Specialist Physiotherapist Paediatric NMD and Complex Respiratory

Guys & St Thomas Hospital; London; On-site; GBP 54,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading hospital in London is seeking an experienced Specialist Physiotherapist for the Paediatric NMD and Complex Respiratory team. The ideal candidate will manage complex cases, work in a multi-disciplinary setting, and contribute to service development. This role offers a competitive salary and opportunities for professional growth.

Qualifications

• Equivalent or equal to a degree in Physiotherapy.
• Health and Care Professional council registration required.
• Significant acute paediatric respiratory experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage a caseload of patients with complex needs.
• Work closely with the multi-disciplinary team.
• Provide education and training to families and MDT.

Skills

Clinical decision making

Communication

Teamwork

Patient assessment

Education

Degree in Physiotherapy

Job description

Specialist Physiotherapist Paediatric NMD and Complex Respiratory

NHS AfC: Band 7

Main area Paediatric Physiotherapist Grade NHS AfC: Band 7 Contract Permanent: Monday to friday Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (To include on-call cover) Job ref 196-LIS9600

Employer Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site Royal Brompton Hospital (Evelina Children's Hospital London) Town London Salary £54,320 - £60,981 per annum inc. HCAS Salary period Yearly Closing 22/06/2025 23:59

Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.

Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.

Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.

Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.

In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.

We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.

Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.

The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.

We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.

Job overview

We are seeking an experienced, highly skilled, and forward-thinking Band 7 Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our Paediatric team.

The post holder will work as an integral and active part of the Paediatric Physiotherapy and Sleep & Ventilation team in the provision of a patient-centred In-patient, out-patient and community service. The service supports a caseload of patients with Neuromuscular condition, Long term ventilation and other complex respiratory conditions. The post-holder will also have the opportunity to further develop their acute skills by working within the paediatric respiratory in-patient Physiotherapy team supporting children with a wide range of cardiorespiratory conditions.

Main duties of the job

In this role you will work alongside some of the top cardio-respiratory specialist health care practitioners in the UK and Europe. You will work as part of the multi-disciplinary team (Clinical Nurse Specialist, Physiologists and Respiratory Medical team) both in acute care and community settings. Teamwork and excellent communication skills are vital to the role.

You will work closely within the Paediatric Respiratory Physiotherapy team and contribute to the maintenance and development of the service provided, with particular focus on Sleep and Ventilation. You will work closely with the wider Paediatric multidisciplinary team both at the Royal Brompton Hospital and Evelina Hospital sites.

Working for our organisation

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.

Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. Weprovide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.

Our integrated approach to caring for patients from before birth, through childhood, adolescence and into adulthood and old age has been replicated around the world and has gained Royal Brompton and Harefield an international reputation as a leader in heart and lung diagnosis, treatment and research.

We are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be responsible in a team leader role alongside the clinical lead in planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the Physiotherapy service provided in particular to children with Neuromusuclar conditions or Long Term Ventilation requirements at Royal Brompton on a day to day basis.

Manage a caseload of patients with highly complex needs, using evidence-based and client-centred principles to assess, plan, implement and evaluate interventions. Provide this service with a caseload of complex cases as an autonomous practitioner, demonstrating high-level problem solving and clinical reasoning skills, and independence in judgement.

Provision of education and training to families, carers and the MDT is an integral part of this role.

To work within the in-patient team as required to manage children with a wide range of cardiorespiratory conditions.

To use validated and appropriate outcome measures and set individualised patient goals.

To support the clinical leads in providing leadership for senior and junior staff, through regular supervision and annual appraisal. To contribute to the maintenance and development of the Paediatric Physiotherapy Service. To work closely within the acute physiotherapy team at Evelina hospital to develop 1 service across 2 sites.

To work with colleagues to ensure the continuing professional development and overall performance of physiotherapy staff in paediatrics and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/process improvement project groups.

Supervise, educate and assess the performance of junior physiotherapy staff to ensure theoretical and clinical knowledge meets departmental standards. Additionally to supervise, educate and assess the performance of Physiotherapy students.

Due to the strong commitment to evidence-based practice throughout the Trust, CPD and study leave will be well supported, and involvement in audit, research and policy development is encouraged and facilitated.

Responsible for maintaining and improving all aspects of clinical governance, evidence-based practice and quality assurance in designated area.

This excellent opportunity is ideal if you’re wanting to progress into a senior role or consolidate and develop further in your career.

Person specification

Knowledge/Qualifications

• Equivalent or equal to a degree in Physiotherapy
• Health and Care Professional council registration
• Relevant validated clinical courses accredited as equivalent to masters level
• Member of CSP
• Member of ACPRC or Member of ACPC
• Member of another special interest group relating to respiratory care

Experience

• Significant cardiorespiratory/cardiothoracic experience.
• Significant acute paediatric respiratory experience.
• Evidence of CPD
• Understanding of cardiorespiratory physiology and pathophysiology specific to post
• Significant previous practical experience managing children with neuromuscular disease
• Relevant clinical courses in paediatric respiratory care

Skills

• Core skills in cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy
• Ability to assess and treat complex patients in the paediatric respiratory/critical care field
• Sound clinical decision making and reasoning.
• Negotiation and Conflict resolution skills
• Ability to work independently
• Able to organise and prioritise own workload
• Experience in delegating appropriately to others
• Supervision of students
• Ability to pass on skills/knowledge to others within formal and informal environments
• Able to work actively within a multidisciplinary team
• Excellent organisational and leadership skills
• Awareness of quality and strategies for measurement.
• Participation in audit and research
• Interest in research
• Experience of presenting to large groups e.g. at conferences

Personal Qualities

• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication skills, written and oral.
• Articulate
• Self-Motivator
• Ability to manage working in stressful environments e.g. with sick children or emotional carers.
• Keen to work hard
• Flexible working approach
• Commitment to personal and team development

Guy’s and St Thomas’celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.

Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.

As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.

We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personalcircumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.

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This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Name Ruth Wakeman Job title Clinical Lead Paediatric Physiotherapist NIV Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 07790366819

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