Highly Specialist Physiotherapist -Acute Respiratory & Critical Care

We are looking for Physiotherapist to join our committed and friendly team at the Whittington Hospital. We need you to be a respiratory specialist with advanced knowledge & skills of delivering outstanding & compassionate physiotherapy treatment to patients in ICU & across Respiratory, General Acute & Paediatric wards.

You will be an integral part of the ICU team responsible for the delivery of therapy to patients in critical care demonstrating clinical expertise in both the acute management of respiratory compromise & rehabilitation of patients following critical illness.

You will also work closely with our excellent Respiratory consultants to deliver the NIV service & be involved in regular audit, & development work in support of this.

We provide a specialised respiratory out-patient service where you will co-manage a caseload of primarily patients with bronchiectasis alongside the Clinical Respiratory Lead Physiotherapist.

The role has weekend & on call commitments on a rota basis.

As a skilled & passionate educator, you will support the service to develop the next generation of respiratory physiotherapists, delivering competency based & in situ training with patients to ensure Band 5's and 6's are confident & prepared to treat & manage patients with complex respiratory presentations.

You will receive regular supervision & dedicated support to enable you to meet the responsibilities of this role and we will actively support your professional and clinical development.

Main duties of the job

To be responsible for therapy provision across Respiratory and Critical Care services & general acute wards.

Deliver clinical expertise in both the acute management of respiratory compromise & rehabilitation of patients following critical illness.

Undertake advanced assessment & treatment of patients who may have complex &/or chronic presentation.

Determine clinical diagnosis & physiotherapy treatment indicated, working autonomously.

Be the lead physiotherapist for the Non-Invasive ventilation (NIV) service, including routine audit of all NIV set ups in conjunction with the Lead NIV consultant.

Represent Physiotherapy at the ITU Clinical Governance meeting.

Be responsible for providing Paediatric respiratory physiotherapy cover, working in close collaboration with the Paediatric physiotherapy lead.

To have delegated responsibility from the Respiratory Clinical Lead for the management & leadership of staff on the on-call rota providing support & expert advice during working hours & some evenings & weekends

To manage an out-patient caseload of patients with primarily bronchiectasis & a small cohort with dysfunctional breathing, working closely with referring respiratory consultant teams & colleagues.

To support the operational team management of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Apprentices & Assistants in conjunction with peer colleagues.

Whittington Health serves a richly diverse population and works hard to ensure that all our services are fair and equally accessible to everyone. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the way we look after our staff. We aim to employ a workforce which is as representative as possible of this population, so we are open to the value of differences in age, disability, gender, marital status, pregnancy and maternity, race, sexual orientation, and religion or belief. The Trustbelieves that as a public sector organisation we have an obligation to have recruitment, training, promotion and other formal employment policies and procedures that are sensitive to these differences. We think that by doing so, we are better able to treat our patients as well as being a better place to work.