Job overview
To provide a high standard Physiotherapy service across Children’s Critical Care, assessing and treating acutely unwell children. This post holder will be expected to cover a mixed caseload of paediatric patients across various specialties within PCC and step down to the wards. The post holder is expected to work closely within the holistic team including Doctors, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Speech & Language Therapists and Play Therapists. This will also support the provision of the respiratory service within the Neonatal unit.
Main duties of the job
1. To provide an effective and efficient physiotherapy service to patients, including assessing, treating and delegating the changing workload within the Children’s Critical Care unit and across the paediatric wards.
2. Perform specialist assessment of patients including those with highly complex presentations, and from this formulates a diagnosis and treatment plan, which is carried out as an autonomous practitioner.
3. Maintain a clinical caseload of highly complex patients including acutely ill respiratory patients (with / without ventilatory support) in Childrens Critical Care.
4. Provide cover and support to the neonatal unit for acutely ill pre-term/ term infants with or without ventilatory support.
5. Partake in the supervision, teaching and appraisal of junior physiotherapists and physiotherapy students, including the appropriate teaching component of the on-call competency programme.
6. Plays an active role in service development within acute paediatrics.
7. Assists in the operational management and overall development of the Acute Paediatric team.
8. Supports the team leader and undertakes delegated responsibilities.
9. Supervises, initiates and participates in evidence-based projects within Paediatrics, in conjunction with the Band Team Leader. Assists with implementing changes within designated area and setting and monitoring standards of practice.
10. To be aware of and operate within specific legal and national frameworks in relation to the care of children. The Children Act
Working for our organisation
Our friendly and vibrant Children’s Therapy and Gait team consist of approximately staff working across professional groups (physiotherapy, occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, dietitians, healthcare scientists). Together we offer a mix of inpatient and outpatient services to our patients across sites (Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre,, John Radcliffe Hospital, Douglas House, Horton General Hospital. to provide world-class collaborative multi-disciplinary care. We are fortunate to work within a large teaching Trust housing many tertiary and regional clinical specialities which encourages staff development, research and quality improvement initiatives.
Children’s Therapies sits within the NOTSSCaN division within Oxford University Hospital’s NHS Foundation Trust. There is a strong learning ethos, and the team regularly host students across all professional groups in addition to supporting continual professional development of its staff.
We are keen to talk to you if you reflect or aspire to our core values - excellence, compassion, respect, delivery, learning and improvement.
Benefits of working for us include career development and regular supervision, staff recognition and excellence schemes and wellbeing support. We are committed to equality, diversity and inclusion as we know this leads to better patient care and a happier workforce. We will consider applications to work flexibly, part-time or job share.