Overview
CYPS Community Respiratory Physiotherapist. This post is offered on a part time permanent basis for 22.5 hours a week. The post holder will be a Band 7 Physiotherapist specialising in respiratory care within paediatrics and participate as a member of the Gloucestershire Children's Physiotherapy team, independently managing a specialised clinical caseload. This role involves assessment, advising, planning, delivering and evaluating treatment for a complex caseload of children and their families. The post holder may also co-ordinate a local team on a day-to-day basis, taking responsibility for delegation, supervision, development and teaching.
This role is within a well established community team. It provides an exciting and evolving opportunity to impact and support patients and their families in their home environments. The wider team is supportive and dynamic, with a wealth of expertise to draw on. Clinical and operational supervision, as well as support to attend wider networks, are encouraged and provided.
Main duties
The purpose of this post is to provide highly specialist physiotherapy outside of the hospital setting for children presenting with complex respiratory needs. Responsibilities include ongoing maintenance physiotherapy programmes, manual techniques, suction and other airway clearance techniques, including suction. The post holder will work closely with paediatric respiratory physiotherapists in the hospital setting, as well as with neuromuscular physiotherapists and the wider respiratory multidisciplinary team. The post holder will collaboratively develop the service and provide a source of expertise locally, offering education and support for parents/carers and community staff caring for these children. The post holder will provide leadership within the Children & Young People\'s Physiotherapy Service, coordinating, developing, auditing and evaluating the service in line with Clinical Governance requirements. This post is community based and the post holder will carry their own caseload and may work independently in locations away from base.
Key duties include undertaking all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner, planning and organising own workload, being professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload, managing clinical risk, assessing capacity and obtaining informed consent, undertaking comprehensive respiratory assessments of children (including complex presentations), formulating individualised respiratory management programmes, evaluating progress and adjusting management as required, providing education and instruction to families and carers, participating in multidisciplinary/multi-agency meetings, maintaining accurate clinical records, participating in audits, producing reports, evaluating own work through audits and outcome measures, initiating audit projects, participating in clinics, and adhering to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy guidelines.
Responsibilities (detailed)
* To undertake all aspects of clinical duties as an autonomous practitioner
* To plan and organise own work load
* To be professionally and legally accountable for a designated patient caseload and to decide priorities for own work area, balancing other patient related and professional demands
* To manage clinical risk within own patient caseload
* To assess patients capacity, gain valid informed consent to treatment and where capacity is lacking/absent to work within a legal framework in the management of the patient
* To undertake the comprehensive and accurate respiratory assessment of children, including those with a complex presentation, using investigative, analytical and clinical reasoning skills
* To formulate individualised respiratory management programmes, utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options to plan a specialised programme of care for use in the community
* To undertake evaluation of patient progress, reassess and alter physiotherapy management programmes as required
* To provide spontaneous and planned advice, problem solving expertise, teaching and instruction to families, carers, other disciplines and agencies to promote understanding of the aims of physiotherapy and to ensure continuation of the respiratory management programme across all areas of the child\'s daily environment
* To participate in and where appropriate initiate multidisciplinary/multi-agency team meetings and case conferences to ensure the co-ordination of patient care. This may include the review of patient progress and discharge planning
* To ensure accurate, comprehensive and up to date clinical records are maintained in accordance with Trust guidance and professionally agreed criteria
* To participate in the collection of data for audit purposes
* To produce comprehensive patient related reports for other disciplines or agencies relating to assessment findings and/or treatment/management outcomes
* To undertake the measurement and evaluation of own work through audit, outcome measurement, the application of evidence-based practice and research as appropriate
* To identify and initiate audit projects to review current clinical practice
* To participate in clinics appropriate to the child\'s physiotherapy respiratory management
* To work to Trust and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy clinical guidelines and have a good working knowledge of relevant national standards to which quality of practice should be monitored
* To assist the Service lead with the prioritisation and management of the departmental patient caseload
Job description and person specification
Essential qualifications
* Diploma/degree in Physiotherapy
* State Registered Physiotherapist (HCPC)
Desirable
* Experience of working closely with medical practitioners and across professional boundaries
* Appropriate range of postgraduate clinical education
Details
Date posted: 30 July 2025
Pay scheme: Agenda for change • Band 7 • Salary £47,810 to £54,710 a year per annum (pro rata)
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Part-time, Flexible working
Reference number: 327-25-498-A
Job locations: Springbank Resource Centre, Springbank Way, Cheltenham, GL51 0LG
Employer details
Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust
Springbank Resource Centre
Springbank Way
Cheltenham, GL51 0LG
Employer's website: https://www.ghc.nhs.uk/who-we-are/jobs/
Notes: This post includes standard disclosures and sponsorship information as applicable per UK immigration and professional registration requirements. UK registration and relevant checks are required as part of the application process.
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