Job summary
- Main area
- Paediatric Physiotherapist
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 9 months (Maternity cover for 9 month minimum)
- Hours
- Part time - 18.75 hours per week (To provide cover on paediatric PT weekend and on call/twilight rota.)
- Job ref
- 153-ME05062
- Employer
- University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- University Hospitals Dorset - Poole Site
- Town
- Poole, Dorset
- Salary
- £47,810 - £54,710 per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 05/10/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Clinical Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist (hospital at home)
Band 7
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £250m estates programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women's Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support the preparation of their application. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of your own experience and suitability. Personal integrity is an important part of the recruitment process.
Job overview
We are looking for a highly motivated and experienced physiotherapist with a minimum of 5 years postgraduate and paediatric respiratory experience. This post gives an excellent opportunity to work as part of a specialised multi-disciplinary team who deliver the hospital at home paediatric virtual ward service.
We work closely with the multi-disciplinary paediatric team and colleagues working in social care, health and education services. We are committed to delivering high quality services for the children and families we work with in a child friendly manner.
Applicants must be car driver and owners.
This is a fixed term post covering maternity leave.
Main duties of the job
To lead and be responsible for managing the acute paediatric physiotherapy UHDCH@Home service. This service is provided to UHDCH@Home patients aged 0-16 years with a range of respiratory conditions alongside long term diagnosis.
Services will be delivered in a variety of settings, including; virtually, out patient clinics and in the child’s home as needed.
Experience of assessing, treating and managing children with respiratory conditions is essential.
Working for our organisation
Our values define who we are as #TeamUHD. They underpin everything we do now and in the future. They define how we treat our patients, visitors, and each other, our valued team mates and colleagues.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To lead and be responsible for managing the physiotherapy UHDCH@Home and caseload of paediatric patients for the catchment population using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement for highly complex decision-making holistically on behalf of the patient and the family.
- To work autonomously, using advanced knowledge and skills, underpinned by theory and experience, holistically assessing a defined patient caseload, using a range of methods across a broad range of complex medical and developmental paediatric conditions.
- To plan and manage episodes of care, working in partnership with Paediatric consultant and other specialists, delegating, and referring as appropriate, to optimise health outcomes and resource use, as well as providing direct support to patients and carers.
- To lead on developing, implementing, monitoring service / policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area / disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care UHD Approach, ensuring patients receive sustainable, high quality, safe, effective care.
- To work across all UHD sites and within the community.
- To be on the paediatric physiotherapy weekend, twilight and on call rotas as required.
- To deliver treatment in patient homes and community settings as required.
- To support the team, lead in all aspects of their service delivery plans and objectives, always supporting and deputising when required and requested by the team lead and their line management.
- To support the capacity guidance of UHDCH@Home hospital beds, ensuring respiratory is part of the overall bed capacity.
- Ensuring the patients documentation is in line with guidance of UHDCH@Home paperwork, including admissions, discharges, and all other applicable UHDCH@Home records.
- To co-ordinate the training of staff in paediatric respiratory conditions and PT techniques, ensuring staff are meeting the competencies for delivering this service.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • HCPC registration Physiotherapist BSC(Hons) or MSc in Physiotherapy
- • Post graduate course/s in respiratory management
Desirable criteria
- • Masters level Advanced Clinical Practice course/modules
- • Leadership / management course relevant to health care environment
- • Non-medical prescriber
- • HAPE course
Experience
Essential criteria
- • Long term ventilation experience either in the acute or community setting
- • Management of children with respiratory conditions
- • Experience of tracheostomy management.
- • Experience of airway clearance techniques e.g. cough assist
- • 5 years minimum as senior physiotherapist including experience in developmental paediatrics and neurodisability
- Audit Experience
- Working in NHS
Desirable criteria
- • Leading on managing change
- • Leading on Service and practice development
- Community Experience
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
- Josie Roberts or Emma Drever
- Job title
- Lead Nurse
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0300 019 3394
- Additional information
For queries about the PT role please contact: [email protected] (Clinical Specialist PT) Tel: 0300 019 8251
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