Respiratory Specialist Physiotherapist

Job summary

You will be working as an autonomous practitioner within the Integrated Respiratory Services in North Mid in the Community. You will be flexible and work across a geographical area.

You will provide specialist respiratory assessment, diagnosis and evidence-based treatment programmes to meet a wide variety of patient needs in the most appropriate location in the community. You will also provide advice, guidance and information to health and social care professionals, carers and relatives, with regards to respiratory care. This will include Pulmonary Rehabilitation, Chest Clearance Clinics and Home visits.

You will be responsible for organising and providing pulmonary rehabilitation to the patients of Enfield in the community setting to the highest standard with the respiratory assistant.

You will act as a source of physiotherapy advice for other members of the team which includes the primary care team, other health professionals, acute services, social services, voluntary sector, private sector homes, patients and their carers.

Main duties of the job

To be clinically responsible for a designated caseload of respiratory patients including COPD and rehabilitation patients, ensuring high standards of care.

Organise workload effectively and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time, and in accordance with service demand/ requirements on a changing basis.

Use of relevant and appropriate screening tools.

To adhere to recent evidence base and review patients with a view to ensure safe and effective COPD treatments/ management.

Act as an educational resource for patients, families/ carers and other healthcare professional/ multidisciplinary colleagues, with respect to all aspects of COPD and rehabilitation.

To contribute to the planning and evaluation of community based Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes.

To deliver Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes acting as an autonomous practitioner.

To provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, psychological and emotional conditions.

To use advanced clinical reasoning skills and manual assessment techniques to provide an accurate diagnosis of their condition.

About us

NMUH North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Hospital Trust (NMUH) is one of London's busiest healthcare providers, providing hospital care and community services for the 350,000 people living in Enfield, Haringey and beyond. Our specialist services include HIV, cardiology, blood disorders, diabetes, fertility, sickle cell and thalassemia. In addition to a full range of cancer diagnosis and treatment services, the Helen Rollason Cancer Support Centre is based on-site and provides services to support cancer patients' wellbeing. We also provide community services and have a dedicated 0-19 service for children and young people in Enfield so that they can get the best possible start in life. This includes health visitors and school nurses who are delivering the national Healthy Child Programme, which provides a structured framework for the delivery of key interventions to support the health and wellbeing of children and families from 0 to 5 and school aged children from 5-19. The 0-19 service aims to improve pathways and partnerships with services in the hospital and deliver excellent care for the children and families. For more information, please access the following link: https://www.northmid.nhs.uk/