Specialist Acute Paediatric Physiotherapist

Provide day to day Paediatric Physiotherapy service based at either William Harvey or QEQM Hospital. Alongside the Band 7 Physiotherapist, plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service on a day-to-day basis on the ward. Provide leadership to the Physiotherapy team within a team based structure as a specialist within the field of acute paediatric physiotherapy. As an autonomous practitioner to carry out assessment and treatment of a specialist caseload of patients within Paediatrics who may have complex and/or chronic presentation, and to determine clinical diagnoses and physiotherapy treatment indicated, and to maintain records. To provide specialist advice to other professionals both within the Trust and outside agencies e.g. GPs, carers. To be responsible for teaching, supervision and appraisal of Junior Physiotherapists and undergraduate students to ensure a high quality of clinical care within the speciality. To be jointly responsible for the

on-going paediatric training to inpatient physiotherapy colleagues working the on-call rota. To adhere to Trust policies and the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Code of Conduct and be guided by National Standards where they exist to develop departmental policies.