Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

Job overview

Band 6 Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

This is the perfect opportunity for a band 5 or 6 who has some experience & wishes to build on skills in the specialty of Community respiratory service. The role provides staff with the opportunity to work as part  MDT who truly support each other & work together towards our vision 'Investing in our patient community, empowering them to live well'.

The community Respiratory service offers a range specialist outpatient clinics and domiciliary visits to provide holistic assessment and treatment for patients with long term respiratory conditions.  The service also provides comprehensive venue based pulmonary rehabilitation program.  We are a multidisciplinary team of specialist nurses, physiotherapists and occupational therapist. Our service aims at delivering a multidisciplinary input for comprehensive management of patients with long term respiratory conditions.

We work holistically, towards patient led goals, providing rehabilitation & intervention to maximise patient's potential.  Using evidence-based practice & investing in our staff, so they have the knowledge, skills & training to provide this.  We provide intervention based on clinical need, utilising each other’s expertise & our rehabilitation assistants to maximise our intervention.  If we sound like the team you would like to work with,  please contact us so we can talk more about the role with you.

Main duties of the job

The Sutton Community respiratory service consists of Multi disciplinary team offering specialist, comprehensive assessment & intervention.  We work with adults in the Sutton area of South West London who have chronic respiratory conditions.  The post holder will be working as part of the MDT in offering structured pulmonary rehabilitation assessments and classes as per local and national guidelines and to undertake timely audit to benchmark the service quality and standards against national QI target.  They will also contribute to home oxygen service assessment and review as well as airway clearance therapy for patients who are under the care of respiratory service.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification.

The recruiting team reserve the right to close this advertisement early once applications reach maximum limit.