Specialist Physiotherapist: Critical Care

Job summary

We have an exciting opportunity for a Critical Care Band 7 Specialist Physiotherapist to join our team on the St Mary's site as part of the wider critical care therapy service at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.

Our friendly department is full of opportunity for a dynamic, enthusiastic physiotherapist who wishes to progress specialist clinical expertise and leadership skills within a critcal care unit within a London-based trust. This post would be based within critcal care at St Marys Hospital.

This would include a wide variety of patients on critical care including major trauma, neuro-surgical, vascular and medicine.

We are looking for an experienced Band 6 or current Band 7 Physiotherapist, with a keen interest in the field of critical care physiotherapy. You will have a wide range of clinical experience, good communication skills, interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering excellent patient centred care. You will have the opportunity to develop your specialist skills and knowledge in the areas of respiratory physiotherapy including NIV, ventilator and tracheostomy weaning and rehabilitation within the critical care.

You must be able to participate in 7 days working and evening on calls.

Main duties of the job

• To provide clinical leadership alongside the Clinical Lead Therapist in the planning, organisation, co-ordination, delivery, evaluation and development of the critical care / surgical / medical physiotherapy service throughout the hospital, on a day-to-day basis.
• To take a leading role in the advanced physiotherapy assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have complex needs or presentation. To provide expert opinions on weaning and rehabilitation of patients in critical care.
• To undertake a significant clinical caseload working at a specialist level with other agencies and health professionals and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To maintain and develop a level of expertise within the speciality and as a senior clinician play an active part in the post graduate training of physiotherapists, physiotherapy students and other members of the healthcare team.
• To actively support the development and evaluation of clinical practice by postgraduate education, clinical audit and research.
• To work with other senior clinicians and team leaders within physiotherapy to provide integrated care across the specialist areas and between acute and community services.
• To be responsible for service development within the team, to implement policy and policy changes within the clinical area in partnership with the Clinical Service Lead, physiotherapy and MDT colleagues.
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About us

At Imperial College Healthcare you can achieve extraordinary things with extraordinary people, working with leading clinicians pushing boundaries in patient care.

Become part of a vibrant team living our values - expert, kind, collaborative and aspirational. You'll get an experience like no other and will fast forward your career.Benefits include career development, flexible working and wellbeing, staff recognition scheme. Make use of optional benefits including Cycle to Work, car lease schemes, season ticket loan or membership options for onsite leisure facilities.

We are committed to equal opportunities and improving the working lives of our staff and will consider applications to work flexibly, part time or job share. Please talk to us at interview.

Environmental sustainabilityClimate change and poor air quality is a health emergency that harms people's health and wellbeing and widens health inequalities. The Trust is also committed to reducing its impact on the environment by reducing our greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2045. All our employees have a role to play, and we have an active green network that supports staff to act in ways that ensures that our services are efficient, sustainable and reduce our impact on the environment www.imperial.nhs.uk/about-us/our-strategy/green-plan.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required.

For both overviews, please view the Job Description attachment with the job advert.

Person specification

Education/ Qualifications

Essential

• Degree (or equivalent) in Physiotherapy
• State registration with the Health Professions Council
• Evidence of CPD through maintenance of a portfolio, especially in the relevant clinical area
• Clinical Educators course or equivalent

Desirable

• Membership of the Professional Organisation
• Membership of Professional special interest groups relevant to speciality
• Relevant Postgraduate clinical qualification
• Management skills or leadership training

Experience

Essential

• Significant recent clinical experience in relevant clinical area
• Evidence of a broad base of clinical experience at Band 6 level or equivalent
• Significant experience of working as an integral member of a multidisciplinary team and inter agency working
• Experience of multidisciplinary goal planning, development of care pathways and using outcome measures
• Experience of organising and implementing training programmes for therapists, MDT members, support workers, students and apprentice
• Experience of service development/change management
• Experience in implementing evidence based practice in speciality
• Experience of on-call and weekend working in an acute hospital (if required for job role)

Desirable

• Previous Band 7 or equivalent experience in relevant post
• Leadership of a therapy team
• Recent, relevant work in an NHS environment
• Experience of using clinical governance framework to monitor and improve quality of patient care
• Clinical research experience
• Experience of planning and managing service improvement activities

Skills

Essential

• Competent IT skills
• Understanding of clinical governance and the implications for therapy services including experience of quality issues and audit

Desirable

• Knowledge of recent NHS developments and their impact on service provision
• Advanced computer skills for presentation and data analysis