Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- 9 months (9 Month Fixed Term)
- Hours
- Part time - 12 hours per week (Monday- Friday)
- Job ref
- 388-7648320-CFHD
- Employer
- Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- John Parkes Unit
- Town
- Torquay
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 28/12/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Children’s Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
Job overview
At Children and Family Health Devon, we are dedicated to improving the physical and mental health of children and young people across Devon and Torbay. We aim to create an environment where children and young people can thrive and are committed to reducing health inequalities and providing specialised support.
We are looking for a specialist respiratory physiotherapist within the CFHD South community.
You will manage the paediatric respiratory physiotherapy pathway and hold a caseload of children with complex health conditions, delivering expert assessment, investigations and treatment.
Support a team of CFHD Physiotherapy staff, across Torbay and South Devon to deliver respiratory care for children with complex health conditions.
Strive to prevent admission by improving home care, and when needed providing in-reach care to enable early discharge.
Main duties of the job
To work with the acute physiotherapy team to facilitate early discharge for children with complex disability and respiratory conditions and to hand over for on call at the weekends and evenings.
Providing support for children and families for them to manage their respiratory conditions at home
Working for our organisation
Our children and young people say
“We would like the people who work for Children and Family Health Devon to be understanding, patient and respectful. They should be trustworthy and make us feel safe and comfortable. It is important that they use their skills and experience to listen carefully in a non-patronising and non-judgemental way. When staff are positive and friendly, they help to create an environment that is informal and without pressure.
We are an alliance of NHS organisations led by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust in partnership with Devon Partnership Trust. We are a group of professionals including psychologists, psychiatrists, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and many other professions.
Important Information Regarding Service Changes
We are currently entering into a formal consultation process to move all Children and Family Health Devon (CFHD) staff to a single provider. As part of this process, staff currently employed by Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust will transfer to Devon Partnership NHS Trust on 1 April 2026. Please note that this may result in some differences in recruitment documentation and processes during this transition period.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Working in liaison with paediatricians, community nursing and acute hospital staff to provide rapid response to prevent admission
Work with the acute physiotherapy team to facilitate early discharge for children with complex disability and respiratory conditions and to hand over for on call at the weekends and evenings
Provide clinics alongside for children with primary respiratory disorders
Provide expert respiratory input to neurodisability and neuromuscular pathways
Working with CFHD physiotherapy staff to identify and refer children with complex needs onto the respiratory pathway To act as a source of expertise on their specialist clinical area
Advocate on behalf of CYP and to be at the forefront of clinical development within their specialist clinical area.
Lead the paediatric respiratory physiotherapy pathway
Old deliver excellent care including developing extended scope assessment, investigation, diagnostic and treatment skills for a caseload of children with neurodisability, neuromuscular and chronic respiratory conditions
Maintain electronic diary of own work and the team, to allow booking and rescheduling appointments by others.
Perform advanced Physiotherapeutic assessment of children who present with developmental problems, long term conditions and may have severe communication impairment, learning disability, complex and severe physical and sensory disability.
Use advanced questioning and communication, manual assessment techniques and clinical reasoning skills to provide a diagnosis and prognosis enabling the delivery of an individualised physiotherapy treatment programme. This includes the appropriate selection of referrals for inclusion in a range of treatment and management options, including neuro developmental, manual therapy, hydrotherapy, the provision of specialist equipment and orthotics.
Supervision takes the form of annual appraisal with line-manager plus planned management supervision, clinical supervision on a planned regular basis. Clinical work is not routinely evaluated. Access to advice and support is available from peers, the paediatric team and clinical manager.
Lead on implementation of Care Pathways and specific changes/development of evidence based practice.
Provide clinical mentorship to senior physiotherapy staff. To coordinate the training needs for registered and unregistered physiotherapy staff to maintain clinical competencies. To participate in research projects and audit to develop the teams highly advanced clinical skills.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Physiotherapy Degree or Graduate Diploma
- • Registration with HCPC
Desirable criteria
- • Masters degree in related subject
- • AHP prescriber
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- • Advanced clinical management of care pathway
- • Sound knowledge of child development
- • Evidence of advanced training in respiratory and ventilation care
- • Evidence of audit and quality improvement training
Skills
Essential criteria
- • Effective team leadership skills including triage, line management and clinical supervision
- • Experience of safeguarding vulnerable adults and/or children
- • High level of knowledge of a broad range of relevant conditions and proven experience of delivering evidence based practice.
- • Knowledge of the clinical guidelines, and experience of implementing these recommendations in practice.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Louise Richardson
- Job title
- Clinical Team Manager for Children's Physiotherapy
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07971 246594
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