Senior Respiratory Physiotherapist

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a motivated, enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our Band 6 rotation scheme on a fixed term 12 month contract to cover for maternity leave.

You should have: •    Excellent communication and team working skills •    Completed core junior rotations including ITU, Medicine / Elderly care, neurology and orthopaedics. •    HPC and CSP registration

You must have previous NHS experience for this role.

We actively encourage continuing professional development through clinical supervision and a comprehensive in-service training programme. You will be well supported by an experienced team of lead respiratory physiotherapists including a clinical specialist physiotherapist and a consultant respiratory physiotherapist. You will have the opportunity to develop your senior skills with supervision of juniors and students and involvement in audit and service development.

Main duties of the job

To provide physiotherapy to relevant patients within respiratory, in a range of settings including inpatients, outpatients and patient homes.

The successful candidate will complete rotations including the following areas: •    Acute respiratory medicine including the physiotherapy-led non-invasive ventilation service •    Critical care and surgery including head and neck (maxilla-facial and ENT), abdominal (including oesophagogastric, pancreaticohepatic and colorectal surgery), breast and gynae-oncology surgery •    Cardiac rehabilitation, Pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory out-patients •    Medical rehabilitation including facilitating early supported discharge within A&E and MAU

The physiotherapy department is committed to providing excellent patient care across seven days. You will also contribute to the emergency respiratory on-call rota.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To assess and treat patient’s in Respiratory teams.  To support the team in the organisation and provision of an efficient, high quality and coordinated physiotherapy service for patients on relevant clinical area.  To undertake a defined clinical caseload.  To ensure that patient and service standards and priorities are met.