Band 7 Highly Specialist Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist

Are you interested in Specialist Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapy? This exciting opportunity is in the Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapy Team as part of University Hospitals Birmingham. The specialities at the trust include Paediatric Inpatient wards and Paediatric HDU You will see a variety of patients from NIV to patients with tracheostomies. Other respiratory services include Paediatric Transition, Neuromuscular, Long-Term Ventilation and Cystic Fibrosis Service. You will also be part of the 7-day respiratory service across the hospital. We are looking for an enthusiastic, experienced and innovative physiotherapist with expertise's within Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapy. You will have extensive experience; excellent team working and time management skills. You will work alongside specialist physiotherapists, providing respiratory care to patients whilst working closely with the multi-professional team. You will have the opportunity to supervise and support students, Junior
Physiotherapists, Therapy Support Workers and Physiotherapists in the wider on call service. Research and CPD opportunities are encouraged. This role is based at Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, however, as the Trust is a multi-site organisation, you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites., To deliver highly specialist paediatric respiratory physiotherapy and act as a source of expertise to fellow clinicians, managers, healthcare professionals and other services internal and external to the trust, as required. The post holder will be required to work effectively in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, other health professionals to promote the development, planning and delivery of respiratory intervention programmes and training in this specialist field of practice. To undertake the role of inpatient paediatric respiratory lead that includes, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the inpatient paediatric therapy service. The post holder will undertake clinical audits, evaluating evidence-based practice, and endeavour to source high quality, up to date research within this specialist area. To support, co-ordinate, supervise and appraise staff and students within the specialist area. Applicants will be required to participate in the departmental
respiratory adult and paediatric overnight on-call system and 7 day working rota within the adult and paediatric respiratory therapy teams. This post is based at our Heartlands site, however, as the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis because of development or reorganisation of Trust services.

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