Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 30 hours per week (Working pattern must include a Friday)
- Job ref
- 040-AHP155-1025
- Employer
- Aneurin Bevan University Health Board
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Nevill Hall Children's Centre
- Town
- Abergavenny
- Salary
- £48,527 - £55,532 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 29/10/2025 23:59
- Interview date
- 11/11/2025
Employer heading
Children's Team Lead Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
We encourage applications from all with protected characteristics and from those in the Armed Forces Community. Applicants are invited to apply in Welsh, any application submitted through the medium of Welsh will not be treated less favourably than applications made in English.
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If you are successful at interview for this post you will receive your conditional offer of appointment and information pack via email.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy at any time. Therefore we encourage early applications to ensure consideration for this post. If you are short listed for this post, you will be contacted via your email account you used to apply for this post, therefore please check your account regularly.
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Aneurin Bevan University Health Board support flexible working.
Please note that this vacancy may be withdrawn at any time should it be filled via the internal redeployment process
Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an ambitious and experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist with strong leadership skills. We are looking for a dynamic individual to lead the team at Nevill Hall Children's Centre.
Strong leadership will be required to support service transition towards new models of care. Working closely with Clinical Leads and the Operational Manager to ensure the service objectives and workplans are realised.
The successful candidate will require excellent interpersonal skills to empower the team through service change and significant post registration experience is required due to the nature of the role which requires full flexibility. You will manage a complex dedicated caseload, delivering and adapting packages of care using evidence-based assessment and clinical reasoning. You will work within a tiered delivery model and apply the Care Aims approach to prioritise a busy and evolving workload.
- To lead, triage and delegate clinical work and be responsible day to day for the Physiotherapy service at Nevill Hall Children's Centre, surrounding geographical area and local in reach to schools in the locality.
- Demonstrate strong leadership skills and a passion for service improvement, efficient clinical practice and service modernisation.
- To provide induction, supervision and support to registered and support staff within the team.
- Respond flexibly to emerging service needs and support sustainability through upskilling and collaborative working.
Main duties of the job
- To maintain high professional standards, continuously promoting and developing the Physiotherapy profession and our service
- Assessment and treatment of a range of Paediatric patients.
- Carry out regular caseload reviews, 1:1s, PADRs and manage registrants and support staff in order to prioritise workloads.
- To work independently within scope of practice, competencies and boundaries utilising evidence based practice, making safe decisions regarding the planning, assessment, intervention and support being offered to child/family.
- Participates and contributes to regular leadership and management meetings, steering group and site operational meetings to work closely with the wider MDT.
- The post holder will provide advice to inform service development within their speciality report to the Operational Manager, Clinical Leads and Senior Management team.
- English and/or Welsh speakers are equally welcome to apply
Working for our organisation
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.
We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.
Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see detailed job description, core responsibilities and person specification for more information.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant experience at Band 6 within speciality
- Senior postgraduate clinical experience and complex case management
- Significant senior post grad experience requiring management skills
- Experience of leading clinical & organisational audit
- Previous Leadership experience
- Worked unsupervised at a senior level
- Facilitation of learning with undergraduate students
- Experience of facilitating learning with undergraduate students
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of having participated in on-call and weekend duties where appropriate
- Developing and implementing guidelines and standards
- Commitment to teaching locally and at an undergrad and post graduate level
- Worked across MDT and multi-agency boundaries
- Experience of representing physiotherapy in a public/professional arena
- Experience of user participation and service development
- Experience presenting
- Experience leading meetings
- Worked in UK as HCPC registered Physiotherapist
- Evidence of having worked in the UK as a HCPC registered Physiotherapist
Education/Qualifications/training
Essential criteria
- Diploma/degree Physiotherapy
- Registered with HCPC
- Appropriate post grad clinical education
- Completion of Clin Ed Course
Desirable criteria
- MCSP
- MSc
- Active participant in relevant interest group
- Leadership Experience
Skills and knowledge
Essential criteria
- The ability to discuss the clinical reasoning process in the management of complex cases
- The ability to identify and act upon adverse clinical signs
- The ability to demonstrate critical appraisal skill
- The ability to facilitate reflective practice and learning with others
- The ability to manage personnel issues
- Good communication skills both verbal and written when interacting with members of the team, other professionals, patients and their families
- The ability to lead and work effectively in a team environment
- Evidence of initiative, organisation and time management skills
- The ability to discuss the ethos of clinical governance and its implementation in specific physiotherapy practice
- The ability to lead discussion on the NHS and the challenges facing the physiotherapy service with specific reference to matters relating to ABUH
- Knowledge of relevant national and local clinical guideline
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development sufficient to meet HCPC requirements
- The physical ability to perform and cope with all aspects of manual handling as demanded by the job role
- Professional appearance
- The ability to adapt to changes in work routine
- Available for on-call and seven day working rotas where appropriate
- The ability to travel between sites within the Health Board or patients’ residences in a timely manner to meet the requirements of the pos
Desirable criteria
- Awareness of research principles and findings and the impact on clinical practice
- IT literate • Ability to speak Welsh
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.
Welsh language skills are desirable
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Sarah Roberts
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
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Clinical Lead Children's & ALD Physiotherapy
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