Job Introduction
As a Band 6 Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist you’ll be working as part of the NHS system in Bath & North East Somerset where we deliver services across the whole county.
The aim of this service is to provide an early supported discharge (ESD), a prevention of admission service (POA), an intervention service, a home oxygen assessment service for all adults requiring Oxygen and a community based pulmonary rehabilitation programme for adults who have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) and Bronchiectasis and are registered with a B&NES GP. The overall outcome for this service is to enhance patients’ quality of life, to improve their physical health and to optimise their social and psychological well-being.
The role of the Specialist Community Respiratory Physiotherapist is:
- To provide high standards of specialist physiotherapy treatment in clinical areas and in a domiciliary setting in treating patients with COPD and Bronchiectasis conditions.
- To perform specialist physiotherapy assessments, diagnosis and treatment of patients who may have diverse presentations, especially COPD and Bronchiectasis, and complex physical and psychological conditions.
- To participate and help organize and run pulmonary rehabilitation classes in accordance with BTS guidelines.
- To hold responsibility for own case load and be responsible for a defined area of the service or a particular patient type, working with supervision where required.
- To support the team leader in the delivery of the service as a whole.
- To support the clinical specialist in the delivery of the service.
- To ensure efficient use of resources and to provide highly effective interventions.
- To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
Main Responsibility
As a Band 6 Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist you will
- To be professionally and legally accountable for all aspects of own work, including the management of own patient caseload. To ensure a high standard of care.
- To undertake a comprehensive assessment and examination of patients including those who may have complex presentations/multiple pathologies.
- To use advanced assessment techniques and advanced clinical reasoning skills, adapting and prescribing treatment programmes according to patient needs.
- To demonstrate highly developed manual dexterity in applying assessment techniques to analyse and provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition, eg auscultation, venepuncture and taking of arterial and/or capillary blood gases.
- To formulate accurate prognoses and recommend best course of intervention, developing comprehensive specialist treatment plans and discharge from the service.
- To formulate and deliver an individual specialist treatment programme based on a sound knowledge of evidence based practice and treatment options using clinical assessment, reasoning skills and knowledge of treatment skills e.g. manual techniques, patient education, exercise classes and other alternative options.
- To critically evaluate patients’ response to treatment and adapt patient management accordingly.
- To communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of condition. Communication skills of persuasion, motivation and explanation are needed to encourage patients to undertake their treatment programme. These communication skills (verbal and non-verbal) need to be used to gain informed consent from patients where there might be barriers to effective communication e.g. loss of hearing, altered perception, expressive and receptive dysphasia, pain, fear.
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated specialist caseload of patients and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
- To manage clinical risk within own patient case load.
- To work within trust, Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP) and Health Care Professionals Council (HCPC) clinical guidelines and to have a good working knowledge of national and local standards.
- To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, patients and other professions to promote understanding of the aims of the Community Respiratory Service. To promote health and well-being and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
- To promote the health of service users and to assist in the prevention of secondary complications through enabling and encouraging independence, provision of support, facilitation of access, advice, information and provision of equipment where necessary.
The Ideal Candidate
You will have the:
Appropriate professional physiotherapist qualification BSc, MSc or Graduate Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Registered with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
- Membership of Chartered Society of Physiotherapy.
- Car driver with valid UK driving licence.
- Evidence of continuing professional development, contained within a professional portfolio
- Recent experience in this specialist field, demonstrating significant knowledge of this area.
- Post graduate experience to have developed beyond basic rotations especially in the fields of respiratory and exercise therapy.
- Experience of running group based rehabilitation/exercise classes
- Experience of supervising staff/students
- Experience of delivering patient education.
- Experience of leading training sessions, eg demonstrating techniques, explaining theory.
- Demonstrable experience of effective team working
- Ability to work on own initiative
- Demonstrates evidence of well-developed clinical practice.
- Able to advise on and implement improvements to the quality and efficiency of care for relevant patient group.
- Knowledge of spirometry
- Knowledge of the direction of health initiatives and policy.
- Knowledge of Blood Gases – arterial or capillary
- Working knowledge of audit and other evaluative measures.
- Able to demonstrate interest/ understanding of respiratory
Package Description
As a Band 6 Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist, you’ll be part of our dynamic team at St Martin's Hospital.
You will feel valued as a band 6 Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £33,706-£40,588 depending on experience with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
- Free on site-parking at St Martin's Hospital
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year
About the Company
We change lives by transforming health and care.
Established in 2006 we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.
We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.
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