Senior Physiotherapist

Job summary

The integrated community respiratory team provide a number of services - COPD, Home oxygen, Pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory physio.

We are a team of nurses, physios and skilled assistant staff. We cover all of NE Essex so access to a car and a driving licence is essential.

We provide clinic based, class based and home based care, with the aim of supporting people to have quality of life and be able to self manage their conditions.

We are seeking a physiotherapist to join our service. Ideally you should have experience in treating people living with long term respiratory conditions such as COPD, bronchiectasis and Pulmonary fibrosis or be able to show transferable skills.

In the role you will learn competencies to delivery pulmonary rehabilitation classes, assess and review home oxygen, support respiratory physio outpatient clinics and COPD service where we support to optimise patients management.

This is an exciting role where you can develop enhanced practice skills with the support of the team

Main duties of the job

Act as a specialist resource for the integrated team, carrying out single assessments, and contributing to the development and delivery of the integrated care plan.

Develop programmes of specialist therapeutic activities, weighing options and delegating aspects of care as appropriate

Implement specialist aspects of the care plan, potentially acting as care coordinator and reviewing the plan on behalf of the integrated team.

Support patients with advice, information, persuasion and direction to community resources to encourage self-management and ongoing independence.

Provide support, training and advice to patients, parents and carers.

Manage the performance and oversee the work of more junior staff, assistants, students and volunteers

Manage the work of the team, deputising for more senior managers as required

About us

We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.

We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.

We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.

Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.

Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.

We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.

If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.

Find out about living and working here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A

Job responsibilities

For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.

Due to the nature of community work & the community locations for our clinics, a driving licence & access to a car are essential.

Person specification

Experience

Essential

• Proven experience within respiratory sector and patients

Desirable

• Competencies relevant to specialism
• Experience of managing the work of others
• Community experience
• Previous experience of home oxygen
• Previous experience of pulmonary rehabilitation

Qualifications

Essential

• Registered with HCPC
• Professional knowledge and Skills acquired through a combination of formal training, short courses and experience to degree level or equivalent
• Relevant post qualification training through short courses and/or further study and experience for example splinting and injections, working towards post graduate level of study
• Evidence of on-going CPD

Desirable

• Member of appropriate clinical networks
• Recognised registered qualification and further courses and experience relevant to role
• COPD post graduate module

Knowledge

Essential

• Good theoretical and practical knowledge of a broad range of assessments including specialist relevant to the specialist care group and the relative benefits of each
• Good knowledge of a range of specialist therapeutic interventions relevant to the care group including the relative benefits of each and the comparative outcomes.
• Awareness of national guidance relevant to own specialities, including, consent issues, and other legal frameworks relating to care group
• Understanding of the roles of other professionals.
• Knowledge of standards of record keeping.
• Knowledge of the current evidence based practice