Children and Young People’s Physiotherapy Team Lead

Join our dynamic Community Paediatric Physiotherapy Team! Are you ready to take on an exciting opportunity to lead a friendly and dynamic team? We are on the lookout for a highly experienced, passionate, and self-motivated senior physiotherapist to lead our comprehensive community physiotherapy service for children and young people (0 to 19) referred to our specialist service.

Based at the Children and Young People\'s Centre -- Kaleidoscope in Catford, we provide physiotherapy for the diverse population of Lewisham. You will be in charge of clinical and operational leadership, ensuring our service is high-quality, evidence-based, and cost-effective, aligning with national and local children\'s service agendas. In Lewisham, we emphasise a strong multidisciplinary and co-produced approach to working with children and young people. You will support and promote this, collaborating closely with other service leads and service users to enhance our local provision. Our team of 13 physiotherapists is committed to peer support and continuous professional development. The role offers you the chance to further develop your own clinical, organisational, and managerial skills.

• To provide clinical and operational leadership for the Children and Young People’s Physiotherapy Team ensuring service delivery aligns with the service specification, is evidenced based, value for money and in line with the national and local agenda for Children’s Services.
• To advise the directorate senior leadership team of service needs, demand and capacity, trends and influencing factors and proposing options for resolution.
• To deliver advanced physiotherapy assessment, intervention, and consultation for children and young people with complex acquired and developmental disabilities and social needs.
• To take a delegated lead working with the Associate General Manager and Head of Children and Young People’s Therapies to support the development and implementation of effective business, clinical and corporate plans as required by the service to ensure a child focused service is delivered.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for further details on the role.

Our People Are Our Greatest Asset. When We Feel Supported And Happy At Work, This Positivity Reaches Those Very People We Are Here For, The Patients. Engaged Employees Perform At Their Best And Our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) Initiatives Contribute To Cultivate a Culture Of Engagement. We Have Four Staff Networks, a Corporate EDI Team And a Suite Of Programmes And Events Which Aim To Insert The 5 Aspirations.

• Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
• Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
• Improving the experience of staff with disability
• Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
• Making equalities mainstream

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Ayman Jeraj; Job title: Interim AGM - Community CYP Specialist Services; Email address: ; Telephone number: