Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist | Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

The post with be overseen by our Band 7 Bronchiectasis Specialist Physiotherapist, who will provide clinical supervision & CPD time. The post is excluded from on-call responsibilities & services function Monday to Friday in core hours of 08:00 to 17:00 (flexible whilst meeting service needs/specification). We encourage potential applicants to reach out for an informal chat during the application & interview process on the numbers/emails below. Please see Job Description & Person Spec for fuller details TheBand 6 Specialist Physiotherapistrole is a highly specialisedrole, designed to provide expert assessment, review, advice, education & medicines optimisation to patients with specific respiratory diseases &homeoxygentherapy. You willbe requiredto practice in a self-directed manner, with confidence and authority. You will exercise a freedom to act in the absence of & alongside the consultant teams, to direct and guide patient care and treatment, with the support of the Service Leads.Maintaineffective working relationships with a wide range of staff, ensuring effective communication about complex issues and/or in difficult situationswithappropriate professionalism, diplomacy, and sensitivity. You will improve organisational agility and resilience, by delivering comprehensive care across organisational and professional boundaries, between the divisions, directorates, and clinical areas. The post holder will provide supervision, teaching,and support to junior medical, nursing, allied health professionals,and physiotherapy studentsthroughout the trust.Where directed by the BronchiectasisServiceLead, deputise with aspects of their responsibilities in their absence where appropriate & competent.The post holder willbe requiredto undertakeSpecialist Physiotherapyclinics,undertake assessment& review of Home Oxygen, &support delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitationassessments &classes. Working for Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust will provide you with lots of opportunity to develop your skills and further your career. The Trust provides services to the 440,000 residents of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre and North Lancashire. As a Trust we are committed to:

• Developing new roles and ways of working to ensure a flexible and innovative approach to staff.
• Real equality of opportunity.
• Continual development and learning for staff.
• Achieving a work life balance.
We are committed to the effective recruitment, retention and development for our employees, which is why we offer a great working environment, an attractive range of benefits and excellent opportunities for training and development. The Trust is accredited as a disability Confident employer. That means we recognise our obligations to ensure people with disabilities are afforded equal opportunity to enter employment and progress if and where possible.
• Provide expert assessment, review, advice, education & medicines optimisation to patients with specific respiratory diseases, using advanced clinical reasoning skills.
• Formulate & deliverindividualised physiotherapy treatment programmes based onassessment findings.
• Safelyinitiatingor recommendingnew treatments including nebulisers, mucolyticsand inhaled therapy.
• Under the direction of the Team Lead, you will be prepared to support the unqualified PR team members with a specific respiratory disease cohort and all aspects that come under it, within your competency.
• The post holder willbe requiredto run Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes independently & in a self-directed manner across Trust sites & non-NHS trust sites (e.g.,Sports Centres, Community/Church Halls),and will therefore require a driving license & vehicle to undertake this work.
• The post holder willbe requiredto undertake clinic &home basedassessments of patients requiring home oxygentherapy,andwill therefore require a driving license & vehicle to undertake this work.
• Undertake advanced assessment of patients and effectively interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical information in a range of complex, long-term diagnoses to develop comprehensive, patient-centred management plans.
• Take active responsibility for an identifiable caseload of patients effectively and efficiently,demonstratingthe ability to manage complex cases.
• Provides support, reassurance and encouragement to patients and theirfamily/carers.
  
  We are keen to recruit a highly motivated individual who is looking to develop themselves in a specialist area, whilst forming part of our growing therapist workforce, within our Bronchiectasis, Home Oxygen & the Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Alongside the Band 7 Bronchiectasis Specialist Physiotherapist, you will help support them with service developments., Disability Confident
About Disability Confident A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.