Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

An opportunity for an experienced respiratory physiotherapist to join the outpatient physiotherapy service has arisen. The role is cross site - delivering outpatient care to patients at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.

The post holder will undertake a highly specialist team leader role under the guidance of the therapy lead for lung therapy and clinical specialist physiotherapists to provide highly specialist physiotherapy to outpatients with chronic respiratory disease including severe asthma, bronchiectasis, and interstitial lung disease.

This will include planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating physiotherapy provided, with a focus on outpatients.

The post holder will supervise junior members of the respiratory physiotherapy team and play an active part in the on-call and weekend services.

Whilst this role is based at the Royal Brompton and Harefield, the post holder may be required to travel to other sites within the organisation.

To provide highly specialist physiotherapist care to patients with chronic respiratory disease, as a specialist clinician within the lung therapy service in predominantly outpatient and day case settings.

To play a key role in the tertiary multiprofessional services to patients with severe asthma, non-CF bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, complex COPD including the LVR pathway.

Taking a lead role, alongside the service management team to plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the outpatient physiotherapy service.

To lead the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who may have highly complex needs, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.

To organise, co-ordinate and deliver the service day to day within the hospital and to support the development of the service, along with other members of the adult lung team

To supervise junior team members .

To play a major role in the continuous development of the service using audit, evaluation and quality improvement methodology.

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best known hospitals – Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King's Health Partners – we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Patient / customer care (both direct and indirect)

To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.

To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and to support more junior staff to do likewise on a daily basis.

To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.

To undertake an advanced comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.

This role will require staff to work in a variety of clinical areas including critical care, in-patient wards, outpatient and virtual settings

To coordinate the assessment and triaging of patients whom may need follow up

To be responsible for the training of staff in the care of hospital patients from basic to complex including terminally ill patients.

To accept clinical responsibility for a designated specialised caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.

To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients.

To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, patients and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.

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