Main area Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Childrens Services Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Fixed term: 10 months (End date 31/3/2026) Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 391-NMUH-7328531
Employer Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Cedar House Town Enfield Salary £53,751 - £60,651 per annum including HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 07/08/2025 23:59
Paediatric Physiotherapy Universal Services
NHS AfC: Band 7
Our trust has over 17,000 staff serving 2 million patients every year. It comprises Barnet Hospital, Chase Farm Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, North Middlesex University Hospital and more than 30 services in the community. This larger scale organisation provides an unprecedented opportunity for us to continue our pioneering work, particularly in finding ways to deliver even better care to our patients.
Our mission is to deliver world class care and expertise in our clinical services, underpinned by world class teaching and research and we will continue to measure our progress against our five governing objectives: excellent outcomes, excellent patient and staff experience, excellent value for taxpayers’ money, being safe and meeting our external duties, and building a strong organisation.
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This is an exciting opportunity to be part of an innovative Physiotherapy project aimed at reducing inequalities in one of the most deprived areas of Enfield. The project will focus on improving outcomes for 0-5 year olds’ from identified high risk groups such as deprived areas.
The postholder will work within a multi-agency team with a range of health, early years, social care and voluntary sector professionals.
The postholder will have a role in the development, planning and provision of universal and targeted support strands for children at risk of developmental issues and concerns and their parents as well as the wider community support network.
Main duties of the job
· To continue to develop and extend the reach of universal services, delivering a model of early intervention and prevention to children and families from birth to 5 years from deprived backgrounds.
· To offer training, supervision and support to health visitors, early years practitioners, nursery staff and parent champion volunteers working on the project.
· To run intervention groups for parents/carers of children with identified as ‘at risk’ of early developmental delay.
· To continue to develop and improve project communication strategy, strengthening key partnerships with colleagues within health, education, voluntary and social care sectors.
· To work with the health visiting team and other professional groups in the private, voluntary and independent sectors to establish a clear and well-used referral pathway, offering guidance, training and support as required.
· To undertake screening and review assessments and to organise and run targeted intervention groups.
· To deliver and continue to improve on promotion and widespread uptake of an established training package to key partners within the early years sector.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
PATIENT/CLIENT CARE :
To safeguard and promote the welfare of children and work to agreed safeguarding children policies
To work alongside Early Years Practitioners to develop evidence-based interventions for individuals and groups experiencing difficulties with their child’s development and or difficulties in the carer/infant relationship
To provide expert advice to parents and carers regarding children’s development, and to promote healthy lifestyles to individuals and groups within the community
To develop innovative ways of working to deliver early intervention to vulnerable and hard to reach families and to modify these as appropriate using evaluation/outcome measurement tools
To work innovatively with other professionals, organisations and volunteer colleagues sharing knowledge and skills to enhance service delivery and client care
To adapt practice to meet individual client/carer’s circumstances, taking into account cultural and linguistic backgrounds and disabilities
To provide highly specialist support and short term intervention to families who have a child identified as being ‘in need’ involving them in their care planning, advocating on their behalf and signposting them to other services as appropriate
To work effectively with clients, carers, colleagues and education staff around individual case management, providing advice, guidance and support as necessary and involving them in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible
To produce accurate and detailed reports, therapy programmes, advice and information as necessary in a timely manner, reflecting clinical expertise. To refer children to other health, education or social services professionals as necessary
To undertake home visits as required.
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS:
To be able to gather information that may be highly sensitive or highly complex and to analyse it making a full assessment of a client’s strengths and difficulties.
To work closely with clients, carers, education staff and other professionals using empathy, tact, reassurance and active listening to complete assessments, discuss results, and agree treatment options
To discuss diagnosis and potential outcomes with parents/carers, Health and Local Authority colleagues, voluntary organisations, and work collaboratively in decision making regarding referral on and intervention
To provide training to a variety of audiences on aspects of motor co-ordination development.
