Respiratory Physiotherapist: Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Job overview

*Advert may close early once sufficient number of applications is reached*

Do you really want to make a difference? Do you want to help patients remain living independently in their own homes working within a multi-disciplinary team? Do you want to deliver high quality care within the acute setting.  Do you want to be part of an innovative Respiratory team offering the highest quality care for patients? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for a dynamic registered Physiotherapist to join our highly specialised and committed respiratory clinicians working within Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

Are you a physiotherapist with a passion for respiratory care and pulmonary rehabilitation?  This is an exciting opportunity to join our respiratory Service.

Main duties of the job

Our respiratory teams are working in many innovative and exciting ways to improve quality of life for people with respiratory disease. This post offers the opportunity to  work within the acute and community setting working in integrated teams.

This is an ideal opportunity for a registered Physiotherapist, who has an interest in working within Rulmonary Respiratory, who is proactive, self-motivated and keen to be at the forefront of delivering high quality care, to join our team. The successful candidate will work closely with the Specialist Respiratory Practitioners in providing support and care for patients with Respiratory disease in the community and in patient setting. Recent training/experience qualification in relevant respiratory care is required for this post.

This post will involve assessing and treating patients who have complex presentations or multiple pathologies, using advanced assessment techniques and adapting the patients care plan/treatment programme according to patients needs

The post holders will need to be able to work flexibly, including weekend working.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.

To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form an accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.

To undertake the comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans, using advanced clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care. To demonstrate  developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients.

To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives,carers and other professionals, to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy,and to ensure a consistent approach to care.

It will be expected that the post holder will take a lead in developing excellence in the provision of Evidence Based Therapies / Interventions to people requiring Physiotherapy Intervention. This will include the development of respiratory pathways bridging acute and community services.