Physiotherapy Team Lead for Lung Defence

This 12-month, fixed term post is an excellent opportunity to act as lead clinician and highly specialist lung defence team lead. You will ensure a high-quality Physiotherapy service provision to in-patient and out-patient respiratory medical patients within the Trust. With support from the Physiotherapy Service Lead and Band 6 Deputy Team Leader, the post-holder will have direct responsibility for co-ordination, provision and development of the Lung Defence service. The post holder will report to the Physiotherapy Service Lead.

This role provides the individual with a fantastic opportunity to work with key stakeholders and the wider Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection MDT to advance the service provided and coordinate high quality patient care.

The individual will work collaboratively with the Physiotherapy Service Lead and Team Leads in Cystic Fibrosis, and the Respiratory Sleep and Support Centre to ensure cohesive service provision across respiratory medicine., This post offers the opportunity to continue development of both clinical, leadership and people management skills in this specialist area. Within this role, the post holder will engage in audit and research and support colleagues with their own service improvement work. There are opportunities to gain experience in specialist Physiotherapy groups and engage in further CPD.The post-holder will act as Team Lead Physiotherapy clinician in a highly specialised area of Lung Defence, to ensure provision of a safe and evidenced based physiotherapy service to patients within the Trust. The main duties of the role will include:

Use advanced clinical reasoning skills to assess and treat complex patients

Collaboration with wider MDT to enhance patient pathways

Lead audit, research, and service improvement projects

Leading the Lung Defence Physiotherapy Team

Supporting colleagues to advance their clinical reasoning skills to achieve rotational goals and/or advanced competencies

Providing teaching to physio colleagues and the wider Cambridge Centre for Lung Infection MDT

Attend department management meetings and work closely with other Team Leads and Deputy Team Leads to coordinate service provision

Exploring opportunities to provide teaching outside the Trust

Seeking out CPD opportunities i.e. conferences and courses

Do you have an interest in caring for adults with Lung defence (Bronchiectasis, Immunology and Interstitial Lung Disease)?

Do you have experience working in Respiratory Medicine?

Do you want to advance your specialist knowledge in bronchiectasis and experience working across both in and out-patient settings?

Do you want to be part of an expanding service and multi-disciplinary team?

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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