Respiratory Physiotherapist, Fixed Term

Employer Ashford and St. Peter's Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Employer type NHS

Site St Peter's hospital

Town Chertsey

Salary £39,205 - £47,084 per annum inc. HCAS

Salary period Yearly

Closing 03/04/2025 23:59

Respiratory Physiotherapist, Fixed Term

NHS AfC: Band 6

Job overview

An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join the respiratory, critical care and surgery inpatient physiotherapy team. This post is a fixed term cover Band 6 static physio 37.5 hours within the team based at St Peter’s Hospital.

There is excellent multi-disciplinary working with the respiratory and critical care teams where you will be involved in complex respiratory patients including complex NIV and invasive ventilation weaning and complex respiratory patients’ management including tracheostomy care, COPD and other respiratory conditions.

You will be expected to support and supervise the Band 5’s and therapy assistants with the support of the Band 7 physiotherapy team lead. They will work closely with the multi-disciplinary team to provide high quality care and improved outcomes for patients.

The successful candidate will have the ability to use their initiative, deputise in the absence of the band 7 and be an effective team worker with sound organisational abilities.

Unfortunately, as this is only a fixed term contract we will not be able to offer sponsorship for this role.

The post holder will be expected to participate in the on-call service and support bank holiday and weekend respiratory cover. Please contact Nirali Patel, Clinical Lead for Respiratory, ICU and surgery team at Nirali.patel3@nhs.net for any further information.

Main duties of the job

1. Work as an autonomous practitioner and manage a specialist respiratory caseload.
2. Complete comprehensive patient assessments, formulate clinical diagnoses and problem lists and provide physiotherapy.
3. Contribute to MDT handovers or problem patient sessions.
4. Work as part of a multi-disciplinary team, putting patient care and experience first.
5. Support junior staff with caseload management, prioritisation and clinical reasoning.
6. Actively participate in service development and contribute to monitoring of standards of practice, and take personal responsibility in your professional development and professional registration requirements.
7. Show passion for providing a high level of care and safeguarding to patients known to our service.
8. Use initiative, communicate with empathy and be an effective team player.
9. Demonstrate leadership skills and deputise for the team lead whenever necessary.
10. Participate in the development of physiotherapists and support staff within respiratory through training, competencies and supervision.
11. To take part in the weekend respiratory and on-call service.

Working for our organisation

Ashford and St. Peters Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of more than 410,000 people living in North-West Surrey, parts of Hounslow and beyond.

Over 3,700 highly trained doctors, nurses, midwives, therapists, healthcare scientists and other support staff make up our workforce, providing a wide range of services across our two hospital sites, Ashford, Surrey and St Peter's, Chertsey, Surrey.

We also run many specialist clinics in the community and local community hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

Our vision is to be one of the best healthcare Trusts in the country. There has never been a better time to join us in the NHS at ASPH. We are committed to providing continuous professional development and flexibility to shape our workforce around our patient care.

We are expanding our theatres at Ashford Hospital and moving towards this becoming our dedicated elective centre. We want to create a state-of-the-art centre for excellence for planned surgical procedures.

We can offer you the full range of NHS benefits/discounts and in addition:

• Excellent pension scheme and annual leave entitlement.
• On-site Nurseries.
• On-site staff cafes.
• On-site parking.
• Salary Sacrifice schemes including wage stream, lease cars, Cycle to Work schemes and home electronics.

Adverts may close early, so applicants are encouraged to submit an application as soon as possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

1.MAIN DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE POST:

Clinical

1. To undertake comprehensive assessments of patients including those with diverse or complex presentations/ multi-pathologies.
2. To undertake assessment and treatment of patients requiring NIV, fully ventilated and other complex respiratory conditions.
3. To manage patients with respiratory failure (acute or chronic).
4. To use investigative and analytical skills to assess complex patients and support other more junior physiotherapy staff with their patients as required.
5. To devise individualised physiotherapy management and / or treatment plans, using clinical reasoning skills.

Communication

1. To be able to communicate highly complex information sensitively to patients to gain their cooperation for treatment and valid consent.
2. To use persuading and influencing skills to encourage patients to self-manage their conditions.
3. To communicate any changes in care plan or treatment approach to other therapists as necessary.
4. To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients to progress treatment programmes. This may include patients who will have difficulties in understanding or communicating, e.g. patients who may be deaf, blind, or be unable to accept the diagnosis, or for whom English is not their first language.
5. To be able to manage frequently highly stressful, upsetting, or emotional situations in an empathetic manner.
6. To ensure timely and effective communication with the Therapy Lead on all professional matters.

