Advanced Clinical Practitioner Paediatric Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 8a
Main area Paediatric Physiotherapy Grade NHS AfC: Band 8a Contract Fixed term: 9 months (B8a or B7 depending on experience aligned to person specification) Hours Part time – 11.25 hours per week Job ref 153-SP06128
Department name 1. UHD – General Recruitment Site Poole Town Poole Salary £49,387 – £56,515 Dependant on experience & alignment with ACP governance Salary period Yearly Closing 09/06/2026 23:59 Interview date 18/06/2026
As University Hospitals Dorset we are a three site acute trust with ‘university hospital’ status through our partnership with Bournemouth University, working with an annual budget of £730m.
We offer highly regarded health services, employing some 10,000 staff. Our ambitious £500m transformation programme is well on the way to delivering state-of-the-art facilities over the next two years to meet the current and future healthcare needs of the populations we serve.
In an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with over seven miles of sandy beaches you’ll find inspirational opportunities to achieve your perfect work/life balance. With the New Forest and the Purbecks on our doorstep, we’re also less than three hours from London by road or train. The thriving towns of Poole, Bournemouth and Christchurch give way to idyllic villages and unspoilt landscapes just minutes from our hospitals.
We believe that having a diverse workforce, and allowing people to be themselves, is essential in ensuring we offer an inclusive, welcoming and productive place to work.
We especially welcome applications from minority groups in the community who may be underrepresented in our workforce.
At UHD our active staff network groups are the Women’s Network, Black Asian Minority Ethnic Group (BAME), Pride Network, European (EU), Pro Ability Staff Network, and the Armed Forces Support Group.
As a Trust we are proudly signed up to the Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant guaranteed interview schemes.
We are aware that some candidates may choose to use AI tools to support the preparation of their application. While this is not discouraged, we kindly remind applicants that submissions should remain an honest and accurate representation of your own experience and suitability. Personal integrity is an important part of the recruitment process.
Job overview
We are seeking to recruit an enthusiastic and highly motivated Advanced Clinical Physiotherapy Practitioner (ACP) or Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist (banding depending on experience) in Paediatric Orthopaedics to join our established multidisciplinary team.
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly specialist, autonomous practitioner to work at an advanced level of practice, playing a key role in the assessment and management of children and young people with orthopaedic presentations.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will independently lead advanced practice clinics, triage and manage referrals, request and interpret investigations, and make advanced clinical decisions within agreed protocols. You will work closely with a Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon from University Hospital Southampton and the wider MDT, contributing to high-quality, patient centred care and service development.
This role is ideal for an experienced clinician with strong clinical reasoning skills, confidence working autonomously, and a commitment to collaborative multidisciplinary working.
· Fixed term for 9 months (maternity leave cover)
· 11.25 hours per week / 0.3 WTE
· Based within Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgery
Informal visits or discussions are encouraged.
Working for our organisation
UHD are investing, developing and transforming Trust services in line with the New Hospital Programme. As part of this, some services may move site this year or next, either temporarily or permanently. Recruiting Managers will be happy to answer any service-specific questions at interview.
If a role or service relocates as part of a planned move, excess mileage will not be reimbursed. Travel from home to the new work base will be classed as a normal commute. Any other changes will be managed under Trust or national terms and conditions.
UHD has active networks including Women’s, BAME, Pride, EU, Pro Ability, and Armed Forces. We support Disability Confident and Armed Forces Covenant interview schemes.
AI tools may be used, but applications must honestly reflect your own skills and experience. Integrity is key to our recruitment process.
For UHD employees, this fixed-term post will be offered as a secondment in line with the Trust’s Secondment Policy. Please speak with your line manager before applying.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To be responsible for the rapid assessment, diagnostics, and treatment of individuals within the elective paediatric orthopaedic service using an advanced level of professional accountability, autonomy, and judgement, underpinned by Masters level theory and experience. This includes highly complex decision-making across a broad range of differentiated and undifferentiated individual presentations and complex situations, synthesising information from multiple sources to make appropriate, evidence-based judgements and/or diagnoses.
To triage and assess babies, children and young people referred for consideration of orthopaedic surgery.
To provide clinical leadership to the ACP & ECP team and work with others within the directorate to determine the priority workload of the team across the directorate.
To plan and manage complete episodes of care, working in collaboration with the consultants and others, delegating, and referring as appropriate, to ensure timely, effective management and optimise health outcomes, in line with the evidence base and nationally recognised best practice.
To play a key operational role and maintain a pro-active approach to managing and leading clinical pathways and flow.
Working closely with a multi-professional team, lead the AP paediatric orthopaedic service in delivery of high quality, performance, and financial frameworks.
To promote and implement service and policy development and redesign, impacting beyond own area and other disciplines, informed by current best practice and evidence-base, in accordance with values-based care of the trust.
To act as a resource to others and to develop, deliver and evaluate a range of relevant specialist programmes of education and development for individuals and large groups, including the wider multidisciplinary team, both internally and external to the trust.
Person specification
Qualifications
- HCPC Registered
- Physiotherapy Degree
- ACP Masters
- Post graduate paediatric qualifications
Experience
- B7 clinical experience within paediatrics
- Significant clinical experience in the management of children with orthopaedic conditions
- Significant clinical experience in the management of children with orthopaedic conditions secondary to neurological diagnoses.
- Experience of teaching, mentoring, and developing staff
- Participation in research and experience of critical appraisal of the evidence base to inform practice
- Participation in audit
- B6 clinical experience within paediatrics
- Teaching staff from other professions
- Team leader
Please note:
Staff recruited are expected to be available to work flexibly across all our Trust locations to meet service demands.
This advert may be closed early if sufficient applications are received.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself and our patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst this vaccination is not a condition of employment we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated.
Internal Candidates: staff employed prior to merger who voluntarily change jobs will be appointed to UHD terms and conditions.
Employer certification / accreditation badges
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Name Tori McGregor Job title Acute Paediatric Physiotherapy Team Lead Email address tori.mcgregor1@nhs.net Telephone number 0300 019 8251
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