Band 6 Respiratory Physiotherapist

Job summary

Are you interested in Respiratory Physiotherapy? This exciting rotational opportunity is based within the specialist respiratory physiotherapy teams within University Hospitals Birmingham. This will be an initial 12 months on ITU at Heartlands Hospital before joining the Respiratory rotations. Respiratory rotations include acute Non-Invasive Ventilation and Respiratory Support Units, regional Cystic Fibrosis centre, Home Mechanical Ventilation service including Paediatric Transition and Neuromuscular service, the Birmingham Regional Severe Asthma Service, Critical Care and Surgery.
We are looking for an enthusiastic, self-motivated, innovative physiotherapist. You will need good clinical skills and experience; excellent team working and time management skills. You will work alongside specialist physiotherapists, providing respiratory care and rehabilitation to patients whilst working closely with the multi-professional team. You will have the opportunity to supervise Physiotherapy students, junior Physiotherapists and Therapy Support Workers. Research and CPD opportunities are encouraged.
This rotational role is based at Birmingham Heartlands and Good Hope Hospitals, however, as the Trust is a multi-site organisation you may be required to work at any of the Trust sites and may need to change your normal place of work, either temporarily or on a permanent basis as a result of development or reorganisation of Trust services.

 

Main duties, tasks & skills required

To hold responsibility for own case load and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working without direct supervision. Supervision takes the form of regular formal training and clinical reasoning sessions, peer review, case conferences. Access to advice and support from senior physiotherapists is available if required, clinical work is not routinely evaluated.

To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner and maintain associated records.

To assist with supervision, education and assessment of the performance of physiotherapy students; this would be to a graduate standard and involve working with universities to ensure the standard of practice and teaching meets the standards set by the degree level qualification.

To assist with the supervision, education and co-ordination of physiotherapy assistants, physiotherapy technical instructors and junior physiotherapists.

About us

We are recognised as one of the leading NHS Foundation Trusts in the UK. Our vision is to Build Healthier Lives, and we recognise that we need incredible staff to do this.

Our commitment to our staff is to create the best place for them to work, and we are dedicated to:

Investing in the health and wellbeing of our staff, including a commitment of offering flexible working where we can;
Offer our staff a wide variety of training and development opportunities, to support their personal and career development objectives.

UHB is committed to ensuring that our staff are treated fairly and feel that they belong, by creating a kind and inclusive environment. This is about equity of opportunity; removing all barriers, including discrimination and ensuring each individual member of staff reach their true potential, achieve their ambitions and thrive in their work. This is more than words. We are taking action. Our commitment to an inclusive culture is embedded at all levels of the organisation where every voice is heard, driven by our diverse and active staff networks, and at Board level by the Fairness Taskforce led by our CEO. We nurture a culture which empowers staff to challenge discriminatory behaviours and to enable people to bring their 'whole self' to a kinder, more connected and bold place to work.

University Hospitals Birmingham is a Smoke-Free premises hospital.

Job description

Applicants will be required to participate in the departmental respiratory overnight on-call system and 7 day working rota within the Respiratory Therapy teams.

*Please Note : For a detailed job description for this vacancy, please see attached Job Description*

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential

* Diploma / degree in Physiotherapy

* Registered with Health Professions Council

* A levels or equivalent qualification

* Good standard of general education including GCSE maths and English grade C and above.

* Evidence of CPD including recent post graduate training relevant to clinical speciality.

Desirable

* Member of the ACPRC/ MTS/BTS

* Attendance at Clinical Educators course

Experience

Essential

* Demonstrates clinical experience enabling the post holder to manage a caseload of patients within this speciality / within the NHS with experience of elderly and frail elderly, neurological and musculo-skeletal conditions.

* Experience of working on a physiotherapy on-call service.

* Supervision of student physiotherapists and assistants.

* An ability to analyse clinical and non-clinical complex facts and situations, which require the interpretation and comparison of a range of options.

* An ability to plan, organise, formulate and adjust complex plans.

* An ability to supervise and delegate work to physiotherapists, assistants and students.

Desirable

* It is desirable that the candidate will have had some experience within Respiratory Physiotherapy / NIV.

* It is desirable that the candidate has some experience in and around critical care environment.

Additional Criteria

Essential

* An ability to provide and receive complex, sensitive and contentious information.

* An ability to empathise and reassure.

* An ability to persuade, motivate and negotiate.

* An ability to communicate where there are barriers to understanding.

* An ability to contribute to the clinical education of less experienced staff, students or assistants.

* Demonstrate enthusiasm, vision and a desire to achieve.

* Committed to developing expertise within physiotherapy and clinical speciality.

* Demonstrate a forward-thinking and professional attitude.

* An ability to cope with moving/manoeuvring patients/equipment on a daily basis.

* An ability to cope with frequent exposure to distressing /emotional situations.

* An ability to work as team leader, as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

* An ability to motivate and develop the team.

* Able to contribute to the out of hours on-call Respiratory Service.

Desirable

* Demonstrate an interest in promoting physiotherapy to health professionals and other agencies. 

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website.

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants.

UK Professional Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website.

For help with your application, contact: 

Abigail Cartwright 

abigail.cartwright@uhb.nhs.uk 

01214249105