Volunteer Physiotherapist

Role Overview As a Physiotherapist in our rehabilitation team, your role will be to remotely provide age-appropriate and tailored physiotherapy assessment, advice and intervention to children with acute trauma and injuries and those with chronic conditions in Gaza. You will work as part of a multidisciplinary rehabilitation, health, and medical team, alongside staff based in Gaza and internationally across several countries.

Key Responsibilities

Support the Rehabilitation team's mission by effectively engaging with the CNN Multi-Disciplinary Team to remotely provide optimal rehabilitation advice and intervention to injured and disabled children in Gaza. Maintain consistent communication that enables effective patient care, operational efficiency, and timely decision-making. Assess patients' physical and functional conditions and equipment requirements to determine treatment needs. Plan and implement therapeutic interventions to help patients develop, recover, and maintain physical skills and function. Develop, monitor and evaluate individualised treatment plans to improve and/or maintain patients' physical ability and function. Provide advice on appropriate therapy to enhance function, independence, mobility, strength, coordination, and gross motor skills. To offer clear, focused, and accessible rehabilitation advice and interventions through written programmes and other relevant materials, all provided in the local language (translation support available). To use a child-centred, goal/task-focused and functional/play-based approach, alongside ‘SMART’ concepts, and to ensure all advice provided is realistic and achievable. Identify the necessary resources to ensure optimal patient rehabilitation. Collaborate with other healthcare professionals, including doctors, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, and caseworkers Provide support to the rehabilitation clinicians and team, in and out of Gaza. Utilise WhatsApp for real-time communication and SharePoint for documentation, as well as other relevant systems and programmes. Maintain accurate patient records and document progress. Stay up to date with best practices and advancements in Physiotherapy. Contribute to rehabilitation MDT meetings. Contribute to the leadership and coordination of the Rehabilitation team, ensuring effective collaboration and communication among team members. To be proactive in volunteering time and expertise, and to proactively contribute to group discussion and communication, including volunteering for both patient-related and team tasks/responsibilities. Perform any other duties as required from time to time to support the rehabilitation program and CNN’s goals. Skills and Experience Required Qualifications: A degree or equivalent in Physiotherapy, and relevant regulatory registration. Preferred Experience: Experience working with children. A wide range of experience across paediatric clinical specialities and age groups. Experience with equipment provision, orthotics, or wheelchairs. Experience working as part or a team, including multidisciplinary teams. Experience working with people from different cultures and languages, and experience of using app/web-based communications (such as WhatsApp) and virtual meeting and storage platforms Knowledge & Skills Key Knowledge Areas: Paediatric conditions (including orthopaedic/MSK, neurological and cardiorespiratory), child development, theraputic approaches and child safeguarding. Knowledge of techniques and strategies to optimise/improve physical function, gross motor skills, mobility and independence. Key Clinical Skills: Family/child-centred assessment and goal setting, clinical reasoning, intervention techniques (including therapeutic exercise, physical activity and play-based therapy), and mobility aid and equipment provision. Key Personal Attributes: Excellent communication, empathy, teamworking, collaboration, creativity, problem-solving and flexibility. Commitment The role requires a minimum commitment of 5 hours per week Application Process To apply, please submit your CV and a brief cover letter outlining your relevant skills and experience.