Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and enthusiastic Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our special schools team at Perseid Upper and Lower Schools.

The post holder will provide a specialist physiotherapy service for children and young people with severe and complex learning difficulties in the special schools, in accordance with the Service Level Agreement for Sutton Health and Care Alliance (SHC).

The post holder will contribute to the development of the special schools physiotherapy service for children and young people. They will plan and provide highly specialist physiotherapy assessment, advice and treatment to a defined caseload of children and young people with severe and complex needs.

They will work in partnership with the children and young people, their families and other professions and agencies, including school staff and the wider health team, to reduce the impact of these difficulties on the children's and young people's social and emotional development, their learning and their ability to participate in daily life.

They will work autonomously and without direct supervision and be accountable for their own actions.

St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group cares for a population of four million people in South West London and North East Surrey.

Our sites include St George's Hospital, one of 11 major trauma centres in the UK and the largest healthcare provider and major teaching hospital in the area;
St Helier Hospital, home to the South West Thames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, home to the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC).

After years of collaboration, our two Trusts became a hospitals group in 2021. While remaining as two separate Trusts, being a hospitals group will help us to collaborate more closely on research, and the development, education, and training of our 17,000-strong workforce.

Sutton Health and Care (SHC) was an innovative joint venture between local partner health and social care organisations, which sees community services fully integrated to support the delivery of a new model of care for the people of Sutton. Hosted by ESTH, the model ensures the breaking down of traditional organisational barriers enabling the provision of care to be wrapped around the patient.

We pride ourselves in having a highly dedicated team and offer a stimulating and dynamic working environment with a wide range of benefits and development opportunities.

• Provide a specialist level of clinical skill in paediatric physiotherapy
• Be responsible for a clinical caseload of children and young people attending Perseid special schools as identified by the service specification, managing a defined caseload independently and prioritising own workload to ensure effective service provision
• Use clinical assessments, interview and observational skills to determine physiotherapy needs of children and young people and effectively set goals and plan intervention
• Communicate complex assessment findings and treatment plans with clients, family, school staff and the wider community staff, dealing sensitively with distressing or emotional circumstances and being realistic about clients' and families' expectations
• Assess and treat individual children and young people with complex needs in school, their homes or clinical setting, working as part of a multidisciplinary team and liaising closely with education staff, parents/carers
• Provide written, typed and/or verbal reports and programmes to referrers and other agencies involved in the client's care and keep up to date records
• Provide written advice for Educational Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) and contribute to Annual Reviews
• Monitor the effectiveness of intervention through goal setting, outcome measures and evaluation of practice and to communicate these to the relevant parties
• Contribute to the development of information that enables family, school and the wider community to understand and self-manage the client's condition whenever possible
• Recommend, provide and advise on physiotherapy programmes to take responsibility for demonstrating their usage and training clients/carers or school staff, ensuring adequate carry-over of information to enable ongoing treatment programmes to be carried out in the client's environment. This may include, but is not limited to, positioning,…