CYPS Physiotherapist

The post holder will be a Band 7 Physiotherapist specialising in paediatrics and participating as a member of the Gloucestershire Children’s Physiotherapy team independently managing a specialised clinical caseload. This involves assessment, advising, planning, delivering and evaluating treatment for a complex caseload of children and their families. They will also co-ordinate a local team, as a locality lead, on a day-to-day basis taking responsibility for delegation, supervision, development and teaching.

The post holder will provide leadership within the Children’s Physiotherapy Service providing, co-ordinating, developing, auditing and evaluating the service ensuring it is evidence based and in line with Clinical Governance requirements.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the CYPS Physiotherapy Head of Service and other CYPS senior leads to deliver operationally efficient and effective services by providing strong operational leadership and ensuring alignment of physiotherapy service priorities with the Directorate and Trust priorities and values.

The post holder will work in collaboration with the CYPS Physiotherapy (PT) Head of Service and other CYPS senior leads to deliver operationally efficient and effective services by providing strong operational leadership and ensuring alignment of PT service priorities with the Directorate and Trust priorities and values.

• To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
• To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
• To undertake the comprehensive and accurate diagnostic assessment of children, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and advanced clinical reasoning skills
• To formulate individualised, specialised clinical management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care for use in both the home and school setting
• To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
• To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment/management outcomes
• To work to Trust, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and Association of Paediatric Chartered Physiotherapists clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored
  
  

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people’s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

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Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in the South West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in the South West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust’s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.
  
  

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate, indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Stacey Rees Job title: Head of Service, CYPS Physiotherapy Email address: [email protected] Telephone number: 07974 861126