Paediatric Inpatient Team Lead

Thank you for your interest in this role, we would be delighted to welcome you to Sherwood Forest Hospitals.

Sherwood is nationally recognised as being an excellent place to work and deliver care. We are rightly proud of the 5,500 colleagues who work here and know that happy colleagues deliver better care.

Our teams work in a supportive, inclusive environment, which nurtures wellbeing and has opportunities for development and progression. We do not just care for our patients, we also care for you.

At Sherwood Forest Hospitals, we are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace. As such, we particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic, or Disabled. We believe that a diverse team better represents the communities we serve and brings a wealth of perspectives and experiences to our work.

An exciting maternity cover opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our inpatient therapy team on a full-time, fixed-term basis for 9 months.

This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic clinician looking to further develop their specialist paediatric skills within a supportive multidisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will work within our inpatient paediatric service, providing high-quality physiotherapy assessment and treatment to infants, children, and young people aged 0-19 years.

This varied caseload provides an exciting opportunity to develop and maintain advanced clinical expertise across a broad spectrum of paediatric specialities.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dedicated and supportive team, making a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families.

If you are an enthusiastic and experienced paediatric physiotherapist looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you.

To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other.

We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as ‘outstanding’ for care and our King’s Mill Hospital as the only ‘outstanding’ NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

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