Senior Physiotherapist

The closing date is 29 October 2025.

We have an exciting opportunity for a qualified physiotherapist to join our Children's Therapy Service working in our West Lancashire Team. We are looking for enthusiastic and forward-thinking Physiotherapists looking for their next challenge. This post is suitable for somebody already working as a Band 6 in paediatrics or an experienced Band 5 physiotherapist who has a real desire to learn, transfer and develop their skills in Children's Therapy.

The Children's Therapy Service is a community service that is commissioned for ages 0-19. We provide opportunities to develop skills and experience in four specialist pathways in MSK, Early Years, Coordination Difficulties and Long Term Conditions, all of which are driven by strong clinical leadership. We operate across a variety of community settings including special and mainstream schools, clinics, and within a home setting.

To work as part of the Children's Therapy Service providing physiotherapy for children referred for assessment and intervention.

To be responsible for a caseload of children and young people with complex and/or additional needs.

To undertake comprehensive assessment of children and young people with varied presentations, using self-determined investigative and analytical skills, to formulate hypotheses in order to determine appropriate interventions and goals.

To establish individualized management and treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilizing a range of evidence based treatment skills and options to formulate interventions and programmes of care.

To participate in the co-ordination, development and delivery of training programmes and information packages for colleagues in health, education, social care, and voluntary sector organizations, and parents/carers.

To participate in identifying service development needs and delivering service development projects.

To engage with and support Clinical leads within professional development activities.

To provide specialist advice to Team Colleagues in area of own practice regarding specific service delivery issues.

To provide clinical and management supervision to junior colleagues.

Lancashire & South Cumbria NHS Foundation Trust provides a range of services including secondary mental health care across this area. Specialist provision comprises inpatient child and adolescent mental health services, perinatal mental health and forensic services including low and medium secure care. The Trust also provides a range of physical health and well-being services in the community alongside a range of partners in the Lancashire, Cumbria and Sefton area.

Lancashire & South Cumbria Foundation Trust encourages flexible working, we believe that a positive work/life balance benefits NHS employees through improved health and wellbeing. We would consider working patterns such as term time, part time, compressed hours, flexi-time and career breaks. We encourage applicants to state clearly on their application forms this request and discuss these options at interview.

Please see the attached job description and person specification for more information about this role.

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• Professional Degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy
  
• Current Professional Registration with HCPC
  
• Evidence of continued professional development
  
• Evidence of formal training / self-study / specialist experience to post graduate level
  

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• Understanding of clinical governance framework & implications for practice, including audit and research governance
  
• Knowledge of a broad range of assessment tools for children with diverse needs.
  
• Knowledge of a range of therapy techniques and programmes for children with diverse needs/ related to client group
  
• Knowledge of research, evidence-based practice and current issues relating to client group
  
• Knowledge of professional clinical local and national guidelines.
  

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• Evidence of recent and relevant post graduate experience encompassing the specialist field of practice. that demonstrates an in depth knowledge of specialist area/transferable relevant skills
  
• Multi-disciplinary/multi-agency collaborative working
  
• Experience of working with children with complex needs and their families in community/non clinical setting
  
• Safeguarding of children and implementation of policy and procedures with evidence of training/updates
  
• Demonstrable evidence of improving and developing service and practice
  

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• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills both written and verbal
  
• Able to work independently as lead specialist.
  
• Ability to manage children with challenging behaviours
  
• Demonstrating good leadership skills
  

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.