Clinical Lead Physiotherapist - Acute Paediatric

at  Kings College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

We have an exciting opportunity for a highly specialist paediatric physiotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team at King’s.
The Paediatric Acute Physiotherapy service works across Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), wards and clinics including the management of inpatient and outpatient children on Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV). The successful postholder will provide leadership for all of the daytime acute respiratory, post-surgical, livers , trauma and orthopaedics and NIV patients as well as operational oversight of the overnight and weekend emergency respiratory physiotherapy services.
This is a key leadership role in a dynamic and specialist multi-disciplinary paediatric team working out of the Children’s Hospital at King’s in Denmark Hill. King’s is one of London’s Major Trauma Centres in and this is reflected in the acute paediatric caseload.
The postholder will be a physiotherapy clinical expert in the management of paediatric acute respiratory conditions including babies and children in PICU; medical respiratory conditions both acute and chronic; paediatric orthopaedic problems including fractures and trauma and post-elective surgery; paediatric patients following general surgery; children with liver disease and post liver transplantation; and Non-Invasive Ventilation (NIV) patients for both inpatient and outpatient paediatric physiotherapy services.
They will be responsible for clinical leadership and service development within the paediatric physiotherapy services at Kings College Hospital and shape these services appropriately to respond to growing & changing clinical landscapes and the development of more advanced care options
The postholder will be responsible for the operational management of the respiratory paediatric physiotherapy weekend and overnight emergency on-call services and manage the safety and governance of these services.
King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in Bromley.
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The postholder will deliver treatment based on advanced theoretical and practical knowledge including appropriate highly specialist skills and will provide supervision and clinical support to the inpatient acute paediatric physiotherapy team and students to meet individual and service needs. They will be responsible for clinical leadership and service development within the paediatric physiotherapy services at Kings College Hospital and shape these services appropriately to respond to growing & changing clinical landscapes and the development of more advanced care options
The postholder will be responsible for governance of the services and will develop & deliver paediatric physiotherapy as per NICE guidance and other relevant standards. They will work with other paediatric therapy teams to ensure a high quality, effective and efficient service to patients presenting with all types of conditions both acute and chronic
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