Job summary
An exciting maternity cover opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic, and experienced Paediatric Physiotherapist to join our inpatient therapy team on a full-time, fixed-term basis for 9 months.

This is an excellent opportunity for a dynamic clinician looking to further develop their specialist paediatric skills within a supportive multidisciplinary environment. The successful candidate will work within our inpatient paediatric service, providing high-quality physiotherapy assessment and treatment to infants, children, and young people aged 0-19 years.

This varied caseload provides an exciting opportunity to develop and maintain advanced clinical expertise across a broad spectrum of paediatric specialities.

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a dedicated and supportive team, making a meaningful difference to the lives of children, young people, and their families.

If you are an enthusiastic and experienced paediatric physiotherapist looking for your next challenge, we would love to hear from you.

Main duties of the job
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

About us
We are an award-winning NHS Foundation Trust working alongside health and social care colleagues across the county to provide acute and community healthcare services to more than 420,000 people across Mansfield, Ashfield, Newark and Sherwood, and parts of Derbyshire and Lincolnshire.

We put the patient at the heart of everything that we do and it is our aim to make sure that every patient is treated as we would want a member of our own family to be treated. At the same time, we expect our staff to be caring, kind and courteous to each other and to look out for each other. We believe that we are truly a clinically-led organisation.

We are proud that our Trust colleagues have voted us the best acute Trust to work for in the East Midlands for seven years running in the National NHS Staff Survey, while the Care Quality Commission has rated our Trust as 'outstanding' for care and our King's Mill Hospital as the only 'outstanding' NHS-run hospital in the East Midlands.

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Details
Date posted: 25 September 2026
Pay scheme: Agenda for change
Band: Band 7
Salary: £49,387 to £56,515 a year per annum
Contract: Fixed term
Duration: 9 months
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 214-CSTO-8214392
Job locations: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom

Job description
Job responsibilities
To understand the role in more detail, please refer to the attached job description and person specification

Person Specification
Knowledge and skill requirements
Essential

• Highly specialist knowledge of acute paediatric respiratory and orthopaedic physiotherapy underpinned by theory and postgraduate courses
• A highly developed knowledge and ability to meet the standards and expected criteria for this therapy service
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Leadership skills
• Supervisory skills
• Able to work within a team independently
• Ability to pass on skills and knowledge to others
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
• Ability to lead change and is able to demonstrate implementation of new ways of working within a team
• Effective communication skills - oral and written
• Ability to keep accurate and legible patient records
• Able to provide and receive complex and /or sensitive information
• Remain updated with professional practice and new research
• Knowledge of clinical governance and its application to therapy
• Experience of Audit
• Ability to teach and pass on knowledge
• Experience of service evaluation and standard setting
• A broad understanding of the current local and national issues impacting on the Trust and service provision
• Modernisation Agenda for the NHS re new ways of working
• Excellent communication skills
• Computer literate with skill in using databases/spreadsheets and Powerpoint

Desirable

• Accredited specialist acute respiratory and paediatric orthopaedic training

Qualifications
Essential

• Degree and/or Post Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
• State registration with HCPC

Further Training
Essential

• Speciality specific clinical and management short courses
• Leadership training
• Supervision skills course

Experience
Essential

• Substantial Post graduate senior clinical experience, most recently working as a senior therapist which includes leadership and supervisory experience
• Proven experience of being an appraiser and supervisor of clinical staff
• Experience at Band 6 level in paediatrics
• Varied rotational experience
• Supervisory experience
• NHS experience

Desirable

• Clinical educator

Contractual Requirements
Essential

• Flexible hours of working / weekend working when required

Desirable

• Car driver

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.

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

Employer details
Employer name: Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Address: King's Mill Hospital, Mansfield Road, Sutton in Ashfield, NG17 4JL, United Kingdom
Employer's website: Apply through our website

Employer contact details
For questions about the job, contact: Therapy Operational Manager, Helen Burrows, h.burrows@nhs.net, 01623622515

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.
Applicants must have current UK professional registration.