Highly Specialist Physiotherapist - Adult Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia
| Posting date: | 23 February 2026 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £56,276 - £63,176 p.a. inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 28 March 2026 |
| Location: | London, SW3 6NP |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7798386/196-LIS10318M |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
The Royal Brompton Hospital provides one of the UK’s largest specialist adult Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) services, delivering highly specialised, multidisciplinary care to adults with this rare, complex respiratory condition. The service supports a large regional and national caseload, offering outpatient and inpatient care, long-term disease management, and close collaboration with paediatric and local respiratory teams.
The adult PCD service is delivered by an experienced multidisciplinary team including respiratory consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, and administrative staff. The service provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient care, diagnostic review, long-term disease management, exacerbation support, and education to enable patients to self-manage their condition effectively.
Physiotherapy is a core and integral component of the adult PCD service, playing a key role in assessment, treatment planning, and long-term management, with a strong focus on airway clearance, exercise / physical activity promotion, and patient education. Physiotherapists work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, contributing to service development, clinical leadership, audit, and research, to ensure the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality care aligned with national and international standards for PCD management.
The post holder will be a highly specialist clinician with responsibility for the planning, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the adult PCD service on a day-to-day basis.This is primarily in an outpatient setting, day case and virtual clinics.They will work across the Adult PCD service and be based within the adult CF / PCD therapy team. They will work alongside fellow band 7 physiotherapists and will provide support and leadership to rotational band 5 and band 6 physiotherapists, as well as an exercise practitioner.
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.We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts.
Royal Brompton and Harefield 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.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Ourvalueshelp us to define and develop our culture,what we doandhow we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.Our values are: We Are
· Caring– we put patients first
· Ambitious– we innovate and strive for excellence
· Inclusive– we respect each other and work collaboratively
The role will involve:
• Taking a lead role as an autonomous practitioner within the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of adults with PCD. This will include patients who may have highly complex needs,acute, chronic, disabling and life limiting conditions. Interventions may include, but are not limited to, the management of complex airway clearance, optimising non-invasive ventilation, drug-response assessments, exercise prescription and supporting patients at end-of-life.
• Leading in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the PCD and wider respiratory physiotherapy service.
• Multidisciplinary team working and consultation with staff, including doctors, nurses, wider PCD MDT, and other members of the CF/PCD therapy team
• Being a highly specialist resource and providing education and training to medical and other multi-disciplinary staff, both within PCD and the wider R&T team
• Supervising and line managing junior members of the adult CF/PCD and/or respiratory medicine physiotherapy teams.
• Maintaining collective responsibility for the continuing professional development and overall performance of all physiotherapy staff in the adult CF/PCD therapy service.
• Deputising for the Adult CF Clinical Speciality Lead when required.
• Utilising quality improvement and research skills for audit, policy and service development, as well as clinical research.
• Working clinically across respiratory medicine services with ability to lead in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory medicine patients including sleep and ventilation, asthma, CF, bronchiectasis and ILD.
Further information about the role, duties and responsibilities are outlined within the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Mar 2026
The Royal Brompton Hospital provides one of the UK’s largest specialist adult Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) services, delivering highly specialised, multidisciplinary care to adults with this rare, complex respiratory condition. The service supports a large regional and national caseload, offering outpatient and inpatient care, long-term disease management, and close collaboration with paediatric and local respiratory teams.
The adult PCD service is delivered by an experienced multidisciplinary team including respiratory consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, and administrative staff. The service provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient care, diagnostic review, long-term disease management, exacerbation support, and education to enable patients to self-manage their condition effectively.
Physiotherapy is a core and integral component of the adult PCD service, playing a key role in assessment, treatment planning, and long-term management, with a strong focus on airway clearance, exercise / physical activity promotion, and patient education. Physiotherapists work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, contributing to service development, clinical leadership, audit, and research, to ensure the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality care aligned with national and international standards for PCD management.
The post holder will be a highly specialist clinician with responsibility for the planning, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the adult PCD service on a day-to-day basis.This is primarily in an outpatient setting, day case and virtual clinics.They will work across the Adult PCD service and be based within the adult CF / PCD therapy team. They will work alongside fellow band 7 physiotherapists and will provide support and leadership to rotational band 5 and band 6 physiotherapists, as well as an exercise practitioner.
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.We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts.
Royal Brompton and Harefield 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.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Ourvalueshelp us to define and develop our culture,what we doandhow we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust.Our values are: We Are
· Caring– we put patients first
· Ambitious– we innovate and strive for excellence
· Inclusive– we respect each other and work collaboratively
The role will involve:
• Taking a lead role as an autonomous practitioner within the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of adults with PCD. This will include patients who may have highly complex needs,acute, chronic, disabling and life limiting conditions. Interventions may include, but are not limited to, the management of complex airway clearance, optimising non-invasive ventilation, drug-response assessments, exercise prescription and supporting patients at end-of-life.
• Leading in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the PCD and wider respiratory physiotherapy service.
• Multidisciplinary team working and consultation with staff, including doctors, nurses, wider PCD MDT, and other members of the CF/PCD therapy team
• Being a highly specialist resource and providing education and training to medical and other multi-disciplinary staff, both within PCD and the wider R&T team
• Supervising and line managing junior members of the adult CF/PCD and/or respiratory medicine physiotherapy teams.
• Maintaining collective responsibility for the continuing professional development and overall performance of all physiotherapy staff in the adult CF/PCD therapy service.
• Deputising for the Adult CF Clinical Speciality Lead when required.
• Utilising quality improvement and research skills for audit, policy and service development, as well as clinical research.
• Working clinically across respiratory medicine services with ability to lead in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory medicine patients including sleep and ventilation, asthma, CF, bronchiectasis and ILD.
Further information about the role, duties and responsibilities are outlined within the attached job description.
This advert closes on Monday 9 Mar 2026