Consultant Practitioner In Respiratory Physiotherapy

Job overview

The Consultant practitioner will be an integral part of the integrated respiratory MDT.

The practitioner will be highly specialist and provide rapid respiratory care in conjunction with Thoracic medicine services and community respiratory teams and work across the system.

The Respiratory MDT consists of highly specialist clinicians and support workers who assess, treat and create a patient management plan for patients requiring acute hospital care and those unwell adults threatening admission secondary to respiratory illness.

The CP will use clinical leadership to influence and innovate to develop services for patients. The CP will support and influences the strategic clinical direction for the benefit of service users, organisations, and health networks alike. Through utilising, leading and integrating research evidence into practice, quality will be enhanced in all areas of assessment, diagnosis, management, and evaluation, delivering improved outcomes for service users and extending the parameters of their field of practice.

Advanced skills and levels of clinical judgment, knowledge and experience will underpin their expertise and ability to promote the delivery good clinical governance. The Consultant Practitioner will work strategically across a range of models of service delivery across the acute and non-acute pathway and are expected to influence policy and decision making, operating the highest level of professional autonomy and decision making.

Main duties of the job

In JD

The Consultant practitioner will be an integral part of the integrated respiratory MDT.

The practitioner will be highly specialist and provide rapid respiratory care in conjunction with Thoracic medicine services and community respiratory teams and work across the system.

***Preference will be given to internal Trust staff, as well as ‘Priority’ and 'At Risk' status including NHS At Risk staff throughout Devon who are able to display recent relevant experience as dictated by the Person Specification.***

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Be an expert in respiratory care professional practice and independent decision- making in complex and unpredictable situations.

Work with One Devon / Healthy Lives Partnership

Demonstrate continued measurable and lasting improvements to the quality of care to patients

Demonstrate the development of innovative and effective person-centred respiratory care

Demonstrate public, service users, carers and families are involved in joint activities to improve and evaluate respiratory care.

Demonstrate improved person-centered, safe, effective and joint working across Devon ICB Services.

Provide values-based and strategic leadership across the respiratory care pathways, acute Trust and in conjunction with local community providers within changing, complex situations and have a transforming and positive lasting effect on staff and people experiencing respiratory

Be seen as a key influential leader in helping to develop respiratory care practice,

Develop the continued transformation of respiratory care to meet the needs of local population demographics, by the development of clinical care and service leaders.

Demonstrate innovation in changing and complex situations.

Significantly influence the learning culture within the respiratory care team with respect to advanced nursing practice, and across the Trust with respect to patient care.

Focus on measurable outcomes on organisational learning by being a skilled facilitator and capturing meaningful outcome data-to be shared at the appropriate boards and forums.

Identify learning and development initiatives to support workforce development across Devon ICB.

Influence and contribute to developing curriculums to enable learning locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.

Oversee the leadership on the implementation of evidence into practice.

Create a knowledge rich culture, especially by ensuring all relevant EPR and system data are used intelligently

Identify and contribute to the evidence base, informing person centred, safe and effective cardiorespiratory care.

Inspire and help others in the teams and in the Trust to be positively involved with research and academic pathways.

Develop and lead respiratory care research programmes and academic activities.