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Job summary

Main area
Orthopaedics
Grade
8a
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 27 hours per week
Job ref
411-SUR-25-7353705
Employer
Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Alder Hey
Town
Liverpool
Salary
£55,690 - £62,682 per annum pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
29/08/2025 23:59

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Physiotherapy Practitioner – Neuro-Orthopaedics Cerebral Palsy

8a

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care and has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.

We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.

As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.

You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:

  • Great flexible working opportunities
  • Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
  • Generous annual leave and pension scheme
  • Extensive staff health and well-being programmes

Job overview

  Alder Hey is offering an exciting opportunity to join the  Orthopaedic Neuromuscular team & Northwest Movement Analysis Centre (NWMAC). This department comprises a multidisciplinary team that provides a regional specialist service for children with cerebral palsy and other neuromuscular conditions. The Gait Lab at Alder Hey serves as the central hub for the cerebral palsy service, offering recommendations for non-operative interventions, multi-level surgical interventions, including pre-operative planning, and pre- and post-surgical rehabilitation protocols. This specialist service is looking to appoint a  physiotherapy practitioner for 27 hours per week. 

Main duties of the job

  To provide a comprehensive, high quality, expert physiotherapy service for the North West region, within the clinical speciality of Orthopaedic Surgical Management of Cerebral Palsy encompassing management of hip, spine and lower limb. To work as an autonomous clinician using advanced specialist skills, knowledge and experience to collaborate in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of treatment interventions for children and young people within this discipline.

Working for our organisation

As one of Europe’s biggest and busiest children’s hospitals, at Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, we treat everything from common illnesses to highly complex and specialist conditions. In addition to our main hospital site, we offer paediatric services at a number of community sites and hold local clinics across Merseyside, Cumbria, Shropshire, Wales and the Isle of Man. We also provide specialist inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs in our recently relocated and newly opened state of the art facility.

Alder Hey has a thriving research portfolio and leads research into children’s medicines, infection, inflammation and oncology. We are becoming recognised as one of the world’s leaders in children’s healthcare and research. We contribute to public health, lead cutting-edge research and teach the next generation of children’s specialists. Alongside this is our Innovation Hub, a dedicated space where clinicians and industries can come together to create new products and technologies.

We know that a children’s hospital is different and that our job is more than just treating an illness. To us, every child is an individual. As well as giving them the very best care, we set out to make them feel happy, safe and confident as they play, learn and grow. At Alder Hey we are here to look after a child and their family and that includes mums, dads, brothers and sisters.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Practice

1.     To be professionally and legally responsible for all aspects of work including the management of patients within your care.

 

2.     To work as an autonomous and effective member of the Orthopaedic Cerebral Palsy and Spinal multi-disciplinary teams, working within clinic, gait laboratory and ward settings, supporting community teams in providing an efficient, up-to-date, evidence based physiotherapy service.

 

3.    To be directly responsible for the day to day orthopaedic management of patients with cerebral palsy in collaboration with Alder Hey Orthopaedic Consultants.

 

See JD for full job information 

Person specification

Education and Training

Essential criteria
  • • BSc or diploma in physiotherapy.
Desirable criteria
  • Member of or contribute towards relevant specialist interest groups eg CMAS, BSSCP, BSS

Experience

Essential criteria
  • • Managing the care of children with neurodisability
Desirable criteria
  • participation in research

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • • Ability to demonstrate highly specialist assessment and management skills within the specialist field of orthopaedics and neurodisability

Skills

Essential criteria
  • • Evidence of excellent communication skills both written and verbal, enabling the post holder to communicate with professionals, carers and children and those who have communication difficulties.
Desirable criteria
  • • Completion of a post graduate leadership course

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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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.

Application numbers

This vacancy may close early if it receives a high number of applications. Please complete and submit your application in good time to avoid disappointment.

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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Maisie St John
Job title
Service Manager
Email address
[email protected]
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