Band 6 Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist
Are you looking for a new challenge? Do you want to extend your respiratory clinical skills via a static respiratory post in a forward thinking department?
Then you could be the person for us. We are looking for an enthusiastic and dynamic individual to join our respiratory physiotherapy team Cross-Site at University Hospital Lewisham and Queen Elizabeth Hospital.
You will play a key role in the clinical provision of services to a varied patient caseload. Therapies are considered an integral part of the Multi-disciplinary team at Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust and as such enjoy MDT working. Respiratory experience will be gained in the following areas
Critical care
Respiratory and cardiology wards
Surgical wards
Cystic Fibrosis
Paediatrics including High Dependency
NIV and Optiflow provision including Assisted Ventilation Unit
Pulmonary Rehabilitation
The post offers the opportunity to build on existing clinical respiratory knowledge and skills and to grow service development experience in a supportive environment. There will be opportunity to develop your clinical skills via simulation training, as well as developing from band 7 respiratory specialists at each site, and a cross-site band 8A critical care clinical specialist physiotherapist.
Candidates should have good clinical reasoning, time management and communication skills. You will be involved in the supervision and teaching of Band 5 physiotherapists, Therapy Assistants and students. The successful candidate would also be expected to contribute to service development within the acute respiratory team which may involve cross site service development. You will be expected to support staff to obtain and maintain respiratory competencies to work on the on-call and weekend working rotas. You will be expected to actively participate in on-call and weekend working.
Continued professional development is encouraged and viewed as integral to providing a quality service for patients. We offer regular supervision, in-service training and actively promote the personal development of all our therapists. 7-day working for Therapies is under development within the Trust.
The physiotherapy department is a very inclusive environment to work in and is keen to continue to highlight the importance of this working closely with our local community.
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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 provide a specialist respiratory physiotherapy service of assessment, diagnosis, treatment and management of patients in the Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust.
2 To participate in the Band 6 respiratory rotation scheme, involving rotating cross-site across a range of respiratory inpatient, outpatient and community clinical areas. Rotations are 8 months long.
Job Summary
1 To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner.
2 To perform advanced 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, with the support of a Band 7/8 physiotherapist.
4 With the team, to participate in evidence based audit / research activity to further the team’s clinical practice within each rotation. To make recommendations to the lead Band 7/8 for any changes to practice by the team.
5 To supervise junior physiotherapists and physiotherapy students in the clinical setting.