Band 7 Physiotherapist - Cardiorespiratory Medicine | North Bristol NHS Trust
An opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic, motivated and forward-thinking Physiotherapist with relevant experience to lead the cardiorespiratory medicine team within our dynamic Physiotherapy service at North Bristol NHS Trust.
To find out more about our Physiotherapy team and what it's like to work at NBT - watch our video.
The post holder will be the team lead ensuring the delivery of a high quality Physiotherapy Service across the Cardiorespiratory Medicine wards, ED, resus, Acute admission unit as well as in reaching in to Intensive care as required . This post will also be part of the Medicine Physiotherapy Pathway supporting the development of the service including working as part of the on call management team to support the education, training and roster admin.
The post holder will provide highly specialist assessment and interventions for a busy and varied caseload demonstrating advanced clinical reasoning skills and with specific knowledge of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy. This role also will support training of staff to gain on call competencies both on rotation and as part of on call duties.
They will take a lead in multi-disciplinary activities and have highly developed specialist knowledge and communicate complex condition related information to patients, relative and Carers. The role will include supporting complex acute patients include a busy HDU ward areas respiratory ward area and assisting in facilitating timely discharges to be achieved by the service.
The post holder will work closely with the Clinical Leadership Team to support and further develop the Physiotherapy Service and manage the day to day running of the team.
North Bristol NHS Trust is one of the largest healthcare trusts in the South West of England. We provide hospital and community healthcare to people living in Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire. We do this across a range of settings, including within our award-winning Brunel building, designed and built for a better patient and staff experience.- We care for people with a wide range of health conditions through a range of services. These range from routine check-ups to specialist neurosurgery, orthopaedics, plastics and burns.
- We deliver more than 6,000 beautiful babies a year in our maternity units, birth centres and at home.
- Our hard-working Emergency Department is a regional trauma centre. Here, we care for people with wide range of illnesses and injuries. For example, strokes and broken arms through to people who have been in a serious car crash.
- We don’t just treat patients. We support the future of healthcare with world-leading research and by training the doctors and nurses of the future.
- To undertake the role of a team leader to plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the physiotherapy areas covered by the cardiorespiratory team.
- To work as an autonomous, highly skilled clinician, to provide a specialised service of physiotherapy including assessment, treatment, advice and education for patients, carers/families and staff on the appropriate wards
- To be the physiotherapy lead within the multidisciplinary team providing specialist advice to other professionals and working closely with the Consultants and MDT to formulate appropriate management plans for patients.
- To provide appropriate training and education to other Health care professionals, other physiotherapists and students within the team. To be an expert resource within the physiotherapy service for cardiorespiratory medicine ward patients including chronic respiratory, neuromuscular patients, Non invasive ventilation, CPAP and tracheostomy weaning.
- To work with and deputise for the Pathway Lead Physiotherapist and Head of Physiotherapy as appropriate.
- To be able to identify and lead relevant service development in team, service, and division as appropriate.
Please see attached Job Description for full details.
This advert closes on Wednesday 29 Jan 2025