Job overview

This Band 6 Physiotherapy role is with a team that delivers high quality, efficient and specialised physiotherapy care to children and young people aged 0-18 across all community settings in Manchester.

This role is working with children and young people with physical disabilities, facilitating inclusive, multi-disciplinary and multi-agency management to enable young people to reach their full physical potential and participate in family, school and wider social life.

The role requires a focused, highly reliable and forward-thinking physiotherapist with paediatric experience and knowledge, able to undertake assessment, clinical analysis and treatment planning.  You’ll possess excellent skills in communication with the confidence and professionalism to work and liaise with a range of agencies and a strong ability to collaborate and work as part of a team. You will be instrumental in the training of physiotherapy students.

Our service offers a large 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 work autonomously using clinical judgement and analytical skills based on experience and knowledge.

To undertake the comprehensive specialist assessment of children and young people including those with a complex presentation using investigative and analytical skills.

To accept clinical responsibility for a varied children’s caseload and to organise this effectively with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.

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.

To provide spontaneous and planned specialist advice, teaching and instruction to parents, carers and other professionals in all settings.  

To provide highly specialist advice for Education Health Care Plans.

To attend Safeguarding Conferences and Core Group meetings as appropriate.

To assess children and young people for specialist equipment for postural control and to facilitate the provision of that equipment. To instruct those working with the child in the use of that equipment.  To monitor new developments in specialised equipment, help in piloting new equipment and communicate with manufacturers.

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of over £3bn & 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.