Senior Physiotherapist - Paeds Cystic Fibrosis & Respiratory
| Posting date: | 11 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £46,148.00 to £52,809.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £46148.00 - £52809.00 a year |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 02 July 2025 |
| Location: | london, SE5 9RS |
| Company: | NHS Jobs |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | C9213-25-0643 |
Summary
To be responsible for the efficient, effective and safe management of all patients referred to the service. To receive referrals, undertake full assessment and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programs for patients appropriately depending on the physiotherapists diagnosis, using clinical reasoning and a variety of highly specialist skills such as use of respiratory and ventilatory adjuncts, advanced airway clearance techniques and acute rehabilitation To carry a clinical caseload of babies and children with CF and respiratory conditions in a variety of environments including, out-patient clinics and in patient wards including the medical, surgical & liver wards, NICU, PICU &HDU. This may occasionally include some work at outreach clinics in other hospitals, or at the childs home, nursery or school . Out patient clinics include CF clinics bi weekly, Bronchiectasis clinics monthly and NIV monthly. To work closely with the Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) and larger CF team of AHPs and Doctors in the CF and respiratory service. To be involved in the process of instigating airway clearance, provision, teaching and management of any specialist respiratory equipment. The physiotherapists at Kings provide and manage the nebuliser service. The role therefore will include, drug response testing, and issuing nebuliser devices with due regard to safety of the equipment, and in line with legal, national and local guidelines. To prioritise work efficiently taking into account clinical and service priorities using highly specialist knowledge to underpin decisions. To provide specialist recommendations or second opinion of clinical management and expert advice to the MDT and to shared-care clinic staff at other hospitals, including peers and consultants, and external organisations. To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of own work, and of the team, including management of clinical risk, knowledge of indications and precautions of chosen techniques in line with national and trust clinical guidelines, protocols and pathways where they exist. To use recognized outcome measures to evaluate the effect of the physiotherapy interventions and ensure the treatment programmes are progressing appropriately. To develop new working practices and local guidelines and keep abreast of new techniques in relation to the management of the patients in this specialty particularly in line with any national guidance e.g. ACPCF Standards of Care, APCP National Standards of Care etc. To lead on production of clinical guidelines and local policies ensuring they are evidence-based, implemented and audited. To provide guidance and advice to other professions and bodies involved in the provision of cystic fibrosis and respiratory services, and to the patients and their families. This post requires a flexible approach to working, and requires the post holder to be an active member of the weekend duty rotas, and cover of statutory and public holidays