Band 6 Physiotherapist (Paediatrics)

HCRG Care Group


Date: 1 day ago
City: Epping, England
Contract type: Part time
Job Introduction

Join Our Team as a Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist – West Essex

We’re looking for a passionate and dedicated Band 6 Physiotherapist (Paediatrics) to join our Community Children’s Therapy Team in West Essex, covering Uttlesford, Harlow, and Epping Forest. This is a permanent, part-time role working 16 hours per week, based at St Margaret’s Hospital in Essex.

You’ll be a key part of our multidisciplinary team, providing physiotherapy assessment, diagnosis and treatment for children, and supporting them and their families with self-management and care. Therapy is delivered in clinics across West Essex, Monday to Friday, 9am–5pm – however, we offer hybrid working and flexibility on how your hours are worked across the week, which can be discussed further at interview.

Help us continue to make a positive difference to the children and families in our community.

Main Responsibility

As a Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist, your main responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

  • Contributing to departmental development and supporting key performance targets.
  • Providing expert advice on patient care to colleagues in health, social care, education, and the voluntary sector - including visits to homes, nurseries, mainstream and special schools, and specialist clinics.
  • Working closely with children, their parents/carers, and wider care teams to prioritise treatment goals, including for those with complex needs or terminal conditions.
  • Developing your knowledge and skills in managing a broad range of musculoskeletal and complex disorders, with support from senior colleagues.
  • Assessing, recommending, sourcing, and training patients and carers in the safe use of specialist equipment and orthotics in both home and school settings.
  • Supporting the learning and development of Band 5 physiotherapists and students.

For full details of the role, please refer to the attached job description.

The Ideal Candidate

We’re looking for someone who is:

  • A qualified Physiotherapist with current HCPC registration.
  • Experienced in working with children and young people, including the assessment and diagnosis of paediatric conditions.
  • Innovative and adaptable, with a flexible approach to working across specialities as service needs evolve.
  • Passionate about improving outcomes for children and young people within the local community.
  • A strong communicator with excellent organisation skills, committed to delivering positive experiences for patients and families throughout their care journey.
  • In possession of a valid UK driving licence and access to a car, as this is a community-based role.

Package Description

As a Band 6 Paediatric Physiotherapist you will be part of our valued team in our Community Children's Therapy Team in West Essex, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including: 

  • £37,338 - £44,962 (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
  • Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
  • Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
  • Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
  • Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
  • An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
  • The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

About The Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency, and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.

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