Physiotherapist Advanced | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
| Posting date: | 14 August 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £47,810.00-£54,710.00 Per Annum (PA) Pro Rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 13 September 2025 |
| Location: | Southampton, SO16 6YD |
| Company: | University Hospital Southampton NHS FT |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7418889/188-CL100825 |
Summary
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust is delighted to offer a fantastic opportunity to work with us.
Please see below for detailed job description of the role.
We are looking for a highly motivated and skilled respiratory physiotherapist with proven experience in paediatrics, good communication and problem-solving skills, to join our team treating children with long term respiratory conditions.
The postholder will work alongside a team of experienced respiratory paediatric physiotherapists and extensive MDT, managing children with long term respiratory conditions. The post offers the opportunity to work in a variety of acute and community settings to cover inpatients, clinics, outpatients, home, community or school visits, both independently, and in conjunction with specialist teams.
The team provides a therapy service to children with a variety of chronic respiratory conditions including Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia, Non-Cystic Fibrosis related Bronchiectasis, Difficult Asthma, Cystic Fibrosis, Neuromuscular and LTV.
You will be supported within the specialities by a B8a clinical specialist and B7 specialist Paediatric therapists allowing excellent opportunity for developing clinical and theoretical skills, service development, audits, teaching and research. You will work in a friendly, dynamic and proactive paediatric Therapy team over
40 wte, in conjunction with the wider Therapy services department of over 300 staff.
We provide a 7-day therapy service and work weekends and bank holidays, on a rota basis, including participating in our respiratory out of hours service (On-call) working across adults and paediatrics.
University Hospital Southampton is one of England's largest acute teaching Trusts, offering a wide range of learning and development opportunities to support your career aspirations.
Located on the south coast with an international airport and direct rail links to London, Southampton offers an ideal setting to live and work, with the New Forest, South Downs and Jurassic Coast.
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At UHSwe’re committed to providing a flexible working environment where possible. Whether you are balancing family, study, or your wellbeing with your career, we want to support you so you can help our patients.
At UHS, we proudly champion individuality, recognizing that outstanding care is only possible with a diverse, inclusive team. We’re committed to creating an anti-racist, anti-discriminatory environment where everyone feels valued, safe, and empowered to make a meaningful impact in our communities. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences to join us in building a healthcare community where everyone can belong, thrive, and contribute.
If you are interested in this amazing opportunity, please read the job description and person specification to ensure you have the skills and experience we are looking for, including someone who is
• enthusiastic, dynamic, flexible, forward thinking
• a fun individual with excellent communication and team working skills
• passionate about working with children and young people with long term respiratory conditions
• flexible to work at weekends and be participate on the acute respiratory On-call service, with adult and children, working across the intensive, high care and acute wards.
The key duties of this post are:
• Therapy assessment and treatment to children of all ages including adolescents with cardio-respiratory conditions, with a specific emphasis on children with CF/Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and other long term respiratory conditions. This will include local clinics in Southampton and regional clinics throughout South-West England) and appointments via video consultation
• Physiotherapy input to the PCD diagnostic and MDT follow-up service, and includes history taking, PCD diagnostic procedures to both children and adults, managing the physiotherapy aspect of PCD care
• As a specialist centre for CF/ PCD, provide expert advice to hospitals across the UK, attend outreach clinics and work in conjunction with the other specialist centres.
• Develop and co-coordinate respiratory physiotherapy inpatient, outpatient and clinic services-providing assessment and treatment for a range of respiratory conditions including exercise testing, lung function, and classes where appropriate.
• Supervise, initiate and participate in clinical audit and evidence-based projects and implement changes within paediatric cardio-respiratory care, setting and monitoring standards of practice
Our team prides itself in providing support, progression and development, with the successful post holder expected to work within our team philosophy:
“We strongly believe in team working in a happy working environment. Workloads are shared and communication/ support is strongly encouraged. We are mutually responsible for the service and its development and expect everyone to carry out a certain level of responsibility.”.
Essential skills and experience needed for this post:
As well as the person specification we are also looking for the following skills and experience related to this specific post:
• Experienced Physiotherapist with a broad range of post-qualification respiratory experience
• Comprehensive experience within paediatrics.
• Experience at B6 or B7 level working in respiratory care
• Proven, documented experience in doing shifts within an acute respiratory on-call service, including intensive care, in both adults and children
• Clear expressed desire on your application to work at UHS therapy services and within paediatrics
• Excellent communication skills: to enable close working relationships being able to adapt their communication to meet the child’s, family, and MDT needs considering their age and development
• Be able to work with children with complex needs using different equipment and working in different positions and environments. This includes working on the floor, being water-confident in the hydrotherapy pool and therapeutically handling patients.
• Car driver, for working between hospital sites, home and school visits. Please note some clinics can necessitate overnight stays secondary to their location i.e Cornwall
Please note:
• Interviews will be face to face only due to practical skills assessments, including working with equipment.
• We do not accept CV applications.
If this post is not for you and you are interested in other therapy opportunities, please e-mail: Annette.Purkis@uhs.nhs.uk
We welcome enquiries and are happy to answer any questions you may have.
This advert closes on Thursday 28 Aug 2025