Senior Physiotherapist - Acute Respiratory Team

Job summary

Bedford Hospital offers a rare and exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated Senior Physiotherapist to join our dynamic and forward thinking Acute Respiratory Team.

The successful candidate will work within the busy Intensive care unit and respiratory wards. You will use your advanced physiotherapy assessment and treatment skills to support patients presenting with a wide range of urgent and complex needs.

We are looking for an energetic and forward-thinking physiotherapist who is passionate about delivering high-quality, patient-centred care. You will play a key role in supporting timely patient flow, ensuring patients are appropriately assessed, treated and supported to transition safely between ITU to the wards, and from the wards to community settings.

Main duties of the job

Please see the attached job description or scroll further down to find information about the main duties of this job.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our valuesWe not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job responsibilities

The Job Description and Person Specification are attached to this job, please review for the full details and responsibilities

• Undertake the physiotherapy assessment and management of patients within the acute respiratory physiotherapy speciality.
• Determine clinical diagnosis or need and the physiotherapy intervention indicated.
• Hold responsibility for their own caseload, as an autonomous practitioner and oversee caseloads of more junior staff. They will ensure all patients are managed this using evidence based and patient centred principles.
• Assess, plan, treat and evaluate patient centred interventions. Deliver an individualised treatment programme and ensure the Physiotherapy requirements for the discharge planning process are delivered in a timely manner.
• To work alongside members of the multidisciplinary team to deliver physiotherapy services to patients within the specialities of the work place. This will include patients with multi-pathology and complex needs.
• To supervise, educate and assess the performance of undergraduate physiotherapy students as required ensuring the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.
• Access advice and support from a senior staff to ensure their clinical work is evaluated.
• The post holder will also be required to actively participate in the out of hours on-call respiratory physiotherapy rota and to support the development of junior staff.

Please refer to the attached JD file for full information.

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

• Physiotherapy Degree or Equivalent
• HCPC Registration

Experience

Essential

• Relevant physiotherapy experience across a range of core clinical specialities, including rotational experience or equivalent experience in a similar role.
• Previously experience working within acute environments such as Critical Care/ITU.
• Experience supervising junior and support staff
• Experience working with acutely unwell patients and ability to treat patients who require respiratory physiotherapy intervention

Desirable

• Clinical educator experience
• Weekend rota experience

Knowledge

Essential

• Able to present information, written and orally in a clear logical manner
• Ability to organise, prioritise and delegate
• Demonstrated knowledge and ability to treat patients effectively using evidence based practice