Children's Physiotherapist

Job Summary

Are you an experienced paediatric physiotherapist looking to make a meaningful impact in a flexible, supportive role? Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust is looking for a part-time Specialist Children's Physiotherapist to join our vibrant and dedicated team. In this pivotal role, you'll deliver physiotherapy services to children and young people across both outpatient clinics and inpatient care settings. This role is a secondment to cover maternity leave.

As a valued member of our multidisciplinary team, you'll help shape and deliver services that support children with a wide range of health conditions--empowering them to take an active role in their own health and wellbeing. You will be working alongside clinical specialist physiotherapists and advanced clinical practitioners.

This role offers
flexibility to meet the needs of both the service and the post holder
, making it ideal for those seeking a better balance between their personal and professional lives. Ideal working days:
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (Thursday is essential; some flexibility can be offered for the other days) 18.75 hours per week. Preferred structure to be spread across 3 days for optimal service delivery and work-life balance.
No weekend working is required as part of this role
.

• Provide high-quality physiotherapy to children and young people within both outpatient and inpatient settings. The key specialism for this role is musculoskeletal.
• Manage a personal caseload while contributing to the wider needs of the paediatric and new-born wards.
• Opportunities to participate in specialist multidisciplinary clinics, such as DDH (baby hip), orthotic, respiratory, rheumatology and neonatal.
• Offer guidance and supervision to Band 5 physiotherapists, therapy assistants and student physiotherapists.
• Collaborate with other professionals across our child health services to continually improve and develop our physiotherapy offering.
• Work in partnership with children and families to help them understand and manage their own health and wellbeing.
• This role offers flexibility to meet the needs of both the service and the post holder, making it ideal for those seeking a better balance between their personal and professional lives.

Please see attached job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust (SFT) is an innovative hospital with a proud heritage and over 250 years of experience behind us. Here we're driven to deliver an outstanding experience for everyone and have been well regarded for the quality of care and treatment we continue to provide for our patients and also our staff.

We are an acute Trust, rated 'Good' by the CQC, with a track record of high performance providing regional and super regional specialist services such as:
Burns, Plastics & Reconstructive Surgery, Wessex Regional Genetics Laboratory, Wessex Rehabilitation, Spires Cleft Centre and the Duke of Cornwall Spinal Treatment Centre. We have about 470 beds and employ over 4000 staff.

We support flexible working and will consider requests taking into account the needs of the service. We think working here is pretty rewarding. You can access a range of NHS discounts, receive a minimum of 35 days paid holiday (pro rata), and we offer a generous pension scheme. On-site benefits include car parking (fee applies), leisure centre, day nursery and holiday play scheme.

Salisbury is an attractive place to live and work and really gives you the best of everything. With easy access to London and local airports, the city of Southampton is only a short train or car journey away or if you prefer the sea, Bournemouth is also accessible. Don't just take our word for it, why not explore what Salisbury has to offer by visiting

Date posted: 29 January 2026

Pay scheme:
Agenda for change

Band:
Band 6

Salary: £38,682 to £46,580 a year per annum pro rata if part time

Contract:

Secondment

Working pattern:
Part-time

Reference number: 269-SFT
9585

Job locations:
Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Odstock Road, Salisbury, SP2 8BJ

Please see attached Job description and person specification for full details of roles and responsibilities.

Essential
Degree or Diploma in Physiotherapy and current HCPC registration
Evidence of post-graduate CPD training in the specialty of children s physiotherapy (1 mark per area)
Evidence of children s physiotherapy practice (B5/6 level) within musculoskeletal specialty
Evidence of children s physiotherapy practice (B5/6 level) within neurological or developmental specialty
Evidence of children s physiotherapy practice (B5/6 level) in a respiratory specialty

Desirable
Evidence of children s physiotherapy practice within both in-patient (1 point) and out-patient setting (1 point)
Evidence of teaching. 1 point for education to CYP and their families, 1 point for teaching to physios and/or MDT
Evidence of supervision of others, inclusive of…