Clinical Respiratory Lead

Job summary

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

About us

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.