Lead Physiotherapist – Pulmonary Rehabilitation
The closing date is 18 July 2025
Job summary
ESNEFT have an exciting opportunity available for a B7 Lead Physiotherapist within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service, fixed term until 28th February 2025.
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation service is a team of physiotherapists and assistants. It has close links with the Suffolk Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, the Suffolk Community COPD team, the heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation services.
The team is busy, adaptable and pride themselves in their holistic care approach. We provide Pulmonary Rehabilitation (exercise and education courses) to patients with chronic respiratory diseases throughout Ipswich and the East of Suffolk.
The purpose of this role is to provide accountability and leadership to the East Suffolk Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.
Main duties of the job
To provide good governance of the pulmonary rehabilitation team within the Trust's accountability framework of Caring, Effective, Responsive, Safe, & Well Lead
To ensure staff supervisions and appraisals are completed in a timely fashion
To provide learning and development opportunities for team members in line with their agreed objectives.
To ensure sickness within the team is managed in a compassionate fashion, while complying with the Trusts policy
To represent the service at a CDG / Divisional level and to promote and advocate for it accordingly
To delegate leadership tasks to more junior members of the team as required.
To take responsibility for ensuring that the service needs are met by the capacity of staff available to deliver that service.
To supervise, educate and assess physiotherapy students to a graduate level.
To be involved in enhancing communication and partnership working, attending relevant MDT meetings.
About us
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients' own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what's widely regarded as the world's best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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Details
Date posted
14 July 2025
Pay scheme
Agenda for change
Band
Band 7
Salary
£46,148 to £52,809 a year per annum
Contract
Fixed term
Duration
7 months
Working pattern
Full-time
Reference number
432-HR470-25
Job locations
Allington House
Ipswich
IP4 4ER
Employer details
Employer name
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
Address
Allington House
Ipswich
IP4 4ER
Employer's website
https://www.esneft.nhs.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)
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