Job overview

We are pleased to advertise this exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join our Neurodisability and Tone Management Service. 

The successful candidate will be responsible for highly specialised assessments of children and young people with complex neurodisability and be involved in the clinical decision making of their management as part of the wider MDT. The role may also involve the theurapeutic management of complex neurodisability children on the wards and rehabilitation post tone management intervention. 

The successful candidate will join our Integrated Therapy team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Assistant Practitioners, managing a complex caseload of children under the care of our neurology and neurosurgical teams as well as supporting the wider therapy service. 

Main duties of the job

1. To assume a clinical role as part of a comprehensive therapy service in the tone management of children with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders, requiring a range of interventions including neurosurgery.
   2. To provide advanced assessment and treatment, formulated around evidence-based practice and recognised national standards.
   3. To join an integrated service for patients with neurological impairment, in conjunction with the neurology therapy team and with the support of the  Clinical Specialist.
   4.To work as an autonomous clinician using specialist skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions, in the treatment of patients within this specialty who have acute and long term, serious and life limiting medical conditions.
   5. To use highly developed analytical and judgment skills to be directly involved in the clinical decision-making process, using robust clinical reasoning. As part of the multidisciplinary team, use and interpret the results of clinical assessment to contribute to the management of the child’s condition and physical presentation.
   6. To provide appropriate specialist and professional advice, education and liaison to patients, carers, colleagues, and all members of the wider multi agency teams to promote optimal therapy management.
   7. To be responsible for the supervision of junior staff and students.
   8. To support the wider Neurology team in the management of children and young people with Neurodisability.

Working for our organisation

Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year.  Alder Hey 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 Childrens 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