Specialist Physiotherapist School 12 m FTC
The role of Specialist Physiotherapist will provide specialist physiotherapy to children and young people accessing The Children’s Trust School and residential services.
You will provide high quality, evidence-based physiotherapy assessment and intervention to children and young people with neurodisabilities, neurodevelopmental and orthopaedic conditions and respiratory needs, within a multidisciplinary and multi-agency setting.
Our service delivery aims to promote outcome focussed interventions, safe care, function and participation of children and young people accessing home, school and community life. You will support the delivery of child and family focused, goal led interventions, working in collaboration with education, multi-agency and multidisciplinary teams.
Role Requirements
* Provide high quality, evidence-based physiotherapy provision for children and young people attending The Children’s Trust School, in partnership with other members of the Multidisciplinary Team and education services.
* Undertake specialist physiotherapy assessments of children with highly complex needs e.g. multiple co-morbidities, neurodisabilities, orthopaedic and chronic conditions, through standardised and non-standardised assessments and clinical observations.
* Devise suitable, individualised, 24hr physiotherapy programmes/strategies that fit within the child’s daily routine, whether to be carried out by parents or members of the Multidisciplinary Team; these should be monitored, evaluated and adjusted appropriately according to the needs of the child.
* Develop therapy goals, in collaboration with the child and family/carers, as well as the multidisciplinary and education teams, other health professionals and external agencies, to facilitate the participation of the child in their life skills.
* Develop, implement and monitor chest management and physiotherapy programmes.
* Liaise with external services and follow respiratory guidelines set by tertiary centres. Support the implementation of child specific respiratory physiotherapy management plans, and monitor how well they are working. Escalate any issues to Senior Physiotherapists or respiratory and medical teams that support with respiratory management.
* Use awareness of how a 24hr postural management programme impacts on the respiratory system, sleep pattern and the compliance to rehabilitation, in order to inform physiotherapy interventions, multidisciplinary care and therapy plans.
* Set outcomes as part of the child or young person’s annual review and Education, Health and Care Plans.
* Support the MDT and education teams with measuring short term targets, through using the IMpacts curriculum, therapy outcome measurement tools e.g. Goal Attainment Scaling (GAS).
* Teach, integrate and monitor physiotherapy interventions in the child’s environment, whether it is carried out by parents, school staff, therapy staff, nursing and care staff.
* Assess, and organise provision of necessary/ specialist therapy equipment and/or orthotics, liaising with external services where necessary. This may be loaned equipment for use at The Children’s Trust or recommendations of equipment for long-term use on return to home.
* Keep appropriate and accurate intervention records, fulfilling legal, professional and all other requirements of The Children’s Trust.
* Contribute to child related reports, including looked after children and annual review reports as required, and assist with the collation of these as required, in a timely manner and in line with organisational targets.
We welcome applications from all who share our ambition regardless of background. We will strive to ensure that any reasonable adjustments are made in respect of interview and working arrangements.
Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced Disclosure & Barring Service (DBS) check, which will disclose all unspent convictions and adult cautions and any spent convictions or adult cautions that would not be protected.
In accordance with statutory safeguarding and child protection guidance, online searches will be conducted for shortlisted candidates before interview. The online searches will be conducted by a person who is independent of the interview and selection process and will focus on relevant information returned via searches of the candidate’s name (and variations thereof). Social media searches will be limited to professional platforms such as LinkedIn. Any concerns relating to suitability for work with children and young people will be forwarded to the interview panel, for discussion during the interview.
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