Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist; Critical Care
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Exciting Opportunity for Experienced Physiotherapists
We are pleased to advertise this exciting opportunity for experienced Physiotherapists to join our Critical Care therapy team providing highly specialist assessment and intervention to children and young people on the critical care unit which includes ICU, HDU, the burns unit and cardiac ward.
The Critical Care Team
The critical care team includes a clinical specialist physiotherapist, highly specialist physiotherapists, a highly specialist occupational therapist and specialist rotational physiotherapists. The team manage the care of highly complex children and young people on the critical care unit as well as participating in education, governance and research activities on the unit and wider therapy service.
The Role
The successful candidate will join also our wider Integrated Therapy team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists and Assistant Practitioners across the acute and community services.
To be a team member of Alder Hey’s Paediatric Physiotherapy team and as such, carry a complex caseload across Critical Care, including PICU, HDU, cardiac wards, burns and neonates working in partnership with parents, carers education and other service providers to ensure a child centred approach to therapy.
To have responsibility for the delivery and co-ordination of high-quality Physiotherapy to children with a range of conditions and presentations in conjunction with the wider critical care team.
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To work as an autonomous practitioner without direct supervision utilising a high level of knowledge, developed through experience of working in Critical Care. Being responsible for the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of a highly specialist caseload; using specialist respiratory assessment skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions in patients within this specialty who have acute and long term, serious and terminal conditions.
To provide a range of specialist individualised therapeutic interventions, supporting children through provision of highly specialist advanced clinical reasoning, to provide formulate and deliver individual treatment plans. Delivering holistic highly specialist assessment of the child’s needs and providing treatment programmes to meet the child’s rehabilitation needs.
About Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is a provider of specialist health care to over 275,000 children and young people each year. Alder Hey has a presence in community outreach sites and, in collaboration with other providers, our clinicians help deliver care closer to patients’ homes by holding local clinics at locations from Cumbria to Shropshire, in Wales and the Isle of Man. The Trust also provides inpatient care for children with complex mental health needs at our Sunflower House building newly relocated, and opened on the hospital site.
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We currently have more than 4,000 staff working across our community and hospital sites. We’re also a teaching and training hospital providing education and training to around 540 medical and over 500 nursing and allied health professional students each year.
As black and minority ethnic (BME) employees are currently under-represented in this area, we particularly welcome applications from members of our BME communities. All appointments will be made on merit.
Benefits
You can expect a warm welcome at Alder Hey Childrens NHS Foundation Trust, our staff are friendly and welcoming. We listen to each other and work together to embed our Trusts values and behaviours. At Alder Hey we appreciate our staff and reward them with an outstanding benefits package including:
- Great flexible working opportunities
- Lease car scheme and Home Electronics Scheme
- Generous annual leave and pension scheme
- Extensive staff health and well-being programmes
Contact Information
For further details / informal visits contact:
- Name: Sarah Gregson
- Job title: Deputy Head of Service
- Email address: Sarah.gregson@alderhey.nhs.uk
- Telephone number: 0151 252 5660
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Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Critical Care
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