Paediatric Physiotherapist

Employer East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site The William Harvey Hospital Town Ashford Salary £31,049 - £37,796 pro rata Salary period Yearly Closing 29/10/2025 23:59 Interview date 01/12/2025

This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and experienced Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join our Paediatric team on Padua Ward or Rainbow ward. As a multi-disciplinary team, we are working hard to ensure we give babies, children and their families the best possible care; keeping their needs firmly at the heart of everything we do. You would be responsible, alongside the Band 7 physiotherapist, for providing inpatient physiotherapy to a range of children with respiratory, orthopaedic and neurological caseload and managing complex discharges.

Are you a qualified physiotherapist with clinical post graduate experience working with children, and a passion to enhance respiratory knowledge and skills of the MDT and wider Physiotherapy Team? If so we would love to hear from you.

• Provide day to day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward.

As an autonomous practitioner to carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated and manage complex discharges.

To provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers.

To aid with teaching, supervision and appraisal of adult Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the speciality.

To adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies

• HCPC registered
• Previous experience of working as a qualified physiotherapist
• BSc/Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio
• Previous experience working with children
• CSP registered
• awareness of common respiratory and complex conditions in paediatrics

Please note that if you require a Certificate of Sponsorship to work in the UK you must declare this on your application form, even if you currently have a certificate of sponsorship or a work permit for another role and are already working in the country. Please note we are only able to sponsor candidates on a Skilled Worker Visa applying for roles Band 5 and above.

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