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Whittington Health NHS Trust
About
Whittington Health NHS Trust aims to help local people live longer and healthier lives by providing safe, personal, coordinated care for the community we serve.
We provide hospital and community care services to 500,000 people living in Islington and Haringey as well as other London boroughs including Barnet, Enfield, Camden and Hackney. As one organisation providing both hospital and community services, we are known as an ‘integrated care organisation’.
We have an income of £350 million and over 4,400 staff delivering care across north London.
Our priority is to provide the right care, at the right time and in the right place for our patients. We provide a large range of services from the hospital, including accident and emergency (A&E), maternity, diagnostic, therapy and elderly care. We also run services from 30 community locations in Islington and Haringey. Over the past year we have reviewed and developed services to make them stronger and better support the needs of patients.
As an integrated care organisation we bring high quality services closer to home and speed up communication between community and hospital services, improving our patients’ experience. Key to our approach is partnering with patients, carers, GPs, social care, mental health and other healthcare providers.
Our organisation has a highly-regarded educational role. We teach undergraduate medical students (as part of UCL Medical School) and nurses and therapists throughout the year, alongside providing a range of educational packages for postgraduate doctors and other healthcare professional.
Contact
- Address
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
- Magdala Avenue
- London
- N19 5NF
Children's Physiotherapist
Accepting applications until: 27-Apr-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 27-Apr-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Gwefan
- Tynemouth Road Health Centre
- Cyfeiriad
- 24 Tynemouth Road
- Tref
- London
- Cod post
- N15 4RH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (18.75 hours per week)
- Oriau
- Full time
- Part time
Salary
- Cyflog
- £45,953 - £54,254 pro-rata per annum Including Outer HCAs
- Cyfnod cyflog
- Yearly
- Gradd
- (NHS AfC: Band 6)
Specialty
- Prif leoliad
- Physiotherapy
Please note in order to progress your application, your data will be processed by our 3rd party recruitment providers – North London Partners Shared Service, who conduct recruitment activities on behalf of Whittington Health NHS Trust.
For our current apprenticeship vacancies, please go to https://www.gov.uk/apply-apprenticeship and use Keyword ‘Whittington’
By applying for this role, you accept in the event you are successful that your personal data may be transferred from the Trust to another NHS organisation where your employment transfers within the NHS. This is in accordance with the streamlining programme which is aimed at saving you time and improving efficiencies within the NHS when your employment transfers.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is a set of technology that can perform various tasks that typically required human intelligence. Your application is your opportunity to demonstrate to us how you meet the requirements of the role.
We recognise that AI tools can support accessibility, equity and confidence for applicants. However, it’s important that examples and responses genuinely reflect your own experience and abilities, as these will be explored further during the selection process. AI must not be used to provide misleading or false information during any stage of the application journey.
Further guidance can be found in the NLPSS Applicant Toolkit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
Whittington Health NHS Trust is committed to fair and transparent recruitment and requires applicants to provide accurate information, as misleading details may affect their application or employment and may be verified in line with the Fraud Act 2006. For further information please visit https://royalfree.pagetiger.com/cuuomnr/1.
Trosolwg o'r swydd
This is a fixed term, part time opportunity for 12 months. This role is a frontline clinical role delivering specialist physiotherapy assessment and intervention to babies and children in the community in the London Borough of Haringey. The post holder will deliver care to children and young people from infancy up to 18 years of age in a range of settings. You will work as part of a physiotherapy team which sits within a wider MDT and multiagency framework.
The team takes pride in enabling children to achieve better outcomes by delivering evidence based and compassionate care.
Interviews for this post will be face to face .
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- To provide assessment and physiotherapy intervention to children and young people in a range of settings in collaboration with the child, family and other professionals.
- To document patient care accurately and in accordance with professional and trust guidelines.
- To safeguard children within the scope of the role.
- To engage in quality improvement
- To engage in CPD to improve your own practice and the service offer.
- To train and develop other staff.
- To engage in research where appropriate,
- To provide cover when other members of the team are unavailable.
- To report incidents and near misses in line with trust processes.
Gweithio i'n sefydliad
Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trust believes that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.
Swydd-ddisgrifiad a phrif gyfrifoldebau manwl
To carry a personal clinical caseload maintaining a high level of professional competence and demonstrate developing clinical expertise.