Analytical / Judgment skills

1. To use ongoing investigative and analytical skills, manual assessment techniques and diagnostic procedures to assess complex patients and formulate a clinical diagnosis.
2. To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend the best course of intervention.
3. To evaluate patient progress, reassess and alter treatment programmes if required.
4. To keep up to date with developments, analysing current research and discussing and implementing changes to your clinical practice.

Responsibilities for human resources including personal and people development

1. To attend all relevant training to maintain competency and confidence.
2. To be responsible for and actively record your own personal development. This may include active participation in journal clubs, clinical reasoning and problem patient sessions as participant and facilitator.
3. To disseminate any training received to other staff and health care professionals.

Health, safety, and security

1. To monitor and maintain health, safety and security of self and others.
2. Responsible for identifying and assessing potential risks involved in work activities and processes for self and others.
3. To ensure completion of relevant risk assessments and associated documentation.
4. To take appropriate action, reporting actual or potential problems that may put health and safety and security at risk.
5. To be responsible for the safe use of equipment used in carrying out duties adhering to Trust and department policies and procedures. This includes competence and accuracy to use equipment by yourself and other healthcare professionals, carers and patients.
6. To be aware of risks involved as part of delivering clinical care and manage this within own clinical caseload.
7. To demonstrate a high level of understanding of clinical governance and clinical risk, actively participating in clinical governance groups.

Responsibility for Policy and Service Improvement/ Development

1. To make recommendations when appropriate to changes in practice leading to improvement in the service.
2. To be aware of risks involved as part of delivering clinical care and manage this within own patient caseload.
3. To demonstrate physical ability to carry out physiotherapy assessments and interventions including manual physiotherapy techniques. This involves frequent light to moderate physical effort.

Education

1. To participate in the professional development and training of physiotherapists and other members of the team within the respiratory rotations and to contribute to the on-call training programme.
2. To work closely with other senior staff to ensure appropriate on-call training in preparation for weekend and emergency on-call working.
3. To undertake clinical reasoning and problem patient sessions as facilitator and participant to include on-call training.
4. To participate in any training sessions as a recipient and facilitator.
5. To disseminate any training received to other staff and healthcare professionals.
6. To be actively involved in special interest groups to share and disseminate knowledge to colleagues.

Research/Audit/Quality

1. To regularly participate in and lead on appropriate work-related research/evaluation projects and to be aware of current research relevant to the speciality.
2. To participate in and initiate clinical audit and the evaluation of clinical effectiveness in line with Trust Policies.
3. To evaluate your own clinical effectiveness.
4. To ensure relevant topics are included in annual clinical governance and service plan.
5. To undertake and present relevant evidence-based projects.

IT

1. To ensure electronic notes are accurate and adhere to HCPC and trust standards.
2. To maintain timely and accurate statistical information as required by senior staff and managers.
3. To be responsible for the accurate input of clinical information onto the trust IT system.
4. To keep up to date with advances in technology.

Person specification

Qualifications

• BSc Physiotherapy, or Graduate Diploma Physiotherapy, or MSc Physiotherapy
• HCPC registered
• Evidence of relevant post registration training

Experience

• Recent and relevant experience on acute wards in respiratory and critical care.
• Experience of working in a team and contributing to team decisions.
• Experience of managing and prioritising own caseload.
• Experience of working with assistants and ability to delegate.

Knowledge

• Essential Working knowledge of current NHS priorities and initiatives.
• Knowledge of Non-Invasive Ventilation, Critical Care /relevant respiratory guidelines.
• Demonstrates an understanding of different treatment approaches and the evidence base and physiotherapy management for respiratory patients.

Skills

• Evidence of CPD and ability to identify own development needs.
• Essential Able to communicate effectively with patients and with other staff to ensure care, treatment and support are not compromised.
• Work effectively within a team and build strong professional relationships with the MDT.
• Ability to identify and set clinical goals with patients, set an appropriate treatment plan to achieve these particularly in a critical care or respiratory setting.
• Manage conflict and difficult situations.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.