Band 7 Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

at  Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust

Highly Specialist Physiotherapist – Respiratory (Medical) Physiotherapy Team Lead
Queen Elizabeth Hospital- Woolwich
We are seeking a dynamic and talented senior physiotherapist to work and lead the medical respiratory physiotherapy service at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. The post holder will be supervised by the clinical specialist critical care (cross-site) physiotherapist, and work alongside the physiotherapy lead for critical care and surgery. They will work as part of a large respiratory physiotherapy team as well as working as part of the wider trust respiratory physiotherapy service.
This exciting opportunity will allow the successful candidate to gain experience and develop advanced clinical and leadership skills. In this role, you would have the opportunity to experience the diversity of working across the London Boroughs of Greenwich and Bexley.
The caseload will comprise of a mixture of medical and respiratory inpatients, including those with an altered airway. Therapies are considered an integral part of the multi-disciplinary team at Lewisham and Greenwich Trust and enjoy close MDT working.
We support staff to attend courses and further education to allow progression in your clinical specialty, as well as senior leadership skills. This is supported both with access to paid study leave and course funding. All senior therapists are encouraged to take an active role in trust wide quality improvement, audit and service development.
The physiotherapy department within Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is highly regarded as an inclusive and supportive team. If you are a motivated Physiotherapist looking to progress as a Highly Specialist Medical Respiratory Physiotherapist do not miss this opportunity to work within a dynamic, friendly and innovative department with all the benefits of being a large London Trust.
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust is a community focused provider of local and acute care, providing high quality services to over one million people living across the London boroughs of Lewisham, Greenwich and Bexley. With a turnover of around £700 million, we provide services at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Woolwich, University Hospital Lewisham and a range of community settings in Lewisham. We also provide some services at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup.
Our people are our greatest asset. When we feel supported and happy at work, this positivity reaches those very people we are here for, the patients. Engaged employees perform at their best and our Equality, Diversity & Inclusion (EDI) initiatives contribute to cultivate a culture of engagement. We have four staff networks, a corporate EDI Team and a suite of programmes and events which aim to insert the 5 aspirations:
Improving representation at senior levels of staff with disabilities, from black, Asian, and ethnic minorities background, identify as LGBTQ+ and women, through improved recruitment and leadership development
Widening access (anchor institution) and employability
Improving the experience of staff with disability
Improving the EDI literacy and confidence of trust staff through training and development
Making equalities mainstream
Job Purpose
1 To lead a respiratory physiotherapy service of assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust. The caseload will comprise of a mixture of medical and respiratory in-patients, including those with an altered airway.
Job Summary
1 To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
2 To perform highly specialist physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical and psychological conditions; to provide a provisional diagnosis and develop and deliver an individualised treatment programme.
3 To take responsibility for own caseload, being responsible for a defined area of the service, providing support to more junior members of your team. Formal supervision is comprised of regular in-service training, appraisal, clinical reasoning sessions, documentation and caseload reviews and observation of clinical assessment / treatment or related discussion.
4 To lead the team and participate in evidence-based audit/research activity to further the team’s clinical practice. To make recommendations to the 8a clinical specialist physiotherapist for any changes to practice by the team.
5 To supervise specialised rotational and rotational physiotherapists, physiotherapy assistants, physiotherapy practitioners and physiotherapy students in the clinical setting.

3 EDUCATION AND TRAINING

3.1 To participate in the individual performance review (appraisal) and annual appraisal schemes and be responsible for complying with your agreed personal development plan to meet set goals.
3.2 To be responsible for maintaining your competence to practice and State Registration to HCPC through C.P.D. activities and maintaining a portfolio which reflects personal development.
3.3 To supervise rotational and specialist physiotherapists and assistants, being actively involved in their supervision and appraisal, reporting performance issues to the in-patient lead Physio.
3.4 To participate in and contribute to the in-service education programmes of the specific rotation and of the department.
3.5 To participate in mandatory and statutory training, having an awareness of and complying with Trust and departmental procedures.
3.6 To attend Trust in-house training sessions / programmes and external courses as appropriate.
3.7 To contribute to the education of Therapy Assistants when necessary.
3.8 To be responsible for the clinical education of student physiotherapists, teaching them to graduate level on physiotherapeutic skills and knowledge within the core clinical areas, reporting performance issues to a relevant person.