Specialist Physiotherapist

This is an exciting opportunity to work within the CHFT multi-disciplinary specialist respiratory team. The post holder will deliver pulmonary rehabilitation and self management groups to patients with chronic respiratory conditions and long covid. The team delivers a community pulmonary rehabilitation service that supports and promotes optimal self-care. This service may be delivered to a cohort in a class setting, individually tailored home based rehabilitation as part of a supported discharge pathway, or virtually using digital and remote platforms.

The Team is also an integral part of the Calderdale post covid triage and assessment service. The post holder will also be involved in the face to face triage clinic and be present at the weekly multidisciplinary team meeting. They will lead in the assessment of the patients for the Self-management groups and will work in conjunction with an OT to co-lead the groups. The post holder will provide exercise prescription both within the group and for individuals on a one to one basis ether face to face or virtually, occasionally this will be within the patients' own home.

Previous NHS physiotherapy experience either as an undergraduate or postgraduate within the core area of both respiratory physiotherapy and long covid.

Main duties of the job

To provide specialist assessment of patients with chronic respiratory disease including exercise testing and provide appropriate treatment to individuals in a variety of settings.

To work within the community respiratory multidisciplinary team to promote self management and hospital avoidance in patients with chronic respiratory disease.

To provide ambulatory oxygen assessments to both chronic respiratory and long covid patients.

To provide specialist multidiciplinary assessments of patients with suspected long covid syndrome and develop appropriate treatment plans to include exercise prescription.

To be a member of the post covid multidiscplinary team meeting informing on other referrals required and rehabilitation suitability.

To be the lead of a community based pulmonary rehabilitation group.

To be the co-lead of a community based self management programme for long covid with a specialism in exercise prescription.

We employ more than 6,500 staffwho deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, healthcentres and in patients' homes. We also are incredibly proud to have almost 150 volunteers here at CHFT.

We provide a range of services including urgent and emergency care; medical; surgical; maternity; gynaecology; critical care; children's and young people's services; end of life care and outpatient and diagnostic imaging services.

We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.

We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation.Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS- yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boardslisten to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members - patients, staff andthe local community.

Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in thechanges to the local community needs, in striving to be the best, and in putting their patients first.