Physiotherapy Team Lead – Inpatient Respiratory and HMU/AMU/SSU

at  Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust

Band 7 Specialist physiotherapist – Physiotherapy Team Lead – Inpatient Respiratory and HMU/AMU/SSU
Are you a dynamic individual with specialist inpatient respiratory and HMU/AMU/SSU experience?
Are you passionate about patient centered care and do you value working in a positive team environment focused on peer support and development?
We are pleased to offer this exciting opportunity to come and join our team at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. We are a GOOD rated hospital following CQC inspection and are looking to employ a skilled, forward thinking, dynamic individual as an inpatient respiratory clinical specialist Physiotherapist.
The post is suitable for an experienced physiotherapist with past leadership and service development experience. The post will be operating across the respiratory wards, as well as HMU and AMU/SSU areas; working with individuals with a variety of complex needs. This role will involve working alongside consultants as part of the MDT.

The successful applicant will have extensive NHS Respiratory experience and possess excellent assessment, clinical reasoning, treatment and teaching skills. You will have sound IT skills and demonstrate the Trust’s values of Compassion, Aspiration, Resourcefulness and Excellence.

• To be a physiotherapy clinical expert in the management of inpatient respiratory patients and HMU/AMU/SSU clinical areas for the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust Hospital (RBFT).
• To be responsible for the operational management and clinical leadership of the Respiratory in-patient physiotherapy team in conjunction with the Professional Lead and Head of Therapies.
• To use expert physiotherapy knowledge and advanced clinical reasoning skills to provide specialist support and advice to the physiotherapy team and other healthcare staff, and to manage own caseload of patients with highly complex conditions as an autonomous practitioner.
• To ensure a high quality, effective physiotherapy service.
• To be a member of the physiotherapy department management team, contributing to planning and policy development in the therapies team and department.
• To deputise for the Professional Lead as required.

Reading sits on the river Thames and is served by great road and rail links to London, Oxford and Southampton. With excellent leisure and shopping facilities, and a thriving cultural scene, Reading is a wonderful place to live, work and play and provides excellent facilities for families, including some of the best state and private schools in the UK.
The CQC recently rated the care provided by the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust as Good.
Our values: C ompassionate, A spirational, R esourceful, E xcellent, reflect the type of Trust we aspire to be and you can join our dedicated and talented staff to make this happen.
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