Specialist Physiotherapist: Children's acute | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

The Children’s Physiotherapy Service is based at St Mary’s Hospital. It provides comprehensive acute services across paediatric and neonatal inpatients, children’s musculoskeletal outpatients and is contracted by CLCH to provide Children’s Physiotherapy community services to North Kensington and Chelsea and Central and North Westminster localities.

This post holder has a clinical leadership role with specific responsibility for the development and provision of physiotherapy services within Children’s Intensive Care (PICU) and acute paediatrics, including the training and development of staff.

The in‑patient Children’s Physiotherapy team provide services to the 15‑bedded Children’s Intensive Care Unit, specialist paediatric services e.g. Infectious Diseases, Haematology, Neurology, Trauma, and two children’s wards admitting children with a variety of conditions: respiratory, orthopaedic, surgical and neurological. Close working relationships exist between the acute and community teams in order to provide continuity of care for children living within the area. Children are referred to the acute Children’s Physiotherapy team in the designated Paediatric Accident & Emergency department.

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• To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
  
• To provide comprehensive and specialist therapy assessment and diagnosis for patients with a range of highly complex presentations, by utilising advanced clinical reasoning, evidence‑based knowledge, investigative and analytical skills and specialist assessment techniques.
  
• To plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time. To be accountable for the designated area of work.
  
• To flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments. To decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient‑related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the teams as a whole.
  
• As a lead member of the department, ensure teaching programmes and clinical education/supervision meet the needs of more junior staff’s education and development to ensure that a specialist knowledge of intervention is acquired at all levels. To develop and conduct local in‑service and MDT training.
  
• Promote a culture of research awareness, research preparedness and activity in the team.
  

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values – expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You’ll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.

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• Career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme.
  
• Optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.
  

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

This advert closes on Tuesday 17 Mar 2026.