# Static Respiratory Physiotherapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Barts Health NHS Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Archived / closed
- **Employer:** Barts Health NHS Trust
- **Town:** London
- **Region:** London
- **Country:** England
- **Profession:** Physiotherapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £45,953 - £54,254 per annum inc
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-07-20T23:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-07-10T14:01:09.108Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/London/London/Barts_Health_NHS_Trust/Therapies_Respiratory/Therapies_Respiratory-v8132507
- **Employer website:** https://www.bartshealth.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

An exciting Band 6 Static Respiratory Physiotherapist opportunity has arisen in our multi-professional inpatient therapy team at Newham University Hospital, part of Barts Health NHS Trust. Based in East London, we provide acute services for this vibrant, multicultural community.

We are looking for a highly skilled, innovative and passionate individual  to join our Physiotherapy team as a Static Band 6 Physiotherapist

The ideal candidate is a highly motivated, autonomous and dynamic individual who is committed to further improving their clinical assessment and activity analysis skills and providing high quality, timely and effective services to patients and the organisation.

The successful candidate will work as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team to develop your clinical, leadership, teaching and service development skills whilst working within a supportive and motivated team.  The team is committed to ongoing learning and development and as a member of the team the successful candidate will be part of this as well as take a leading role.

### Main duties of the job

To provide high quality physiotherapy interventions, working as part of a team covering  a caseload of acute patients including those requiring acute respiratory management on ICU ; respiratory, cardiology, medical wards; and outpatient respiratory clinics.

To use this role to develop professionally within the respiratory physiotherapy speciality and provide high-quality experience to patients and team members.

To remain competent for respiratory on-calls and work on 7 day service.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below

## Person Specification

### Other

**Essential**

- Commitment to non-discriminatory practice.
- Committed to lifelong and self-directed learning
- Sufficient to perform the duties of the post with any aids and adaptations

### Skills

**Essential**

- Application of Risk Management
- Ability to deliver training both internally within the profession and externally to other staff groups.
- Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
- Ability to keep accurate and legible patient notes
- Ability to apply current best practice in physiotherapy in acute physical, community and rehab settings.
- Ability to maintain respiratory competency to be able to perform emergency physiotherapy duties
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to supervise other staff e.g. more junior staff / assistants / students.
- Ability to work as an effective team member
- Ability to demonstrate flexibility and reliability.
- Ability to gain patient’s trust
- Ability to engender confidence & feeling of safety in patients about their care
- IM&T skills.
- Ability to present information both orally and written in a clear and logical manner.
- Able to carry out moderate to intense physical effort throughout the working day and carry out concurrent activities

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Broad knowledge of current best practice in PT in acute physical, community and rehab setting
- Detailed knowledge risk management
- Knowledge of clinical governance and its implication for services
- Understanding and compliance with Data Protection & Confidentiality
- Understand legal responsibilities of the profession and the associated code of ethics

### Experience

**Essential**

- Relevant post registration experience as a Physiotherapist including tracheostomy care.
- Post registration experience in relevant clinical settings: Critical care, Respiratory, Neurology, Surgery, MSK.
- Documented evidence of CPD, in accordance with HCPC recommendations
- Experience of working as part of a multi- disciplinary team
- Advice, training and support to more junior staff, assistants and students.
- Experience of sole working as part of an emergency out of hours service
- To have had relevant NHS or similar experience
- Experience of audit/research.

**Desirable**

- Member of specific interest group
- Committee membership eg Risk Management

### Education/ Qulifications

**Essential**

- Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy
- Member of the Health Care Professions Council

**Desirable**

- Member of the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy

## Documents

- [static b6 resp jd (pdf, 255.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10430085)
- [our values and behaviours (pdf, 334.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1119)
- [candidate information pack (pdf, 549.5kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2446)
- [newham hospital - bus routes (pdf, 158.9kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10430020)
- [policy statement on the recruitment of ex-offenders (pdf, 92.0kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1120)

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