We have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join the Cystic Fibrosis (CF) team at NUH as a Band 7 team leader. This permanent post is based at Nottingham City Hospital.

We are looking for an experienced band 6 or a current band 7 physiotherapist with a broad respiratory skill set, a passion for service development/improvement, strong leadership and management skills and the clinical skills to treat CF and other chronic respiratory illnesses. You will be working alongside an experienced Highly Specialist CF physiotherapist to co-lead the development of an ever-changing service. Therefore, excellent teamwork and communication skills are essential.

You will treat patients with CF and other chronic respiratory conditions in the ward setting, as well as reviewing CF patients in a clinic setting. You will work flexibly to cover inpatient, outpatient and community need, and therefore a full driving licence with access to a car is also required.

You will work closely with the wider MDT to develop complex and structured patient care plans as well as progressing your skills in areas of advanced clinical practice such as lung function and test doses of nebulised therapy.

You will also contribute to the wider inpatient respiratory physiotherapy team and its out of hours service. You will have opportunities for development within Therapies through regular training and peer/line management supervision, and close MDT working with the CF unit.

Main duties of the job

Please refer to the job description and person specification for full details. Core responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Supporting the CF team in through leadership and service development. Due to recent medication changes, the patient dynamic is fluid and the service is going through an exciting time of change/transformation. You will therefore assist in both clinical and non-clinical aspects of leadership, management and service development.
• Providing a supportive learning environment for team members under your direct management. This includes undertaking annual appraisals and managing health and wellbeing.
• Contributing to the education and teaching of students, preceptees and unregistered staff, including training new staff for weekend and respiratory rosters when required.
• Leading and participating in the weekend respiratory service to Medicine, Surgery and Critical Care areas and ensuring timely intervention for therapy-dependant discharges is met.
• Ensuring that high quality, evidenced based practice, service development and education underpin the service delivery.
• Leading by example, embedding NUH's values and behaviours in everyday practice.

About us

With over 19,000 staff, we are one of the biggest employers in the city with a central role in supporting the health and wellbeing of our local population. We play a leading role in research, education and innovation.

Come and join our wonderful team at NUH. We are big believers in diversity and welcome new ideas to help develop our team in order to deliver world class healthcare to the vast patient populations we serve. With endless personal development opportunities available, at NUH we will endeavor to turn your job into a career!

The Physiotherapy service is part of the Therapies and Rehabilitation Services pathway, which is one of the pathways that together make up the Clinical Support Division at NUH. We are a diverse pathway of AHPs and support staff, employing over 800 staff, working together to deliver the high quality care we aspire to. Our HCPC registered AHP professionals comprise of physiotherapists, dietitians, occupational therapists, orthotists, prosthetists and speech and language therapists. We have a Chief AHP to lead us on our strategic direction, and many of the pathway leadership team have pathway AHP backgrounds to support our staff. There are also Practice Development Therapists to support career development for all.

We particularly welcome applications from people who identify as Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, or Disabled, as we are striving to be better represented at NUH.

Job description

Job responsibilities

• Permanent 37.5 hours Band 7 post
• Core hours are worked Monday to Friday
• Flexible working and part time will be considered
• Additional duties will include participation in on call and weekend working as well as a late shifts (1-9PM). Weekends are rostered with expected frequency of 1:4, an on-call average 1 per month and late shifts approximately 1-2 per month but all are dependent on service need and staffing levels
• Please familiarise yourself with the attached Job Description and Personal Specification for detail specific to this post

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

• BSc Physiotherapy or equivalent
• HCPC registration
• Evidence of appropriate post graduate study and professional development within specialist area

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Significant post graduate experience, including a wide variety of rotations and experiences at Band 6 in relevant specialty
• Experience of managing staff performance and sickness, and participation in recruitment of new staff to maximise workforce potential
• Able to deliver training and educate individuals, team and wider MDT
• Experience in evaluating evidence based practice, audit, service development and benchmarking

Communication and relationship skills

Essential

• Excellent verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills
• Able to build and maintain effective relationships with the multidisciplinary team, patients and carers
• Able to communicate complex patient information effectively where there may be barriers to understanding e.g. language barriers, speech, cognitive problems
• Demonstrate leadership ability
• Able to present at to groups of up to 25 people

Analytical and judgement skills

Essential

• Able to assess complex information, formulate a diagnosis and plan patient management using clinical reasoning skills and a range of treatment options
• Able to solve problems within the team and make decisions where there are a range of options including clinical and strategic issues
• Evaluate clinical and non-clinical interventions of self and your team

Planning and organisational skills

Essential

• Able to organise and prioritise workload of your self and your team, including daily tasks and longer term planning despite interruptions and changing priorities
• Delegate and manage time effectively

Physical skills

Essential

• Able to handle and move complex patients using a way that promotes rehabilitation and is safe
• Able to move and use medical devices

Other requirements

Essential

• Able to undertake out of hours duties including on-call
• Able to travel cross campus and beyond the trust as needed

Employer details

Employer name

Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trusts

Address

City Hospital Campus

Hucknall Road

Nottingham

NG5 1PB

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