To deliver highly specialist paediatric respiratory physiotherapy and act as a source of expertise to fellow clinicians, managers, healthcare professionals and other services internal and external to the trust, as required.

The post holder will be required to work effectively in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team, other health professionals to promote the development, planning and delivery of respiratory intervention programmes and training in this specialist field of practice.

To undertake the role of inpatient paediatric respiratory lead that includes, planning, coordinating, delivering, and evaluating the inpatient paediatric therapy service.

The post holder will undertake clinical audits, evaluating evidence-based practice, and endeavour to source high quality, up to date research within this specialist area.

To support, co-ordinate, supervise and appraise staff and students within the specialist area.

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

This post is based at our Heartlands site, 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 because of development or reorganisation of Trust services.

30 hours per week.

Main duties of the job

To deliver highly specialist respiratory assessment, management and treatment of paediatric patients including those requiring Cystic Fibrosis inpatient and outpatient support, NIV and HDU care with diverse presentations and complex conditions to develop and deliver individualised specialist treatment programmes.

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

To supervise, initiate and participate in regular evidence-based audit and research projects to further clinical practice. Make recommendations to Clinical Team Leader for changes to practice by the team. Lead the implementation of specific changes to practice or contribute to service protocols within area of practice.

To effectively communicate with patients, carers and all relevant individuals, departments, and agencies to maximise rehabilitation potential and to ensure understanding of the condition and therapeutic process.

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

Job responsibilities

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Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• * Good standard of general education including English language and mathematics, A levels or equivalent
• * Degree in Physiotherapy
• * Registered with HCPC as a Physiotherapist.
• * Evidence of relevant postgraduate training in specialist area

Experience

Essential

• * Relevant postgraduate experience in specialist areas relevant to the post
• * Experience of NHS based work.
• * Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio including recent courses relevant to paediatric respiratory physiotherapy
• * Evidence of IT skills
• * A range of suitable experience of working within a primary care setting and/or acute paediatric respiratory inpatient setting
• * Experience of acute respiratory work in paediatrics
• * Ability to use paediatric physiotherapy respiratory clinical skills to systematically diagnose/assess patient/client problem.
• * To understand and evaluate complex situations and information to formulate an appropriate course of action. The ability to frequently modify planned activity to suit the need of the individual.
• * Experience of on-call work in paediatrics and adults respiratory physiotherapy.
• * Experience of paediatric respiratory physiotherapy with management of complex patients
• * Experience of effective staff coordination, support and leadership
• * Experience of managing students at clinical tutor and supervisor levels
• * Experience of training staff groups at all levels
• * Evidence of working effectively in partnership with others within multi-disciplinary teams and across agencies

Employer details

Employer name

University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Trustwide

Mindelsohn Way

Birmingham

West Midlands

B15 2TH

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