Are you an experienced and dedicated Children’s Physiotherapist?  Are you looking to join a team who is striving to make positive changes in Essex?

As a Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, you will play a crucial role in delivering outstanding SEND Therapy services. You'll be part of a collaborative and supportive team, working with children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities. Your expertise will help improve their mobility, alleviate pain, and enhance their overall quality of life.

The role is permanent, with the opportunity to work hybrid between visits to local schools / children’s homes and completing virtual sessions from home. As you will be visiting local schools as part of your role, a driving license and access to a vehicle is essential

If you are a Children’s Physiotherapist with an active HCPC Registration we’d love to talk to you about joining the team.

As a Highly Specialist Paediatric Physiotherapist, you will feel valued receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• Band 7 salary with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions 

• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday 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  

• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission

You main responsibilities will be as follows:

• To manage own delegated caseload of SEND children, including complex cases, independently across a variety of predominantly educational settings.
• To work with parents/carers, education colleagues, the multidisciplinary team and the wider children’s workforce to provide a co-ordinated approach to children’s Physiotherapy needs, as part of their EHCP provision.
• To assess for, recommend and source specialist equipment, as appropriate. 
• To contribute to the EHCP process, including annual reviews, advising and updating schools, parents/carers and the SEND Therapies service manager accordingly.
• To support the SEND manager and SEND service to meet key performance targets and to contribute to service development.
• To work in partnership with other agencies in order to meet local and national objectives as agreed with commissioners and SEND Therapies Manager.

We are looking for someone who:

• Has a Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
• Is registered and compliant with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)
• Experience of providing clinical supervision to other Physiotherapists and assistants
• Has evidence of Post graduate training/or equivalent experience relevant to speciality such as:
  • Child Development
  • Specialist courses/ study on conditions that affect child development, autistic spectrum disorders, ADHD, neurodevelopment conditions, sensory needs.
• Car driver with own car, insured for business use.

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.