To undertake comprehensive assessment of children with complex developmental, neurological and specialist orthopaedic conditions. Investigative and analytical skills should be used to formulate individualised management and treatment plans incorporating a wide range of treatment skills and using clinical reasoning.
To provide physiotherapy treatment of children using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options and provide ongoing treatment programmes.
To provide specialist advice and assessment for the provision of appropriate aids and equipment and monitor their use.
To administer specialist standardised and structured assessments, interpret results and contribute to accurate diagnosis and prognosis within the team responsible for the child’s care.
To assess and treat individual children with complex needs, in their homes and school or clinic setting, working as part of the multi-disciplinary team, and liaising closely with education staff and parents/carers.
To use a range of communication strategies to overcome barriers to communicating e.g. language, communication difficulties or cognitive impairment and English as a second language, to engage and motivate the child and their family/carers in their Physiotherapy treatment.
To attend meetings necessary to co-ordinate multi-agency care of the child e.g. transition planning, child protection.
To make referrals to other services as required to meet the child or family’s identified needs.
To keep accurate and adequate records, and write reports and discharge summaries as required, ensuring that confidentiality and information-sharing standards are met as in Trust and professional standards.
To communicate complex clinical information and care plans to parents, carers, and staff in other agencies, for them to understand and carry out effective treatment or management of the child.
To establish relationships with community services and facilities, and to assist children and their families to make links with resources available to them.
To work effectively with clients, carers, and colleagues around individual case management, providing advice, guidance and support as necessary and involving them in the planning and prioritisation of care wherever possible.
To reflect on clinical practice; adequately identifying strengths & needs of clients, reviewing their response to therapy and providing evidence of sound clinical judgement.
To monitor and review the progress of children on caseload and facilitate the development or modification of packages of care / targets as appropriate using evaluation/outcome measurement tools.
To adapt practice to meet individual client/carer’s circumstances, considering cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
To produce accurate, & detailed reports, therapy programmes, advice and information as necessary in a timely manner.
To respond to the requirements of the 1996 Education Act, The Children’s and Families Act 2014 and the SEND Code of Practice (2015), by completing written advice for children who may have Special Educational Needs.
To refer children to other Health, Education or Social Services professionals as necessary.
To undertake home visits, as necessary, in compliance with Home Visiting Safety Policy
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIP SKILLS:
To be able to gather information that may be sensitive or complex and analyse it as part of a full assessment of a client’s strengths and difficulties.
To work closely with clients and carers using empathy, tact, reassurance and active listening to complete assessments, discuss results, and agree treatment options.
To develop skills in motivating clients/carers to engage in the therapeutic process.
To negotiate and manage conflict effectively in a range of settings, with support and supervision from line manager.
To deal with initial complaints sensitively, avoiding escalation where possible
To form effective therapeutic relationships with clients and/or carers who may be under stress and/or having challenging behaviour.
To provide training to a variety of audiences on aspects of physiotherapy.
KNOWLEDGE, TRAINING & EXPERIENCE:
To identify own training needs as part of the Professional Development Review and in supervision with the Band 7 physiotherapist.
To keep up to date with current clinical developments through reading, attendance at courses, meetings and Specific Interest Groups
To attend clinical supervision
To maintain up to date professional registration at all times.
SAFEGUARDING CHILDREN AND ADULTS
To comply with the Trust’s Safeguarding Children and Adults policies, procedures and protocols. All individual members of staff (paid or unpaid) have a duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults This will require you to:
- Ensure you are familiar with and comply with the London Child Protection Procedures and protocols for promoting and safeguarding the welfare of children and young people.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with the London Multi Agency Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults Pan London Procedures.
- Ensure you are familiar and comply with local protocols and systems for information sharing.
- Know the appropriate contact numbers and required reporting lines.
- Participate in required training and supervision.
- Comply with required professional boundaries and codes of conduct
Whittington Health is committed to safeguarding all children and vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
Your application form –
- Provide only business email address for your referees – we are unable to request references from yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail accounts.
- Make sure you to include all evidence of where you meet the essential requirement on the jobs description as this forms the base of our shortlisting criteria.
Our processes –
- Closing dates are given as a guide; we are within our right to close adverts early so please ensure you submit your application as soon as possible to avoid delay.
- If you do not hear from us up to 3 weeks after the closing date of the job unfortunately this means you have not been successfully shortlisted for interview. If your require feedback on your application please contact the appointing manager detailed in the body of the advert.
