Job overview

This Band 6 MSK Physiotherapy role is within the Children & Young People’s MSK team that delivers high quality specialist children's physiotherapy care to children and young people aged 0-18 across all community clinics in Manchester.

This role is assessing, treating and advising children and young people with musculoskeletal disorders and requires a focused, highly reliable and forward-thinking physiotherapist with paediatric experience and knowledge, able to undertake assessment, clinical analysis and treatment planning.  

Our service offers a supportive team to work alongside and will enable you to learn quickly and work with highly skilled and experienced paediatric physiotherapists. You will have access to advice and support from senior staff, an established development framework, an active IST and involvement in service development. 

 This is a community post, and you will need have a UK driving license and access to a vehicle.

Main duties of the job

To have HCPC registration, a degree in Physiotherapy and be professionally, legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work, working to agreed national and professional standards.

As an experienced autonomous practitioner to undertake the assessment, clinical diagnosis and treatment of children & young people with musculo-skeletal conditions. They may have multiple pathology with a complex presentation

To ensure a high standard of care for each child, working with all disciplines and agencies involved with the family

To undertake a significant clinical caseload to a high professional standard using specialist knowledge from theoretical and practical experience

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and effective intervention strategies.

To formulate with parents/carers and the child/young person an individual physiotherapy management plan using advanced clinical reasoning skills

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trusts in England with a turnover of £2.8bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year. 

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary. 

We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022. 

We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable. 
 
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.