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Band 7 Critical Care Highly Specialist Physiotherapist | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 07 June 2024 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £51,488 - £57,802 per annum inclusive of HCAS |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2024 |
| Location: | Hampstead, NW3 2QG |
| Company: | Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 6364997/391-RFL-6364997 |
Summary
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a band 7 (1 WTE, 37.5 hours) specialist rehabilitation and respiratory physiotherapist to join our existing Intensive Care multi-disciplinary team (on a 12 month fixed term basis). The Royal Free (NHS Foundation Trust) ICU presently consists of a 54-bed state of the art unit, including an 8 bed High Dependency Unit (HDU) and 12 bed Post Anaesthetic Care Unit (PACU). A wide variety of patients from specialist services including hepatobiliary (HPB)/vascular surgery and liver/renal transplantation are admitted to these units.
The postholder will sit within the largest therapy team (CMS- critical care, medicine, and surgery) at the Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust site. This team comprises of more than 50 multi-professional team members working within an interdisciplinary model; in a co-located environment covering critical care, HPB/surgical wards, medical wards/sleep and ventilation. As the Royal Free is a designated highly infective disease centre, the post holder will also gain opportunity to work in the only active High Level Isolation Unit (HLIU) within the country, treating conditions such as Ebola virus.
Support is provided by a clinical lead band 8 ICU physiotherapist, clinical lead speech and language therapist and 3 band 7 peers, as well as our specialist respiratory physiotherapy consultant. The postholder will be directly responsible for the provision of physiotherapy to intensive care patients with a significant emphasis on complex respiratory management, rehabilitation and ventilation/tracheostomy weaning. As a progressive team we have a physiotherapy ACP post (independent prescriber) within critical care, a lung ultrasound accredited physiotherapist (mentor) with a special interest in progressing physiotherapists in lung ultrasound and several multi-professional team members have gained post graduate master’s qualification. As a result, we are equipped to progress and support senior staff members on their chosen career path in ICU.
The post holder will provide training and education to the CMS team as well as to the wider multi-disciplinary team with an emphasis on SIM, whilst also leading QI projects. The importance of staff development and training is paramount within the CMS team. Regular presentation at national and international conferences is ongoing and we are a research active therapy department, with designated research and education leads, alongside a designated clinical trial co-ordinator. This provides opportunity for undertaking associate principal investigator schemes through NIHR. Additionally, the trust provides excellent in-house leadership training programs and access to coaching and mentorship. These are especially important as the post holder will not only line manage staff within there own profession, but due to our interdisciplinary model, they will also manage those within other professions.
Please see attached job description for more information about this role and working at Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust.
This advert closes on Friday 21 Jun 2024