Highly Specialised Physiotherapist Specialist Medicine

Barts Health NHS Trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

A major NHS trust is seeking a Highly Specialised Physiotherapist for the Specialist Medicine Team at the Royal London Hospital. This role involves delivering high-quality patient-focused care and leading advanced assessments and treatments for patients with complex rehabilitation needs. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in acute rehabilitation, strong teaching abilities, and an understanding of clinical governance. This position offers opportunities for professional growth in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in acute rehabilitation for conditions like frailty and stroke.
• Skilled in delivering clinical education to various staff groups.
• Experience leading projects aimed at quality improvement.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, patient-focused care in a leadership role.
• Lead advanced assessment and treatment of patients with long-term conditions.
• Support clinical governance and service development.

Skills

Acute rehabilitation experience

Teaching skills

Quality improvement skills

Research experience

Education

BSc Physiotherapy

HCPC Registration

Masters' modules relevant to specialist area

Leadership Course

Membership of Specialist Interest Group

Job description

Highly Specialised Physiotherapist Specialist Medicine

We have an exciting opportunity to Join Barts health Trust as a highly specialist rehabilitation physiotherapist in the Specialist Medicine Team at the Royal London Hospital. Barts Health is a high performing group of NHS hospitals that is renowned for excellence and innovation, providing equitable, safe and compassionate care to our patient in East London and beyond.

We are looking for a highly motivated individual that is passionate about delivering evidence based, innovative care to patients living with a range of acute and chronic medical conditions. The team covers the Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary, Renal wards and HDU, Endocrinology & Haematology, Respiratory and Cardiology wards including all neurological and stroke outliers. The Respiratory ward has two 4 bedded enhanced care bays that cares for patients on NIV, heated high flow therapy and those with altered airways.

Successful candidates will be experienced in delivering quality improvement projects and will lead on service development under the guidance of the clinical leads. They will have knowledge of local and national guidance and initiatives relating to acute rehabilitation and respiratory care and be experienced in delivering teaching to a range of audiences.

This opportunity is suitable for an experience band 6 who is ready for the next step in their career or an existing band 7 looking to broaden their experience.

Main duties of the job

• To work in a diverse multicultural environment in a leadership role within the specialist medicine team to deliver high quality, patient focussed care
• To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients living with long term conditions with complex rehabilitation needs across the acute medical wards including Gastroenterology, Hepatobiliary, Renal, Endocrinology & Haematology, Respiratory and Cardiology
• To take a lead role in the advances assessment and treatment of outlying neurological and stroke patients on the medical wards including leading on facilitating their transition closer to home
• To support with clinical leads in service development leading on innovation and quality improvement in line with local and national healthcare priorities
• To be responsible for the induction, supervision, learning and development of rotational staff within the team.
• To be jointly responsible with clinical leads for overseeing clinical governance within the team including but not limited to managing clinical risk, staff development, and rota management.
• To support the overnight respiratory on-call services

About us

Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain's leading healthcare providers.

The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.

Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which we WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.

We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.

Job responsibilities

The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• BSc Physiotherapy
• HCPC Registration
• Masters' modules relevant to specialist area
• Leadership Course
• Membership of Specialist Interest Group

Experience

• Extensive experience delivering acute rehabilitation for patients acute and chronic medical conditions such as renal, liver and heart failure, frailty and stroke/neurological conditions.
• Experienced in presenting and teaching skills to a variety of professionals
• Experienced in delivering clinical education to range of staff groups of varying knowledge
• Experience of leading a quality improvement/clinical effectiveness work based project/ Audit
• Simulation Training Skills
• Experience in research

Knowledge

• Awareness of local and national policies relating to delivery of acute rehabilitation services including dosage of rehab interventions
• In-depth understanding of clinical governance
• Understanding of the opportunities and challenges of working within a culturally diverse environment

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.