Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist

Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals Trust are actively recruiting for a motivated and dynamic Band 7 Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to join our Acute Respiratory, Critical Care and Surgery (ARCCS) Team as the lead physiotherapist for surgery and vascular. As a Band 7 Physiotherapist in a large and busy team you will be required to demonstrate strong leadership skills and be confident to work as an autonomous practitioner with a focus on early assessment and discharge planning with rapid and robust decision-making essential for efficient patient flow. The role will include the flexibility to work across both sites joining a well-established, supportive team. The position involves coordinating the dynamic clinical service to the general Surgical and Vascular wards working alongside the Respiratory and Critical Care Band 7 therapists as an intrinsic member of the MDT with support from Clinical Leads as required. We strongly support Continuing Professional
Development and you will be supported in your role directly by your Clinical Leads. Peer support will also be provided by the existing B7 Occupational Therapists and Physiotherapists. You will be required to undertake Respiratory on-call/ weekend duties on both sites following a period of induction and participate in the 7-day therapy service., To provide specialist assessment, treatment and advice to patients within surgical and vascular inpatient areas with support to critical care, respiratory and paediatrics as required. Also, contribute to amputee outpatient clinics as required, facilitating and maximising patient potential within the service boundaries. To link with the wider medical wards, to give support and guidance as required.

To give highly specialist guidance, advice and education to other members of the Multidisciplinary Team (MDT) on matters relating to your specialist area.

Provide leadership for surgical and vascular team (in conjunction with the Clinical Lead for ARCCS) in planning, coordinating, delivering and evaluating the physiotherapy service provided to patients within the surgical and vascular wards. This may include cross-site working.

We're an organisation that is getting better and better. We were the most improved Trust in England for A&E performance in 2023/24; we're no longer in special measures; and Matthew Trainer, our Chief Executive, has been named the top CEO by the Health Service Journal. Our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we're proud of and that our patients are happy with.

Many of our 8,000 staff - who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and the majority are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. More than 400 of them are on apprenticeship programmes and we're proud to be a London Living Wage employer.

We operate from two main sites - King George Hospital (KGH) in Goodmayes and Queen's Hospital in Romford. We have two of the busiest emergency departments in London - more than 300,000 people visited our A&Es in 2023.

Patients across north east London are benefitting from two new state of the art theatres at KGH and our Community Diagnostic Centres at Barking Community Hospital and St George's Health and Wellbeing Hub will significantly increase the number of scans that can be carried out.

We're looking forward to introducing an electronic patient record next year. This will mean the records of any patient visiting one of the seven hospitals run by BHRUT and Barts Health will be accessible to the clinical teams. It'll make things easier for staff and will be better for patients.