# Respiratory Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/respiratory-physiotherapist/0cf4480c-8750-4fd5-b102-22b871808a86 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/respiratory-physiotherapist/0cf4480c-8750-4fd5-b102-22b871808a86.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - **Location:** St George's Hospital - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £58,133 - £65,261 PA - **Contract type:** Permanent - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday - Friday ( 09:00 -17:00)) - **Closing date:** 2026-10-30T16:00:00.000Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-16T10:36:17.058Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/Tooting/St_Georges_University_Hospitals_NHS_Foundation_Trust/Respiratory/Respiratory-v8322745 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8322745?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** https://www.stgeorges.nhs.uk ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Skills **Essential** - - Ability to lead and motivate others - - Excellent communication skills. - - Remains updated with professional practice and new research - - Research skills - - Understand the legal responsibilities of the profession - - Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner - - Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate - - Ability to work with multi-interdisciplinary team and set team goals - - 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. - - Ability to keep legible and accurate notes in English in the POMR system - - Show evidence of being self-motivated - - Ability to cope with working in a stressful and unpredictable environment **Desirable** - - Excellent IT skills - - Presentation skills - - Supervision of other staff e.g. HCA/physiotherapy assistant/technical instructor - - Committee membership e.g. Heath & Safety ### Knowledge **Essential** - Awareness of national and local policies pertaining to respiratory disease and population health needs - - Awareness of skill mix and service needs - - Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit - - Remains updated on professional practice and new research ### Experience **Essential** - - Experience of undertaking clinical audit - - Minimum of 3 year’s NHS 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 - - Broad range of experience at B5 and B6 level - - 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 of managing other staff - - Experience of teaching in a clinical setting - - Experience of student supervision/ clinical education - - Experience of MDT working **Desirable** - - Experience of undertaking post graduate research projects - - Experience of operational team management - - Experience of lecturing externally - - Experience of service development and change management ### other duties **Essential** - - Physically fit and able to comply with Trust Manual Handling Guidelines - - Professional demeanour - - 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 **Essential** - - Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy - - HCPC Registration - - Evidence of Continued Professional Development including attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical field - - Masters Degree or evidence of working at an equivalent level **Desirable** - - Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g. MSc in Respiratory Care - - Leadership Training - - Post graduate management training - - Membership of Special Interest Group: ACPRC / BTS - - Clinical Assessment Skills - - Non-Medical Prescriber - - ARTP Spirometry Certificate - - Level 2 smoking cessation certificate ## Documents - [onboarding roadmap (pdf, 440.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2465) - [ai toolkit for candidates (pdf, 1.9mb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?ddoc=2411) - [band 7 respiratory physiotherapist (pdf, 312.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10644545) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.