Job Introduction
Band 5 Paediatric Physiotherapist
You will join a warm, collaborative and passionate paediatric therapy team. We support each other, share learning and celebrate each other’s wins. You will have regular supervision, access to senior clinicians and opportunities to grow your clinical confidence while contributing to an innovative and forward‑thinking therapy service.
As a Paediatric Physiotherapist you will receive:
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NHS Agenda for Change Band 5 salary with an NHS pension
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Membership of My Reward Hub with discounts, cashback and voucher offers
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Access to your wages as you earn them
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Wellbeing support including mental health services, activity challenges, financial wellbeing tools, coaching and counselling
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Access to e-learning, bespoke career pathways and development through our Outstanding Learning Enterprise
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An open, just culture with ringfenced innovation funding
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The pride of working for a provider where most services are rated Good or Outstanding by the CQC
Join our friendly and skilled Paediatric Physiotherapy team in Surrey, where you will help children and young people reach their full potential.
You will work with a varied caseload of children with diverse and complex needs, supported by experienced clinicians who want you to grow and succeed.
This is a great opportunity if you are newly qualified or expanding your paediatric experience. You will develop strong assessment and treatment skills and use evidence‑based practice to create therapy plans that make a real difference to children and families.
You will be welcomed into a supportive, values‑driven service with regular supervision, CPD opportunities and colleagues who genuinely care about the impact we make
You will be based at one of our local Surrey quadrant hubs, which may be an admin or clinical base in North West Surrey. You will work closely with families, schools, carers and wider professionals, always putting the child at the centre of your approach.
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Assess children using standardised and non‑standardised tools and contribute to diagnosis by sharing findings with paediatricians, parents and education professionals.
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Interpret results, set therapy goals and create child‑centred treatment plans that you review and adapt as needed.
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Provide therapy programmes for home and school, using clear communication in verbal, written or pictorial formats to ensure they are easy for families and carers to follow.
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Support parents who may be experiencing stress, frustration or anxiety, always showing empathy and sensitivity in your approach.
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Contribute to MDT working, attend and arrange meetings, deliver training to parents and education staff, keep accurate electronic records, and support students where appropriate.
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Deliver the therapy development plan and deputise for the Band 6 when required.
Essential
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BSc (Hons) Physiotherapy or equivalent
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HCPC registration
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Knowledge of legislation and policies relating to paediatric practice
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Postgraduate PT experience
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Broad understanding of current best practice
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Therapy experience relevant to the role
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Evidence of CPD
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Competence with standardised assessments
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Experience working in a multidisciplinary team
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Ability to deliver training
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Ability to work autonomously and reflect on practice
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Problem solving, planning and decision‑making skills
Desirable
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Experience working with children
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Specialist short courses related to paediatric PT
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Membership of relevant special interest groups or clinical excellence networks
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Experience supervising assistants or delivering training to parents and professionals
Other Requirement: Driving Licence and access to a car insured for business use.
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.
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