Specialist Physiotherapist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
This is an exciting opportunity for a secondment to work within the CHFT multi-disciplinary specialist respiratory team. The post holder will deliver pulmonary rehabilitation and self-management groups to patients with chronic respiratory conditions. The team delivers a community pulmonary rehabilitation service that supports and promotes optimal self-care. This service may be delivered to a cohort in a class setting, individually tailored home-based rehabilitation as part of a supported discharge pathway, or virtually using digital and remote platforms.
The post is to increase access to pulmonary rehabilitation. This will involve working collaboratively with referrers and the integrated care board to highlight health inequalities and offer other venues for pulmonary rehabilitation across Calderdale.
There will be an opportunity to be involved in the post-COVID service experiencing the self-management groups delivered jointly by a physiotherapist and an occupational therapist.
Main Duties of the Job
To provide specialist assessment of patients with chronic respiratory disease including exercise testing and provide appropriate treatment to individuals in a variety of settings.
To work within the community respiratory multidisciplinary team to promote self-management and hospital avoidance in patients with chronic respiratory disease.
To provide ambulatory oxygen assessments to both chronic respiratory and long COVID patients.
To be the lead of a community-based pulmonary rehabilitation group.
To work in conjunction with the clinical lead to scope lack of provision of pulmonary rehabilitation to certain groups of people.
To improve access to pulmonary rehabilitation which may involve looking at community buildings, liaising with stakeholders and holding focus groups looking at barriers to rehabilitation.
Working with other key partners to evaluate services offered to specific groups of people such as people with learning disabilities or non-English speaking patients.
To provide clinical outcomes for all patients enrolled at an additional venue.
Job Responsibilities
* Act as a specialist physiotherapist within the pulmonary rehabilitation team and contribute to evolving and embedding best practice into the clinical area.
* Manage autonomously specialist physiotherapy caseload in chronic respiratory disease.
* Carry out specialist assessment and rehabilitation of patients with respiratory disease, including implementing, evaluating, and modifying individual treatment programmes.
* Possess a working knowledge of the community oxygen assessment service and the ability to complete an ambulatory oxygen assessment if required.
* Develop effective links with other community and specialist respiratory services including General Practitioners, Practice Nurses, and Respiratory Physicians.
* Take part in the education and training of Physiotherapists and qualified and non-qualified healthcare/social services/education staff including medical staff.
* Support the Clinical Lead in the day-to-day running of the pulmonary rehabilitation team including support staff.
* Implement strategies and initiate a treatment plan for managing patients with complex respiratory needs in community settings.
* Participate in the supervision process with staff and students as required.
* Ensure a high standard of patient care is provided including implementing and reviewing clinical standards relevant to the work undertaken.
Person Specification
Qualifications / Training
* Physiotherapy Degree
* Registered with HCPC
* Clinical Educator training
* Computer literature with experience in using health-related systems such as Systmone, EPR, and EMIS
* Evidence of postgraduate training in the respiratory field
* Member of the Professional body
* Member of a respiratory network/ACPRC
* Experience in respiratory care/pulmonary rehabilitation/group work
Knowledge, Experience & Expertise
* Recent experience demonstrating ability to assess, treat and evaluate care within the core area of both respiratory physiotherapy and long COVID within the NHS.
* Excellent clinical reasoning skills and the ability to maintain accurate records.
* Previous experience in Pulmonary rehabilitation and/or respiratory care including Planning and delivering programs, and delivering group education sessions.
* Evidence of recent experience in supervising, developing, and training others.
* The ability to lead assessment and treatment sessions and create detailed and comprehensive treatment plans for complex respiratory patients.
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.
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
£37,338 to £44,962 a year per annum pro rata
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