- Please check your emails regularly as all correspondence from us will be via trac.systems – occasionally these emails will go into your Junk folder.
- Employment at Whittington Health is offered subject to successful completion of a 6 month probationary period for all staff with the exception of GMC Registered Doctors.
Other important information –
- Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. Before submitting your application and to avoid disappointment please check that you are eligible under the UKVI points based system.
- Applications are welcome from people wishing to job share or work flexible patterns. We are committed to equal opportunities.
- In submitting an application form, you authorise Whittington Health NHS Trust to confirm any previous NHS service details via the Inter Authority Transfer (IAT) process should you be appointed to the post.
If you are offered a role with one of the NLPSS partner trusts, as part of pre-employment checks your identity and right to work documentation will be verified remotely (in most circumstances), using a certified identity verification service provider TrustID. You will be asked to capture an image of the relevant documents as well as a “selfie” using your smartphone/tablet (if available) for facial matching. TrustID will also perform a digital address check using Trunarrative and Equifax, which is a soft check and does not leave a footprint on your credit rating. For more information, visit www.trustid.co.uk
Please note that during the recruitment process your Identity Documentation (i.e. passport, driving licence, visa, etc.) will be scanned using a device which recognises UV, Infrared and Machine Readable Zone security features of the documents provided
The Trust uses electronic new starter forms on Trac to collect personal details. Information collected is securely stored and used to set up the employee record on the ESR HR system.
We would welcome applications from individuals who are from underrepresented groups in the organisation
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications and Training
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Degree in Physiotherapy
Meini prawf dymunol
- Post graduate qualification in paediatrics (MSc, PGCert, Diploma)
- UK Safeguarding Children Training
- CPIPS Trained with User ID
- Training in any of the following: AIMS, HINE, Bayleys, MABC, Prechtl
Experience
Meini prawf hanfodol
- At least 18 months post graduation experience in a Band 5 post
Meini prawf dymunol
- Completion of a paediatric placement as a student or completion of a Band 5 rotation in paediatrics
- Experience working with children with disabilities either as a student, Band 5 or in another post or voluntary position
- At least 6 months experience of working in a Band 6 post within the NHS or equivalent
Knowledge of Assessment
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Can undertake a comprehensive subjective and objective physiotherapy assessment
- Can use a standardised assessment
- Can analyse the assessment findings to identify strengths and areas of deficit and reflect this in the documentation
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has used one or more named paediatric standardised assessments
- Can use a recognised framework to assess a child holistically
- Can assess a child for equipment
- Can assess a child for orthotic intervention
- Can undertake a joint assessment with another member of the MDT
Intervention
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Can identify appropriate, evidence based interventions for a patient with neurological impairments
- Can identify appropriate interventions for patients with MSK conditions
Meini prawf dymunol
- Can describe main physiotherapy interventions for a child with a neurological disorder
- Can describe how to progress an intervention for a child
- Can describe how to evaluate an intervention
- Demonstrates holistic approach to interventions
Knowledge of child development
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Has knowledge of normal child development inc. gross and fine motor, language and social development
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has completed training on child development
- Can describe normal sequences of gross motor development
- Has experience treating children with developmental delays
- Knows when children may show delays in areas such as speech, fine motor and social development
Knowledge of Disabilities
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Has basic knowledge of common paediatric presentations such as cerebral palsy, neuromuscular conditions and musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions.
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has experience treating a child with cerebral palsy, orthopaedic or msk conditions.
Safeguarding
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Can demonstrate knowledge of own responsibilities in safeguarding children
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has completed safeguarding children training
- Has been involved in safeguarding processes with an adult or a child
Audit and quality Improvement
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Can explain what clinical governance means
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has undertaken QI project and can explain the processes involved
Communication
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Has clear spoken and written English
- Can present written information clearly, concisely, and logically
- Evidence of writing progress notes, reports and e-mails in line with HCPC standardss
Meini prawf dymunol
- Has experience writing advice or reviews for EHCPs
Developing oneself and others
Meini prawf hanfodol
- Can evidence commitment to CPD which includes reflective practice
- Has supervised students or assistant staff
Further details / informal visits contact
- Enw
- Stephanie Hynes
- Teitl y swydd
- Lead for Children's Physiotherapy
- Cyfeiriad ebost
- [email protected]
- Rhif ffôn
- 07776472197
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