Go back Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Senior Respiratory Physiotherapist
The closing date is 26 August 2025
This role allows an enthusiastic Physiotherapist to join our Critical Care and Respiratory team, who have wide ranging clinical experience, good communication and interpersonal skills and a passion for delivering high quality patient-centred care.
Join our friendly and supportive team of therapists, where continuous professional development, research and quality improvement processes are encouraged .There is a well-established in-service education programme, where you can build upon your clinical and managerial skills with support from senior clinical leads.
Candidates will be expected to join and partake in our overnight emergency on call rota and weekend working rotas and previous experience of working within respiratory / Critical Care field is essential. You will also be expected to work as part of a seven day rota.
Main duties of the job
Within this role you will need:
- To be responsible for the Physiotherapy intervention for patients admitted to CCU and the acute respiratory adult in patient ward- To undertake assessments of respiratory out patients as require- Prioritise physiotherapy referrals in order to implement effective and timely caseload management- Determine clinical diagnosis and provide physiotherapy treatment indicated as an autonomous practitioner, developing appropriate care plans, giving specialist clinical/professional advice to patients, carers and other Health Care Professionals
About us
Our ambition is to deliver excellent local and specialist services, to improve the health and well being of our patients, and provide a vibrant place for staff to develop, innovate and build careers.
We aim to make the most of our skills and experiences so we can become the best we can be. As one organisation we will recruit the finest and retain more specialist staff due to more employment opportunities across our Trust
Job responsibilities
For more details regarding this exciting role please see job description and personal specification.
Person Specification
Qualifications
* HCPC registered physiotherapist
Managerial
* Evidence of supervision of staff or students
* Clinical educators course
knowledge and skills
* Band 5 experience in critical care and respiratory
* Respiratory on call experience
* Cradiothoracic experience
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.
Mid and South Essex NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 a yearPer Annum (Pro Rata for Part Time)
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