Job summary
- Main area
- Rehabilitation Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent: 7 day working.
- Hours
- 37.5 hours per week (Full Time)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS8595
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Thomas's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £51,488 - £57,802 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 07/07/2024 23:59
- Interview date
- 15/07/2024
Employer heading
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Highly Specialist B7 Physiotherapist - Rehabilitation Lane Fox Unit
Band 7
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills and a passion for caring for people who require rehabilitation within the setting of respiratory needs and ventilation weaning, to join the rehabilitation physiotherapy team at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital. The team consists of a respiratory band 7 as well as rotational staff and is supported by respiratory and rehabilitation clinical leads. This is a permanent role.
The post holder will be a key member of our multi-disciplinary team delivering high quality rehabilitation for those transferred to this regional weaning unit and respiratory centre.
Main duties of the job
We are looking for a dynamic, skilled clinician and leader who will provide clinical assessment, rehabilitation treatment and management of patients with highly complex presentations including those on ventilation. They will need to demonstrate understanding of the impact of neuromuscular conditions and other long term conditions on the ability to rehabilitate and also respiratory care. They will need to take part in airway clearance as well as have an understanding of weaning. As a band 7 service lead, they will be committed to training , supervising and supporting the career development of junior colleagues, students and delivering the team management. They will demonstrate drive and enthusiasm to lead and contribute to service improvement initiatives through project work.
The post holder will have had experience at a senior level or can demonstrate they have developed rehabilitation clinical skills. They will have the opportunity to further develop their clinical and leadership skills, supported by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Deputy and Clinical Lead Rehabilitation Physiotherapist and as a wider member of the B7/8 rehab team.
The physiotherapy service has a high profile within the Lane Fox Unit and currently provides a 7-day service, reflecting the physiotherapy department’s commitment to meeting patient needs and delivering excellence. It is essential the post holder be able to contribute fully to 7-day working.
Working for our organisation
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. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
- To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and rehabilitation treatment and management of patients with conditions that have led to a long critical care stay and have transferred to Lane Fox weaning unit. This would include neuromuscular conditions, chronic lung conditions, and neurological conditions such as spinal cord injury
- Understand pathophysiological presentations and impact on likely rehabilitation outcomes
- Have a good understanding of respiratory assessment and be able to deliver treatment as part of the patients intervention including airway clearance
- Participate in complex MDT decisions, inputting into a range of issues including the potential for functional gains
- To maintain associated records, as an autonomous practitioner.
- To take a lead role in supervision, training and development of physiotherapists and students and MDT staff in the physiotherapeutic care of patients with long term respiratory complications and rehabilitation needs
- To provide skilled team and service leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area, and to set and monitor standards of practice.
- To supervise, initiate and participate in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental audit, quality improvement and research in their clinical area.
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
- Broad range of experience at Band 6 level such as critical care, surgery, neurology/rehabilitation and elderly care
- Specialist experience in the management of rehab needs and ventilation weaning
- Knowledge of rehabilitation theory and evidence base
- Experience of teaching in a clinical setting; including physiotherapists and the wider MDT
Desirable criteria
- Experience of research or quality improvement practice and methodology
- Demonstration of outputs -conference presentation/poster/abstract/paper
- Previous experience at Band 7
- Clinical experience in neuromuscular conditions
Skills
Essential criteria
- Significant experience in rehabilitation of those with long term conditions. Advanced knowledge and skills related to rehabilitation and respiratory needs as part of ventilation weaning. Demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning
- Ability to work within a multidisciplinary setting, goal planning, developing care pathways and using outcome measures
- Understanding of Clinical Governance and the implications for physiotherapy services including experience of quality issues and audit
- Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Supervision of other staff e.g. Band 5 staff; physiotherapy assistant / Technical Instructor; students
- Experience of operational team management. eg, Rota's, HR
- Ability to lead respiratory treatment including airway clearance
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge of current national policies / standards / initiatives in critical care
- Advanced IT skills e.g. Excel spreadsheet functions and word document editing and report writing
- Knowledge of current national policies / standards / initiatives in rehabilitation
Knowledge/ Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma / Degree in Physiotherapy
- Post Graduate Courses relevant to the clinical speciality
- Registration HCPC
- Continued Professional Development including evidence of reflective practice
Desirable criteria
- Recognised post-graduate qualification e.g. MSc.
- Post graduate course(s) in management and / or leadership training
- Membership of relevant National special interest group
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Alexandra Curtis
- Job title
- Deputy Clinical Lead- Rehabilitation
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071885082
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