Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 6
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 319-7898498RW
- Employer
- Northumbria Healthcare - NHCT Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Riverside Family Hub
- Town
- North Shields
- Salary
- £39,959 - £48,117 pro rata per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/04/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Specialist Physiotherapist
Band 6
Do you want to work in one of the best performing NHS organisations in England? Work for an organisation that was voted the best acute and combined acute and community trust in the country, based on the experience of its staff (NHS Staff Survey 2022). Work in an organisation that supports its staff and focuses on staff experience as much as it does the experience of its patients? You can live and breathe in an area that has the cleanest air, cost effective living, great nightlife, some of the best schools with a wealth of history available on your doorstep. Sound too good to be true? Well it isn’t, this is what you get when you work for Northumbria Healthcare and, this is…the Northumbria Way!
What the Northumbria Way means for you:
- Extensive staff health and well-being programme including access to our specialist Wellbeing Hub
- Support and connection through a variety of Staff Network groups
- A range of flexible working opportunities
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Access to lease car and home electronics scheme (qualifying criteria applies)
- Opportunities to improve your professional development through our vast training programmes
- Access to savings scheme via salary sacrifice with Northumberland Community Bank
We work closely with Kids First Nurseries that are based within our trust grounds at Wansbeck, North Tyneside and Hexham hospitals to care for our Trust family's children, they offer care for children from 6 weeks old up to 4 years. There are a number of funding options run by the government to help working parents, including Early Years Funding and Tax Free Childcare.
Flexible working offers choice in where, when, and how we work, ensuring patients remain at the heart of all we do. It’s open to everyone, and we aim to find solutions that work for both you and the organisation. All arrangements must be reasonable and balanced to maintain safe and effective patient care.
We are proud to be one of the country’s top performing NHS trusts – rated ‘outstanding’ overall by the Care Quality Commission (CQC). We provide a range of health and care services to support more than 500,000 people living in Northumberland and North Tyneside across the largest geographical area of any NHS Trust in England. Our teams deliver care from hospitals, a range of community venues and people’s homes. Our hospitals include a specialist emergency care hospital (the first of its kind in England), three general hospitals and community hospitals. In the community we deliver a wide range of community and public health services.
We lead in innovation and quality, having opened the Northumbria Healthcare Manufacturing and Innovation Hub during the Covid-19 pandemic and have recently launched our Community Promise – a pledge to make a real impact not just in healthcare but on the wider factors that affect people’s lives, such as education, employment and the economy.
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Job overview
We are seeking to appoint a dynamic and motivated Physiotherapist with excellent communication and organisational skills, who is keen to progress within the area of Paediatric Physiotherapy. They should have proven experience working independently and as part of a team. Previous experience in paediatrics would be beneficial, but is not essential. We offer regular in-service training and support and supervision.
Our service provides care to children and young people throughout Northumberland and North Tyneside. Although the post holder will be based in North Shields they will be expected to work in other areas of the trust as the needs of the service commands. The role will include the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of children who present with physical difficulties due to both short and long term conditions, some highly complex.
The service provides expert assessment, treatment and advice to children and young people, from birth to 16 years or until 19. We educate and support families, carers and other professionals, including school and early years settings staff, in meeting the needs of the children and young people. We treat the children and young people in the environment which is most suitable to meeting their needs. These environments include, homes, nurseries, clinics, and schools.
Please note we reserve the right to close this vacancy prior to the closing date once the required number of suitable applications have been received.
Main duties of the job
To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients.
To undertake a comprehensive assessment of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/multi-pathologies; use advanced clinical reasoning and problem solving skills
To participate in holistic multi-disciplinary assessments as required to determine client needs.
To follow clinical risk management processes within own patient caseload.
To formulate, deliver and provide advice and training on evidence based intervention/ treatment programmes, including advice to carers, other professionals and agencies.
To raise any clinical concerns about patients with line manager/specialist physiotherapists in a timely manner and be willing to seek support from senior staff
To liaise and work with other professional agencies to ensure the correct and safe service provision is delivered for clients.
To maintain and develop own competency to practice through Continuing Professional Development activities
Maintain registration with the Health Professional’s Council.
To fully participate in the Trust’s appraisal system review and personal development planning process
Participate in clinical supervision and peer review
To be involved in supporting staff from Band 5 and below as well as student education.
To take part in and contribute to in-service training and keep your own Personal Development plans up to date
Working for our organisation
We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state-of-the-art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.
We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them to live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To assess, diagnose and treat an independent clinical case load.
- To work as part of the Paediatric Physiotherapy team under the guidance and support of more experienced highly specialist senior Physiotherapy staff.
- To provide a comprehensive physiotherapy service to children and young people throughout the area covered by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in many environments including homes, schools and clinic settings.
- To role model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust. This means demonstrating a consistent leadership style which (a) engages, enables and empowers others (b) uses coaching to promote
ownership of learning and quality improvement and (c) facilitates team working and collaboration within teams / departments and across organisational boundaries. - The ability to travel independently is an essential part of this post.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSC Honours degree in Physiotherapy or equivalent experience and/or qualification
- Registered Physiotherapist with the Health and Care Professions Council.
- Evidence of continued professional development through self directed learning, in-service training record and attendance at relevant short post graduate courses.
Desirable criteria
- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy
- Student training qualification provided by University
Experience
Essential criteria
- Candidates should have completed their post graduate core rotations.
- Evidence of developing neuro-muscular handling skills
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of or experience in coaching and mentoring practices and tools
- Knowledge of or experience in Quality improvement tools, techniques and methods
Other requirements
Essential criteria
- It is an essential requirement of the role that the post holder has a valid driving licence and is either a car owner and able to use the car for work purposes, or has a Trust personal lease vehicle which may be used for the role. However, the Trust would consider making reasonable adjustments to the role, if necessary, to enable a disabled person to undertake the role.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Fiona Blacklock
- Job title
- Principal Physiotherapist (Manager) - Paediatrics
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0191 219 6714
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