To demonstrate highly developed skills in motivating clients/carers to follow health improving advice and to engage in therapeutic interventions as appropriate
To be responsible for communicating effectively with other Early Years professionals to provide an effective service
To negotiate and manage conflict effectively in a range of settings, with support and supervision from line manager in highly complex cases
To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible To form effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or carers who may be under stress and/or having challenging behaviour
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE:
To demonstrate highly specialist knowledge of developmental skills in children under 5 underpinned by current evidenced based practice and maintained through specialist courses and self-study
To demonstrate a particular interest in and willingness to undertake training in working with complex families with very young children
To identify own training needs as part of the Professional Development Review and Professional Portfolio
To attend further training as necessary to maintain and further develop the skill and knowledge required of a highly specialist physiotherapist.
To keep up to date with current clinical developments through reading, attendance at courses, meetings
To develop and deliver specialist training (informal and formal) to parents/carers education staff, and other professionals
To provide specialist advice to colleagues and junior members of the team
To maintain up to date professional registration with HCPC and RCPT at all times.
To participate in Peer/Clinical Support Group
To have a working knowledge of the Child Health Promotion Programme and the Early Years Foundation Stage Curriculum
ANALYTICAL & JUDGEMENTAL SKILLS:
To analyse complex information on all aspects of adult and child interaction and communication skills and identify the best treatment programme for each individual family
To understand the strengths and abilities of the child’s family when discussing and planning home-based intervention
To adapt intervention as necessary according to individual need, progress and ability
To seek second opinions from colleagues in highly complex cases and to provide second opinions for others including more junior members of the team
To refer children to other professionals as appropriate
To demonstrate the ability to reflect on clinical practice and decide on the most appropriate interventions
To develop, record and adapt individual care plans, based on assessment results and response to treatment.
To plan, adapt and target training to all levels of participants.
T o make joint decisions with other Early Years professionals analysing information provided by them
PLANNING AND ORGANISATIONAL SKILLS:
To plan and deliver training to parents/cares and health visiting staff as necessary.
POLICY/SERVICE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION:
To contribute to the development of team objectives or projects as required
To take a delegated lead in developing specific projects as required
To develop care policies and protocols for specific clinical areas
To advise line manager of issues of service delivery including staffing issues, service pressures etc.
To use highly specialist knowledge to contribute to service/policy development.
To be aware of and adhere to all Trust and Service policies To participate and contribute to innovations and developments in areas of risk management, Quality Standard Setting and Clinical Effectiveness
INFORMATION RESOURCES:
To keep up to date and accurate client case notes, which comply with quality guidelines/policies
To share information with others, observing data protection/information sharing guidelines
To keep and send in accurate statistics within the required time limits
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT:
To participate in and contribute to the development of innovations in the area of risk management, quality standards setting and clinical effectiveness
To participate in research/clinical audits as required.
FREEDOM TO ACT:
To be accountable for own professional actions and recognise own professional boundaries, seeking advice as necessary
To provide second opinions related to communication needs on cases as necessary
To work within defined departmental, professional and organisational protocols, policies and codes of conduct.
To plan, implement and evaluate own work, seeking advice as necessary from other specialist colleagues.
To participate in monthly supervision and annual performance review in accordance with Trust procedures.
To seek advice and second opinions as necessary.
Person specification
Education & Qualifications
* • Recognised Physiotherapy Degree
* • Highly specialist knowledge acquired through degree or equivalent qualifications, further theoretical training and experience in required speciality
* • HCPC Licence to Practice • Registered member of Royal College of Physiotherapy
* • Continued Professional Development evidenced by attendance at short specialist postgraduate courses to maintain and develop own specialist knowledge and expertise.
Skills & Abilities
* • Significant Early Years’ experience and high level clinical skills including assessment and diagnosis relevant to specialist area
* • Experience of developing service initiatives, particularly in universal services.
* • Experience of working with different professional disciplines and agencies
* • Experience of clinical supervision / mentoring to a wide range of staff .
Experience
* • In-depth knowledge of assessment tools relevant to the client group
* • In depth and expert knowledge of a range of appropriate therapeutic interventions (relevant to the client group) and an ability to compare and contrast relative benefits
* • Knowledge of NHS, Education and Early Years national policy and directives where these impact on area of specialism or service delivery
* • Knowledge of barriers to understanding & ability to explain complex issues simply
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Name Ellen Ford Job title Project Lead, Universal Therapy Services Email address Ellen.Ford2@nhs.net Telephone number 020 8702 6735 Additional information
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Lauren Braham (lauren.braham1@nhs.net)
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