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Highly Specialist Paediatric Outpatient Respiratory Physiotherapist

Manylion swydd
Dyddiad hysbysebu: 15 May 2024
Cyflog: Heb ei nodi
Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inc. HCAS (Pro-rata)
Oriau: Full time
Dyddiad cau: 14 June 2024
Lleoliad: London, SW3 6NP
Cwmni: Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust
Math o swydd: Permanent
Cyfeirnod swydd: 6289760/196-LIS8464

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A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.


We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled, and forward-thinking Band 7 Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our paediatric physiotherapy team.

The post holder will work as an integral and active part of the Paediatric Physiotherapy team in the provision of a patient-centred outpatient service that includes a caseload of general paediatric respiratory outpatients, patients with primary ciliary dyskinesia and cystic fibrosis.

In this role you will work alongside some of the top cardio-respiratory specialist health care practitioners in the UK and Europe. You will contribute to the maintenance and development of the Physiotherapy Service in conjunction with the Clinical lead for Paediatric Physiotherapy at the Royal Brompton Hospital. Teamwork and excellent communication skills are vital to the role, you will also be supported by the fantastic wider Paediatric multidisciplinary team.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. We provide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.

Due to the strong commitment to evidence-based practice throughout the Trust, CPD and study leave will be well supported, and involvement in audit, research and policy development is encouraged and facilitated.

To be responsible in a team leader role alongside the clinical lead in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Physiotherapy service provided in particular to children with respiratory conditions in the outpatient clinics at Royal Brompton on a day to day basis.

Manage a caseload of patients with highly complex needs, using evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. Provide this service with a caseload of complex cases as an autonomous practitioner, demonstrating high-level problem solving and clinical reasoning skills, and independence in judgement.

To support the clinical lead in providing leadership for senior and junior staff, through regular supervision and annual appraisal. Contribute to the maintenance and development of the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service. To support the Clinical Lead to ensure the continuing professional development and overall performance of all physiotherapy staff in paediatrics and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/process improvement project groups.

To use validated and appropriate outcome measures and set individualised patient goals.

Supervise, educate and assess the performance of physiotherapy students; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with Universities to ensure standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by degree level qualification.

Supervise, educate and assess the performance of junior physiotherapy staff to ensure theoretical and clinical knowledge meets departmental standards.

Undertake evidence-based audit, formulate guidelines and research projects to further own and department clinical practice within each rotation.


This advert closes on Wednesday 22 May 2024

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