Team Lead Physiotherapist

Job overview

We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced paediatric physiotherapist to join our therapy team. King’s Paediatric Liver Centre is a national hub providing a highly specialised service to children with liver problems. This is the largest service of its type in the world and continues to grow.

We assess and treat children with a wide range of conditions including neonatal (newborn) liver diseases (including biliary atresia), chronic liver disease and acute liver failure.

The post holder will specialise in paediatric liver disease and will work within both inpatient and outpatient settings, as well as reviewing patients in virtual/telephone clinics and via email. The post holder will work with children from infancy through to adolescents in the transition service.

This job is a relatively new post and the postholder joins an existing physiotherapy team with specialities including Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive care, Neurology, Oncology, Cystic Fibrosis and Trauma and Orthopaedics.

If you have a strong background in paediatric physiotherapy and are keen to explore this specialist area we would love to hear from you. Paediatric liver experience is not essential, as training and support will be provided as needed.

Main duties of the job

• To ensure the provision of a high quality, evidence-based, physiotherapy service to paediatric patients with Liver Disease under the care of Child Health at King’s College Hospital.
• To deliver physiotherapy for paediatric patients with Liver Disease in both an inpatient and outpatient clinic setting
• To provide a regional and national physiotherapy service as part of the supra-regional paediatric liver unit at King’s College Hospital.
• To provide specialist physiotherapy support to colleagues in shared care hospitals within the UK and Europe.
• To use highly specialist physiotherapy knowledge and skills to manage own complex caseload, as an autonomous practitioner.
• To lead and manage own team and to supervise, teach and develop staff and students to meet individual and service needs.
• To deputise for the Physiotherapy Clinical Lead when necessary
• To take part in the on call/weekend rota.

Working for our organisation

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 15,000 staff based across South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. The trust-wide strategy of Strong Roots, Global Reach is our Vision to be BOLD, Brilliant people, Outstanding care, Leaders in Research, Innovation and Education, Diversity, Equality and Inclusion at the heart of everything we do. By being person-centred, digitally-enabled, and focused on sustainability, we aim to take Team King’s to another level.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.