Job summary
- Main area
- Burns
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 6
- Contract
- 8 months (Fixed Term/ Secondment)
- Hours
- Full time
- Part time
- Job ref
- 284-25-7339925-DMUT-A
- Employer
- Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Birmingham Childrens Hospital
- Town
- Birmingham
- Salary
- £38,682 - £46,580 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/09/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Advanced Physiotherapist Burns
NHS AfC: Band 6
Flexible working arrangements may be considered and discussions with the recruiting manager regarding this are encouraged.
Job overview
To be a part of organising, co-ordinating and delivering a comprehensive physiotherapy service to children and young people within the burns service. This includes inpatient and outpatient care. You will be an important part of the wider burns MDT. This post holder will assist in providing supervision and training to a variety of professionals.
You will work as part of a team which also provides input to the inpatient trauma and orthopaedics.
Main duties of the job
Working for our organisation
Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust is the first of its type in the UK. Our Trust was formed in February 2017 to drive forward our commitment to provide the highest quality, world-class physical and mental health care for our women, children and families. Uniting our hospitals means more seamless care; more investment to make greater advances in our specialist treatment and world-leading neo-natal and fetal work. Importantly, it also gives us a greater voice in shaping the future of family-centred care.
Birmingham Children's Hospital is a UK leading specialist paediatric centre with an international reputation in several areas.
Birmingham Women's Hospital is one of two dedicated women's hospitals in the UK, with the busiest single site maternity unit, delivering more than 8,200 babies a year offering a full range of gynaecological, maternity and neonatal care.
Forward Thinking Birmingham (FTB) Mental Health Services are a unique, innovative community and inpatient mental health partnership. Alongside partners FTB offers care pathways of mental health assessment and treatment for young people aged 0-25 years old.
Our Trust is committed to creating the best place to work. We believe in promoting and enhancing inclusion, diversity and equality and encourage applications from all areas of the community, who meet the criteria for the role, regardless of age, gender identity, disability, race, religion or sexual orientation.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description and person specification to view the full details for this opportunity at Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust.
When completing your application, please ensure you have evidenced how you meet the job description and person specification to include transferable experience, qualifications, skills along with professional registration details (if applicable).
Occasionally we receive a large number of applications for our roles and when that happens we sometimes bring the closing date forward, so please apply promptly to avoid disappointment.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/ Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Professional registration as a Physiotherapist with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- Post registration courses/ qualifications in relevant subjects
Knowledge and nature of experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive broad-based post-graduate experience including burns care
- Enthusiasm to work in a paediatric setting
Desirable criteria
- Paediatric experience in a variety of settings
- Experience of supervising staff/students
Analytical and Judgement Skills
Essential criteria
- A good level of ability to clinically reason through complex patients
- Evidence of Multidisciplinary team working
- Evidence of good communication skills
Professional/Managerial/Specialist Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Ability to prioritise a caseload
- Ability to plan and participate in MDT working
- Willingness to participate in the out of hours rotas
Personal Skills/ Abilities and Attributes
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates desire to keep clinically updated and deepen interest in specialty
- Able to demonstrate the Trust values
- Able to demonstrate good communication skills
- Demonstrates professionalism and a positive attitude
- Demonstrate an understanding of equality, diversity and inclusion within this role
- Be punctual and flexible across hours of work when required
- Ability to manually handle patients and equipment
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have regular contact with vulnerable people and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Katie Harrison
- Job title
- Principal Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 01213339476
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