal assessment and treatment interventions
- Demonstrates advanced clinical reasoning skills
- Demonstrates understanding of child protection procedures
- Able to prioritise/good time management
- The ability to clinically reason the application of appropriate assessment and treatment techniques in a variety of paediatric clinical settings.
- Identifies challenges of working in varying hospital settings and demonstrates the ability to adapt own practice accordingly.
- The ability to guide and direct therapy assistants and students in clinical practice
- Evidence of effective self-management including time, prioritisation, clinical caseload and stress
- The ability to use reflective practice as a tool for growth and development
- Evidence of effective self-management including time, prioritisation, clinical caseload and stress
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of participation in research or audit
- Competent IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Virginia Knox
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Community Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02033158667
- Additional information
David Soulsby Clinical Lead Acute Paediatric Physiotherapy
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