Job summary

Be involved in setting up a new service for infants and families!

Are you an experienced neonatal or paediatric Allied Health professional (AHP) looking for a new challenge?

Do you want to work in an evolving specialist area, improving quality and equity of care for families accessing neonatal services?

If so, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust are looking to appoint a team of Neonatal AHPs to ensure infants and families needing care on the neonatal unit get the best possible start. There is an opportunity to shape the new service as it grows and develops, ensuring that universal, targeted, and specialised AHP services are available for all infants on the neonatal unit.

Main duties of the job

You will:

  • Develop a strategy for, and deliver universal, targeted, and specialised physiotherapy, in collaboration with your AHP colleagues from Dietetics, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language Therapy.
  • Have a passion for working with infants and families
  • Have extensive experience in a paediatric or neonatal setting
  • Demonstrate sound knowledge and skills in the holistic evidence-based assessment and intervention of a diverse range of neonatal presentations meeting neuro-developmental, respiratory and musculoskeletal therapy needs with evidence of transferrable skills applicable to the role.
  • Have experience of delivering education at different levels (for example families, students, the wider multi-disciplinary team)
  • Demonstrate an interest in service development, audit, and research

About us

Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust (SWBT) is an integrated careorganisation with a budget of approximately £600 million and over 7,000 staff. Diversity and social care is at the core of what we do as the Trust provides Community and Acute Services to over half a million people in an urban centre that demands massive regeneration and has substantial premature mortality.

Our new acute hospital, the Midland Metropolitan University Hospital (MMUH), opens in 2024 and will provide care to our local population from first class, purpose-built premises.As a result, the base of this role may change to MMUH from 2024 (or beyond). If this is applicable to your role, you will be informed during the recruitment process and continuing your application with this understanding.The development of the new hospital will play an important role in the regeneration of the wider area and in improving the lives of local people and reducing health inequalities.

We have three newly emerging strategic objectives:

  1. Our People – to cultivate and sustain happy, productive and engaged staff
  2. Our Patients – to be good or outstanding in everything we do
  3. Our Population – to work seamlessly with our partners to improve live

Date posted

03 March 2023

Pay scheme

Agenda for change

Band

Band 7

Salary

£41,659 to £47,672 a year per annum

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Part-time

Reference number

381-CT-5073144

Job locations

Neontal Unit, City Hospital

Dudley Road

Birmingham

B18 7QH

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements for this role.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for full details of the requirements for this role.

Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge of a variety of paediatric and neonatal neurology, respiratory and musculoskeletal conditions and diagnosis acquired through post-graduate study/development & experience

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
  • HPC Registration
  • Portfolio evidence of CPD

Desirable

  • Membership of relevant CSP Special Interest Group

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Experience in assessing and managing a variety of newborn abnormalities and conditions in either acute or community settings.
  • Working as part of a Physiotherapy team and the wider MDT
  • Supervision and delegation of work to Junior Physiotherapists and support staff
  • Education of junior staff or undergraduate Physiotherapy students

Desirable

  • Staff development and management of informal disciplinary matters
  • Policy/protocol development/ evaluation 1 Remove row Guidance * Guidance Involvement in audit & research Score *
  • Involvement in audit & research

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

  • Motivate a team to deliver a high quality clinical service
  • Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team
  • Demonstrate innovation and ability to make recommendations for service improvement
  • Demonstrate initiative and commitment to self-directed learning

MANAGEMENT/ SUPERVISION/ CO-ORDINATION SKILLS

Essential

  • Organise and prioritise own and team workload
  • Line manage and deploy staff effectively to meet service needs
  • Supervise and assess the performance of Physiotherapy students

COMMUNICATION Written Skills

Essential

  • Formulate and implement service protocols, contribute to service policies and procedures

COMMUNICATION Verbal Skills

Essential

  • Communicate effectively with patients, their carers, therapy colleagues, members of the MDT on a daily basis including face to face, telephone, e-mail contacts and attendance at internal and external meetings

PHYSICAL SKILLS

Essential

  • Proficiency in physically facilitating and handling babies with complex physical presentations, respiratory conditions or at risk of respiratory conditions, with an ability to demonstrate handling techniques to others Able to carry out concurrent activities involving frequent moderate to intense physical effort for several long periods manoeuvring patients and equipment throughout the working day.

EMOTIONAL EFFORT

Essential

  • Able to deal sensitively with families/carers with high levels of anxiety/aggression which may be multifactorial.
  • Able to deal with situations involving conflict and dispute and disciplinary matters
Person Specification

KNOWLEDGE

Essential

  • Demonstrate highly developed specialist knowledge of a variety of paediatric and neonatal neurology, respiratory and musculoskeletal conditions and diagnosis acquired through post-graduate study/development & experience

QUALIFICATIONS

Essential

  • Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
  • HPC Registration
  • Portfolio evidence of CPD

Desirable

  • Membership of relevant CSP Special Interest Group

EXPERIENCE

Essential

  • Experience in assessing and managing a variety of newborn abnormalities and conditions in either acute or community settings.
  • Working as part of a Physiotherapy team and the wider MDT
  • Supervision and delegation of work to Junior Physiotherapists and support staff
  • Education of junior staff or undergraduate Physiotherapy students

Desirable

  • Staff development and management of informal disciplinary matters
  • Policy/protocol development/ evaluation 1 Remove row Guidance * Guidance Involvement in audit & research Score *
  • Involvement in audit & research

PERSONAL QUALITIES

Essential

  • Motivate a team to deliver a high quality clinical service
  • Work collaboratively within the multidisciplinary team
  • Demonstrate innovation and ability to make recommendations for service improvement
  • Demonstrate initiative and commitment to self-directed learning

MANAGEMENT/ SUPERVISION/ CO-ORDINATION SKILLS

Essential

  • Organise and prioritise own and team workload
  • Line manage and deploy staff effectively to meet service needs
  • Supervise and assess the performance of Physiotherapy students

COMMUNICATION Written Skills

Essential

  • Formulate and implement service protocols, contribute to service policies and procedures

COMMUNICATION Verbal Skills

Essential

  • Communicate effectively with patients, their carers, therapy colleagues, members of the MDT on a daily basis including face to face, telephone, e-mail contacts and attendance at internal and external meetings

PHYSICAL SKILLS

Essential

  • Proficiency in physically facilitating and handling babies with complex physical presentations, respiratory conditions or at risk of respiratory conditions, with an ability to demonstrate handling techniques to others Able to carry out concurrent activities involving frequent moderate to intense physical effort for several long periods manoeuvring patients and equipment throughout the working day.

EMOTIONAL EFFORT

Essential

  • Able to deal sensitively with families/carers with high levels of anxiety/aggression which may be multifactorial.
  • Able to deal with situations involving conflict and dispute and disciplinary matters

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Additional information

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab) .

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab) .

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).