# Respiratory Physiotherapist

**Company**: St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
**Location**: Tooting
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: permanent
**Salary**: £58,133 to £65,261 a year PA
**Category**: Healthcare
**Industry**: Healthcare

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## Description

We are seeking a Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our team at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. The successful candidate will provide specialist respiratory assessment, diagnosis, treatment, and care to patients with undiagnosed respiratory disease as well as acute or chronic respiratory disease presentations.

The post requires working with a number of partners in and out of hospital settings, including Respiratory consultants, Respiratory nurses, GPs, community MDT teams, and other partners such as Oxygen providers.

The Respiratory Physiotherapist will be responsible for:

- Providing specialist respiratory physiotherapy input to patients within the department

- Taking a role in supervision and teaching of students and members of the wider MDT

- Providing skilled team leadership and being responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy, and policy changes in own clinical area

- Setting and monitoring standards of practice

- Inputting into commissioning of new services as required

- Supervising, initiating, and participating in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and leading in departmental audit in the clinical area

- Reporting into national audits relevant to the clinical area

- Reporting regularly to stakeholders on service KPIs

The ideal candidate will have:

- A Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy

- HCPC Registration

- Evidence of Continued Professional Development, including attendance at recent postgraduate courses relevant to the clinical field

- A Master's Degree or evidence of working at an equivalent level

- Experience of undertaking clinical audit

- A minimum of 3 years' NHS experience

- A minimum of 4 years' postgraduate experience, with at least 2 years in specialist respiratory care, including respiratory outpatients, ITU, and medical wards

- Broad range of experience at B5 and B6 level

- Knowledge and experience of a wide range of approaches to the management of respiratory patients, demonstrated by advanced clinical reasoning, in a variety of clinical settings

- Experience of managing other staff

- Experience of teaching in a clinical setting

- Experience of student supervision/clinical education

- Experience of MDT working

In return, we offer a salary of £58,133 to £65,261 per annum, a permanent full-time contract, and a range of benefits.

## Skills

### Required
- Physiotherapy
- Respiratory care
- MDT working
- Clinical audit
- Team leadership
- Operational management

### Nice to have
- Recognised post-graduate qualification in Respiratory Care
- Leadership Training
- Postgraduate management training
- Membership of Special Interest Group: ACPRC/BTS
- Clinical Assessment Skills
- Non-Medical Prescriber
- ARTP Spirometry Certificate
- Level 2 smoking cessation certificate

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