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Job requirements
Essential
32 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Skills
Ability to lead and motivate others
- Skills
Excellent communication skills.
- Skills
Remains updated with professional practice and new research
- Skills
Research skills
- Skills
Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession
- Skills
Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Skills
Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Skills
Ability to work with multi-interdisciplinary team and set team goals
- Skills
Ability to comprehend and work within the Trust’s policies of Data Protection, Equal Opportunities and Health & Safety to meet the differing needs of the patients.
- Skills
Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in the POMR system
- Skills
Show evidence of being self-motivated
- Skills
Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment
- Knowledge
Awareness of national and local policies pertaining to respiratory disease and population health needs
- Knowledge
Awareness of skill mix and service needs
- Knowledge
Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- Knowledge
Remains updated on professional practice and new research
- Experience
Experience of undertaking clinical audit
- Experience
Minimum of 3 year’s NHS experience
- Experience
A minimum of 4 years post graduate experience with at least 2 years in specialist respiratory care including respiratory outpatients, ITU, and medical wards
- Experience
Broad range of experience at B5 and B6 level
- Experience
Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of respiratory patients demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning, in a variety of clinical settings.
- Experience
Experience of managing other staff
- Experience
Experience of teaching in a clinical setting
- Experience
Experience of student supervision/ clinical education
- Experience
Experience of MDT working
- other duties
Physically fit and able to comply with Trust Manual Handling Guidelines
- other duties
Professional demeanour
- other duties
Ability to work flexible working patterns to include working extended hours, unsociable hours and weekend working. This may be via additional hours, shifts or another working pattern.
- Qualifications and Training
Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
- Qualifications and Training
HCPC Registration
- Qualifications and Training
Evidence of Continued Professional Development including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field
- Qualifications and Training
Masters Degree or evidence of working at an equivalent level
Desirable
16 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Skills
Excellent IT skills
- Skills
Presentation skills
- Skills
Supervision of other staff e.g. HCA/physiotherapy assistant/technical instructor
- Skills
Committee membership e.g. Heath & Safety
- Experience
Experience of undertaking post graduate research projects
- Experience
Experience of operational team management
- Experience
Experience of lecturing externally
- Experience
Experience of service development and change management
- Qualifications and Training
Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g. MSc in Respiratory Care
- Qualifications and Training
Leadership Training
- Qualifications and Training
Post graduate management training
- Qualifications and Training
Membership of Special Interest Group: ACPRC / BTS
- Qualifications and Training
Clinical Assessment Skills
- Qualifications and Training
Non-Medical Prescriber
- Qualifications and Training
ARTP Spirometry Certificate
- Qualifications and Training
Level 2 smoking cessation certificate
Job overview
Job Purpose
To provide specialist respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment and care to a range of patients with undiagnosed respiratory disease as well as acute or chronic respiratory disease presentations. This will involve caring for patients in a number of differing environments in order to fully meet the populations needs of people with respiratory disease with in the SGH catchment, including out-patient clinics, and additional assessment areas including acute assessment areas. Deliver evidence-based treatments including breathing pattern retraining, air clearance techniques, chronic cough management and exercise advice.
The post requires working with a number of partners in and out of hospital settings, including Respiratory consultants, Respiratory nurses, GPs, community MDT teams and other partners such as Oxygen providers.
Main duties of the job
Job Summary:
- To use advanced assessment, diagnosis and plan treatment for respiratory patients in predominately outpatient settings, who are expected to have highly complex presentations in both acute and chronic disease. The post hold will be required to determine clinical diagnosis and plan treatment indicated, working as an autonomous practitioner whilst ensuring the accurate records are maintained.
- Provide specialist respiratory physiotherapy input to patients within department.
- To take a role in supervision and teaching of students, and members of the wider MDT.
- To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area and to set and monitor standards of practice.
- To input into commissioning of new services as required
- To supervise, initiate and participate in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental audit in the clinical area.
- To report into national audits relevant to clinical area
- To report regularly to stakeholders on service KPIs
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
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This advert is for Respiratory Physiotherapist with St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £58,133 - £65,261 PA. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Oct 2026.
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