Job overview

A permanent or fixed term/secondment opportunity has arisen for an experienced individual to join our Critical Care team, working in the trust’s Adult Critical Care areas. You will work within a large team of physiotherapists lead by a Consultant physiotherapist to support the respiratory care, weaning and rehabilitation of a wide range of critically ill patients. 

We are a large multi-speciality hospital supporting both the local population and wider tertiary populations. You will have the opportunity to work in all of our perioperative specialities –John Farnam Intensive Care unit, and Neuroscience Critical Care Unit, (both are large multi-speciality and tertiary ICU’s).

You would be supported in learning new skills and gaining additional training to support your work within these large multi-speciality intensive care units. 

We can offer you:
•     Strong peer support
•    Positive commitment to CPD and post-graduate education. The department has a proven record of accomplishment in supporting those staff wishing to undertake Master’s level studies.
•    Development of your supervisory, teaching and management skills
•    Service development opportunities.
 The team is friendly and dedicated towards the delivery of an excellent service for all our users, as well as constantly looking at better ways to provide a service. You will be required to partake in our Emergency out of hour’s services, which includes our weekend and on-call services. 

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Specialist Practitioner you will have responsibilities that would include:

Planning, delivery and evaluation of the adult critical care physiotherapy service

Supervision of staff and students

To provide a high standard physiotherapy service to patients in a Perioperative bed (John Farman ICU, IDA, Neuro Critical care Unit (NCCU). You will also be required to occasionally treat patients in a level one surgical bed.

To undertake management roles including coordinating workloads, delegating duties, appraising and mentoring physiotherapists, participate in recruitment and selection.

To maintain specialist respiratory physiotherapy competency in order to participate in the out of hour's respiratory physiotherapy service and to assist in the training of Physiotherapy staff to a level of agreed competency.

To act independently and without supervision.

Working for our organisation

Our Trust

Cambridge University Hospitals (CUH) NHS Foundation Trust comprises Addenbrooke’s Hospital and the Rosie Hospital in Cambridge. With over 13,000 staff and over 1100 beds the priorities of the Trust focus on a quality service which is all about people – patients, staff and partners. Recognised as providing ‘outstanding’ care to our patients and rated ‘Good’ overall by the Care Quality Commissioner, is testament to the skill and dedication of the people who work here. CUH’s values – Together - Safe, Kind, Excellent – are at the heart of patient care, defining the way all staff work and behave. The Trust provides accessible high-quality healthcare for the local people of Cambridge, together with specialist services, dealing with rare or complex conditions for a regional, national and international population.

CUH is committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community - a place where we can all be ourselves. We value our differences and fully advocate and support an inclusive working environment where every individual can fulfil their potential. We want to ensure our people are truly representative of all the communities that we serve. We welcome applications for all positions in the organisation irrespective of people’s age, disability, ethnicity, race, nationality, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnership status, or pregnancy and maternity status or social economic background.