Highly Specialist Neonatal Physiotherapist

+ To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of patients in your care.
+ To attend appropriate ward rounds and multidisciplinary meetings in order to provide expert advice to the multi-disciplinary team regarding provision of highly specialist neurodevelopmental, musculoskeletal and respiratory support and advice based on clinical evidence.
+ To independently undertake comprehensive, highly specialist neurodevelopmental assessment and treatment of infants, including those with complex presentations; encompassing any musculoskeletal or respiratory presentations that fall under scope of practice.
+ To advise the neonatal team and support parents on the optimisation of neurodevelopmental outcomes, through positioning, handling and awareness of the neuroprotective environment.
+ To work with the neonatal team to promote the establishment of FiCare and developmental care with all babies on the Unit
+ To make recommendations to the neonatal team regarding adaptation of positioning to optimise development and aid airway clearance management.

We are looking for an experienced, motivated and proactive team player with excellent communication skills to undertake this highly specialist role. The successful applicant will work as a key member of the neonatal MDT team and will be working in an inpatient setting on the neonatal unit and conducting outpatient clinics.

Working for our organisation
Bolton NHS Foundation Trust is an integrated provider of acute, intermediate and community health care serving the population of Bolton. This provides us with an opportunity for our services to work closely with our partners in primary care and the local authority to ensure a seamless service for our patients.
Here at Bolton our patients are at the heart of everything we do. We ensure our patients receive the highest quality of Care and are guided by our trust Values. We are proud that our Trust is a centre of excellence for maternity and children's services, with new central delivery suite, special care, neonatal intensive care and children's unit. This is in recognition of the patient experience and quality of care that our staff provide to patients. It is also supported by our Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professional Framework for Professional Practice. With this in mind we are seeking to recruit staff who share the organisation's values and beliefs.
Bolton Foundation Trust aims to ensure the wellbeing and development of all our staff team and are committed to the continuous improvement of staff engagement initiatives. This is reflected in the NHS staff survey .
Bolton itself is a culturally diverse university town within easy motorway access of Manchester and surrounding areas.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The main responsibilities are to:
+ Take a highly specialist lead in providing a high quality, evidence-based physiotherapy service to the neonatal unit requiring an advanced level of knowledge, skills and experience
+ Work within a multi-disciplinary team providing highly specialist clinical expertise on the neurodevelopmental management of babies in the neonatal unit
+ Develop and implement physiotherapy guidelines and best practice to optimise developmental outcome through early intervention
See attached Job Description for further details.
The vision of this Trust is to be recognised by the people of Bolton and beyond as an excellent provider of health and care services and a great place to work. We are striving to attract, recruit and retain high calibre skilled staff which reflect our communities. We are an inclusive employer who trains and develops our staff in a positive learning environment.
We thrive on cultivating cultural architecture, if you have the right skills, attitudes and behaviours, in line with our Trust values, we welcome and appreciate the diversity you bring to our organisation.
We offer a wide range of staff benefits please click on the link below to see what current benefits we have.
Staff benefits - Bolton NHS FT (boltonft.nhs.uk)
From time to time we may need to close a vacancy early when in receipt of a sufficient number of applications. If you are interested in this post and wish to be considered, we strongly advise you to complete and submit your application as soon as possible.