Senior Respiratory Physiotherapist | Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust

Southend University Hospital NHS Trust; Basildon; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading healthcare provider in Basildon is seeking an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join the Critical Care and Respiratory team. This role involves delivering high-quality patient-centered care and requires previous experience in respiratory or critical care, along with effective communication skills. You'll be responsible for patient interventions, assessments, and working as part of an on-call rota. The position offers continuous professional development opportunities.

Qualifications

• Candidates must have previous experience in respiratory or critical care.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills required.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for Physiotherapy intervention for patients in Critical Care Unit.
• Undertake assessments of respiratory outpatients as required.
• Prioritize physiotherapy referrals for timely caseload management.

Job description

Overview

This role allows an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our Critical Care and Respiratory team, who have wide ranging clinical experience, good communication and interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering high quality patient-centred care.

Join our friendly and supportive team of therapists, where continuous professional development, research and quality improvement processes are encouraged. There is a well-established in-service education programme, where you can build upon your clinical and managerial skills with support from senior clinical leads.

Responsibilities

• To be responsible for the Physiotherapy intervention for patients admitted to CCU and the acute respiratory adult in patient ward
• To undertake assessments of respiratory out patients as require
• Prioritise physiotherapy referrals in order to implement effective and timely caseload management
• Determine clinical diagnosis and provide physiotherapy treatment indicated as an autonomous practitioner, developing appropriate care plans, giving specialist clinical/professional advice to patients, carers and other Health Care Professionals

On-call and rota

Candidates will be expected to join and partake in our overnight emergency on call rota and weekend working rotas and previous experience of working within respiratory / Critical Care field is essential. You will also be expected to work as part of a seven day rota.

Our ambition

Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.

We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust

Application

For more details regarding this exciting role please see job description and personal specification.

This advert closes on Tuesday 7 Oct 2025