Clinical Respiratory Lead

NHS; Southall; On-site; GBP 59,000 - 67,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading NHS Trust is seeking a Clinical Respiratory Lead to drive high-quality care and service development within a diverse community. This role requires proven clinical leadership skills, experience in acute settings, and a commitment to continuous improvement and education in physiotherapy practice.

Qualifications

• Experience in respiratory physiotherapy and management.
• Evidence of CPD and attendance at postgraduate courses.
• Member of relevant professional interest group.

Responsibilities

• Lead delivery and evaluation of high quality care across the unit.
• Manage the occupational therapy team.
• Develop quality improvement and research initiatives.

Skills

Time Management

Organisational Skills

Leadership

Change Management

Clinical Governance

Education

Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy

Job description

Go back London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

Clinical Respiratory Lead

The closing date is 10 July 2025

This role is an exciting career development opportunity for anyone at B7 wishing to progress into a more clinical specialist role whilst developing their operational and strategic leadership experience, or an existing B8a wishing to broaden their portfolio. We are looking for someone who is keen to gain experience leading high quality care and work within a diverse community and workforce.

The successful candidate will have proven clinical leadership skills and experience across medical and surgical specialisms including critical care in acute settings, with demonstrable compassionate and inclusive leadership skills. They will also have evident education experience, alongside experience in implementing change and a drive for improvement.

Main duties of the job

To lead the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of high quality, safe, effective and efficient care across the medical/surgical and critical care unit.

To work in partnership with the other respiratory clinical leads across site to evolve respiratory physiotherapy services to meet local, regional and national requirements and priorities.

To manage the occupational therapy team working within the medical and surgical wards. To support the senior occupational therapist with operational service structure alongside clinical OT specialists.

To work in partnership within the organisation, with the Senior Consultant, ward managers influencing and shaping new models of care.

To foster and take innovative approaches to the development of respiratory physiotherapy service delivery amongst multiple teams

To be an expert practitioner in physiotherapy provision to patients in specialist area(s) of respiratory physiotherapy practice. Working with an advanced level of professional autonomy, accountability and scope of practice

To have a leading role in the development of quality improvement and research in area of clinical practice and / or service areas across the organisation

About us

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.

Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.

• Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country's top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
• St Mark's Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
• Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
• Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.

We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.

Job responsibilities

To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.

Person Specification

• Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy
• Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio showing regular practical and theoretical learning
• Attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical rotations
• Member of relevant multi professional interest group

Knowledge and experience

• Band 7 level experience in respiratory, including team management
• Experience of working within acute medicine, surgical and critical care wards
• Experience of working as part of a Physiotherapy team and / or multidisciplinary team.
• Experience of completing training programmes and teaching courses

Skills, abilities and attributes

• Evidence of keeping abreast with professional practice and new research.
• Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes; to build rapport, listen, negotiate and persuade.
• Understanding of managing occupational therapists
• Ability to critically appraise, translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into clinical practice where indicated

HEART values

• Demonstrate commitment to Trust HEART values: honesty, equity, accountability, respect, and teamwork.

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.

London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust

£59,490 to £66,239 a yearper annum Inclusive ofHigh Cost Area Supplement