Specialist Physiotherapist: Children's acute

Children’s Physiotherapy Service

The Children’s Physiotherapy Service is based at St Mary’s Hospital. It provides comprehensive acute services across paediatric and neonatal inpatients, children’s musculoskeletal outpatients and is contracted by CLCH to provide Children’s Physiotherapy community services to North Kensington and Chelsea and Central and North Westminster localities.

Role Overview

This post holder has a clinical leadership role with specific responsibility for the development and provision of physiotherapy services within Children’s Intensive Care (PICU) and acute paediatrics, including the training and development of staff.

Responsibilities

• Provide services to the 15 bedded Children’s Intensive Care Unit, specialist paediatric services e.g. Infectious Diseases, Haematology, Neurology, Trauma, and 2 children’s wards admitting children with a variety of conditions: respiratory, orthopaedic, surgical and neurological.
• Work closely with the acute and community teams to provide continuity of care for children living within the area.
• Refer children to the acute Children's Physiotherapy team in the designated Paediatric Accident & Emergency department.

Key Accountabilities

• Be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including management of patients in your care and undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
• Plan and organise time efficiently and effectively with regard to patient management and use of time.
• Be accountable for the designated area of work.
• Flexibly manage responsibilities for own complex caseload, service delivery and teaching commitments.
• Decide priorities for own work, balancing other patient related and professional demands and ensure that these remain in accordance with those of the teams as a whole.
• As a lead member of the department, ensure teaching programmes and clinical education / supervision meet the needs of more junior staff’s education and development to ensure that a specialist knowledge of intervention is acquired at all levels.
• Develop and conduct local in-service and MDT training.
• Promote a culture of research awareness, research preparedness and activity in the team.
• Take a lead in the development of the specialist clinical area/team and develop objectives and support prioritisation of projects for the team.
• Ensure own and direct reports’ Personal Development Plans (PDP) are in line with therapies and trust objectives.
• Maintain, develop and update specialist knowledge and own competency to practice through Continuous Professional Development (CPD) activities.