Job summary
- Main area
- Clinical Respiratory specialist
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 8a
- Contract
- Permanent: Weekends and some Bank Holidays
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Weekends and some Bank Holidays)
- Job ref
- 337-NP-8752MM
- Employer
- London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Ealing Hospital
- Town
- Southall
- Salary
- £59,490 - £66,239 per annum Inclusive of High Cost Area Supplement
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- Today at 23:59
Employer heading

Clinical Respiratory Lead
NHS AfC: Band 8a
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Find out more about our Trust and why you should join us#WeAreLNWH
Find out more about Our HEART values
Find out more about our Trust Staff Benefits
Our vision at London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust is to put “Quality at our HEART”. Find out more about our ambitious strategy
We are clear that our vision can only be achieved by our staff, who are our most valuable asset.
Our vision is driven by our HEART values and behaviours which were developed together with our staff.
- H onesty
- E quity
- A ccountability
- R espect
- T eamwork
These values describe how we interact with each other and our patients and must underpin everything we do to achieve our vision.
LNWUH is a flexible working friendly organisation, we want you to be able to work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Please speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.
Job overview
This role is an exciting career development opportunity for anyone at B7 wishing to progress into a more clinical specialist role whilst developing their operational and strategic leadership experience, or an existing B8a wishing to broaden their portfolio. We are looking for someone who is keen to gain experience leading high quality care and work within a diverse community and workforce.
The successful candidate will have proven clinical leadership skills and experience across medical and surgical specialisms including critical care in acute settings, with demonstrable compassionate and inclusive leadership skills. They will also have evident education experience, alongside experience in implementing change and a drive for improvement.
Main duties of the job
· To lead the delivery, monitoring and evaluation of high quality, safe, effective and efficient care across the medical/surgical and critical care unit.
· To work in partnership with the other respiratory clinical leads across site to evolve respiratory physiotherapy services to meet local, regional and national requirements and priorities.
· To manage the occupational therapy team working within the medical and surgical wards. To support the senior occupational therapist with operational service structure alongside clinical OT specialists.
· To work in partnership within the organisation, with the Senior Consultant, ward managers influencing and shaping new models of care.
· To foster and take innovative approaches to the development of respiratory physiotherapy service delivery amongst multiple teams
· To be an expert practitioner in physiotherapy provision to patients in specialist area(s) of respiratory physiotherapy practice. Working with an advanced level of professional autonomy, accountability and scope of practice
· To have a leading role in the development of quality improvement and research in area of clinical practice and / or service areas across the organisation
Working for our organisation
London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH) cares for the people of Brent, Ealing, Harrow and beyond.
Our team of more than 8,200 clinical and support staff serve a diverse population of almost one million people.
We run major acute services at:
- Northwick Park Hospital: home to one of the busiest emergency departments (A&E) in the country. The hospital provides a full range of services including the country’s top-rated hyper-acute stroke unit and one of only three hyper-acute rehabilitation units in the UK
- St Mark’s Hospital: an internationally renowned specialist centre for bowel disease
- Ealing Hospital: a busy district general hospital providing a range of clinical services, as well as 24/7 emergency department and urgent care centre, and specialist care at Meadow House Hospice
- Central Middlesex Hospital: our planned care site, hosting a range of surgical and outpatient services and collocated with an urgent care centre.
We are a university teaching NHS trust, in recognition of the important role we play in training clinicians of the future and bringing the benefits of research to the public.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
To view the main responsibility, please see the attached the Job Description and Person Specification.
Person specification
Education/ qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree / Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Evidence of CPD maintained in a portfolio showing regular practical and theoretical learning
- Attendance at recent post graduate courses relevant to the clinical rotations
Desirable criteria
- Member of relevant multi professional interest group
Knowledge and experience
Essential criteria
- Band 7 level experience in respiratory, including team management
- Experience of working within acute medicine, surgical and critical care wards
- Experience of working as part of a Physiotherapy team and / or multidisciplinary team.
Desirable criteria
- Experience of completing training programmes and teaching courses
Skills, abilities and attributes
Essential criteria
- Evidence of keeping abreast with professional practice and new research.
- Competent IT skills
- Understanding of clinical governance and its implications for services, including experience of quality issues and audit
- Excellent time management and organisational skills
Desirable criteria
- Ability to manage change and contain conflict ensuring resolution with positive outcomes; to build rapport, listen, negotiate and persuade.
- Understanding of managing occupational therapists
- Ability to critically appraise, translate and integrate evidence based research/guidelines into clinical practice where indicated
HEART values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrate commitment to Trust HEART values: honesty, equity, accountability, respect, and teamwork.
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
- Jessica Langley
- Job title
- Acute Therapy Manager
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07970355124
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