Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (pro rata weekends/ on-calls)
- Job ref
- 196-LIS10010M
- Employer
- Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Royal Brompton Hospital
- Town
- London
- Salary
- £56,276 - £63,176 pro rata incl. HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/11/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist
NHS AfC: Band 7
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
An opportunity for an experienced respiratory physiotherapist to join the outpatient physiotherapy service has arisen. The role is cross site - delivering outpatient care to patients at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.
The post holder will undertake a highly specialist team leader role under the guidance of the therapy lead for lung therapy and clinical specialist physiotherapists to provide highly specialist physiotherapy to outpatients with chronic respiratory disease including severe asthma, bronchiectasis, and interstitial lung disease.
This will include planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating physiotherapy provided, with a focus on outpatients.
The post holder will supervise junior members of the respiratory physiotherapy team and play an active part in the on-call and weekend services.
Whilst this role is based at the Royal Brompton and Harefield, the post holder may be required to travel to other sites within the organisation.
Main duties of the job
To provide highly specialist physiotherapist care to patients with chronic respiratory disease, as a specialist clinician within the lung therapy service in predominantly outpatient and day case settings.
To play a key role in the tertiary multiprofessional services to patients with severe asthma, non-CF bronchiectasis, interstitial lung disease, complex COPD including the LVR pathway.
Taking a lead role, alongside the service management team to plan, co-ordinate, deliver and evaluate the outpatient physiotherapy service.
To lead the advanced assessment and treatment of patients who may have highly complex needs, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated and maintain records as an autonomous practitioner.
To organise, co-ordinate and deliver the service day to day within the hospital and to support the development of the service, along with other members of the adult lung team
To supervise junior team members .
To play a major role in the continuous development of the service using audit, evaluation and quality improvement methodology.
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.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
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. We provide 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.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Patient / customer care (both direct and indirect)
- To be professionally and legally responsible and accountable for all aspects of your own work including the management of patients in your care.
- To ensure a high standard of clinical care for the patients under your management and to support more junior staff to do likewise on a daily basis.
- To interpret and analyse clinical and non-clinical facts to form accurate diagnosis and prognoses in a wide range of highly complex conditions, to recommend the best course of intervention, and to develop comprehensive discharge plans.
- To undertake an advanced comprehensive assessment of patients, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative and analytical skills, and to formulate individualised management and treatment plans using clinical reasoning, and utilising a wide range or treatment skills and options to formulate a specialised programme of care.
- This role will require staff to work in a variety of clinical areas including critical care, in-patient wards, outpatient and virtual settings
- To coordinate the assessment and triaging of patients whom may need follow up
- To be responsible for the training of staff in the care of hospital patients from basic to complex including terminally ill patients.
- To accept clinical responsibility for a designated specialised caseload of patients, and to organise this effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time.
- To demonstrate highly developed dexterity, co-ordination and palpatory senses for assessment and manual treatment of patients.
- To provide spontaneous and planned advice, teaching and instruction to relatives, carers, patients and other professionals to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy, and to ensure a consistent approach to patient care.
Please job description document for full job responsibilities.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Physiotherapy degree and current HCPC reg
- M level post graduate training
Desirable criteria
- Membership of special interest groups/ committees
- Extended scope skills
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-qualification experience with a minimum of three years in acute medicine/cardio-respiratory/critical care.
- Leadership training and experience
- Outpatient services
Desirable criteria
- Relevant advanced specialist/ extended scope skills
Skills
Essential criteria
- Outpatients/ service management
- Service evaluation/ QI
Desirable criteria
- Competent IT skills
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
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.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Oliver Smith
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Additional information
Gemma Korff
Therapy Lead
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