Respiratory Physiotherapist

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust; Stockport; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 44,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

NHS pension scheme membership

Cycle to work scheme

Salary sacrifice schemes

Job summary

Stockport NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Respiratory Physiotherapist to join the Community COPD Service within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service/Team. You will manage COPD and heart failure patients in a community setting, delivering an evidence-based rehab program and education sessions.

The role involves advanced assessments, coordinating clinics, and working with a dedicated multidisciplinary team to support patients’ respiratory health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Be clinically responsible for a designated caseload of COPD/heart failure patients undergoing rehabilitation.
• Provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations.
• Use advanced assessment techniques and clinical reasoning to inform treatment plans.

Responsibilities

• Be clinically responsible for a designated caseload of COPD/heart failure patients undergoing rehabilitation.
• Organise workload effectively with clinical priorities and service demand.
• Provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex conditions.
• Use advanced assessment techniques and interpret diagnostic results to confirm diagnosis and plan treatment.
• Use relevant screening tools.
• Review medical therapy with Respiratory ACP, NMPs and Lead Physiotherapist for safe care.

Skills

Clinical responsibility

Advanced physiotherapy assessment

Communication skills

Team collaboration

Education

BSc Physiotherapy

Job description

Respiratory Physiotherapist - 37.5 - Permanent

The Community COPD Service are looking for a Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service/Team. Are you a motivated and highly skilled Physiotherapist, with a genuine passion for Respiratory? The post holder will assist in delivering Stockport's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme, with in a community setting, for people living with respiratory conditions and/or heart failure. You will be working alongside a dedicated, highly specialised team, of physiotherapists, clinical nurse specialists and assistant practitioners. It is a varied role including managing assessment clinics, and delivering exercise and education classes. You must have excellent communication skills, and strong work ethic, in return we can offer you a supportive working environment to develop your skills within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.

• Be clinically responsible for a designated caseload of COPD/chronic lung condition and heart failure (HF) patients undergoing rehabilitation, ensuring high standards of care.
• Organise workload effectively, and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time, and in accordance with service demand/requirements on a changing basis.
• Provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, psychological and emotional conditions.
• Use advanced assessment techniques, interpretation of diagnostic test results and use advanced clinical reasoning skills, to confirm a patient’s diagnosis and formulate an evidence based, goal orientated treatment plan.
• Use of relevant and appropriate screening tools.
• Review medical therapy, supported by Respiratory ACP, Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and Lead Physiotherapist to ensure safe and effective treatments/management.

We hold a unique position in the Stockport community as the provider of healthcare and we are one of its largest employers.

We believe that the best organisations are those that reflect the communities they serve. We are therefore seeking to improve the diversity of our workforce to make it truly representative of our local population.

We actively encourage applications irrespective of race, age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage & civil partnership, or pregnancy or maternity. Recognising those communities that are underrepresented within our workforce, we would particularly welcome applications from you.

We recognise that flexible working is important. We take requests for flexible working seriously, consider any request we receive and try to work with you, so we can explore if your request may fit with the needs of the service.

Benefits We Offer To You

• Between 27-33 days of annual leave plus bank holidays
• NHS pension scheme membership
• Salary sacrifice schemes for lease cars, home electronics and more, to make your salary go further
• NHS Staff discounts
• Cycle to work scheme
• Salary finance – for loans, savings, budget planning and tips on managing debt
• Stockport Credit Union– for local financial advice

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Marie Gregory Job title: Clinical Lead PR Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0161 2044668