Paediatric Physiotherapist | East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust

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.

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• 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.
  

We are one of the largest hospital trusts in England, with five hospitals and community clinics serving a local population of around 800,000 people. Our vision is 'great healthcare from great people'. Everything we do is guided by our values: 'People feel cared for, safe, respected and confident that we are making a difference’. We have a new way of working at East Kent Hospitals, called 'We care'. It's about empowering frontline staff to lead improvements day-to-day. We're looking for compassionate people to be part of our improvement journey for the patients, families and carers we care for every day.

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.

The post holder will work alongside a band 7 paediatric physiotherapist and the rest of the child health MDT to provide physiotherapy assessment and treatment on the Acute EKHUFT Paediatric ward. This will include working alongside the MDT in discharge planning orthopaedic and children with complex needs. They will manage discrete aspects of a patient’s care in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, within their scope of practice, aligned to the four pillars of practice and aligned to Trust policy, ‘Enhanced, Advanced and Consultant Level Practice- Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals (AHPs),’ contributing to AHP practice which improves the quality of care to patients.

This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Oct 2025