Job summary
Employer heading
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist – Adult Critical Care Unit
Band 7
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
Barts Health supports the Pregnancy Loss Pledge and commits to supporting their staff through the distress of miscarriage.
Job overview
An exciting substantive opportunity has arisen for an experienced Band 6 or established Band 7 physiotherapist to join the ACCU Physiotherapy team. The team offers a service across the 54 bedded ACCU with a variety of major trauma, surgery, medicine, neurotrauma, and complex polytrauma cases. The post offers rotational experience across the 4E Level 3 ACCU, 4F Level 2 ACCU and 3F Surgical HDU. The post offers opportunities to develop our Rehabilitation after Critical Illness (RaCl) service, and the RLH ICU Follow-up clinic with opportunities to branch into our Musculoskeletal outpatients team.
The post holder will support the Clinical Lead with day to day running of the team, oversight of their ACCU pod and governance for their area. The post holder will be an integral part of the ACCU MDT, supporting weekly complex patient MDM, tracheostomy ward rounds, and participate in ICU ward rounds. The team has a strong ethos for clinical and team education and development, innovation, and research opportunities.
The successful applicant will have a broad range of acute and critical care experience, be a motivated team player, and deliver high quality care within the framework of a multi-disciplinary team.
Main duties of the job
To assist in coordinating and developing the physiotherapy service in the Adult Critical Care Unit (ACCU) at the Royal London Hospital. The post holder will play a major and specialist role in the advanced assessment, treatment and clinical management of patients across the ACCUs involving major trauma/neurosciences, specialist medicine and surgery specialities, determining the clinical diagnosis, functional deficits and delivering current physiotherapy treatments. The post holder will be responsible for providing clinical and professional leadership to a team of qualified staff in the ACCU physiotherapy team.
Key areas/rotations to work across
- 4E Level 3 ACCU
- 4F Level 2 ACCU
- 3F Level 2 ACCU
- ICU Follow-up service with exposure to musculoskeletal outpatient services
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Diploma or Degree in physiotherapy
- HCPC registration
- DBS clearance
- Evidence of post graduate training relevant to clinical specialty
Desirable criteria
- Member of CSP
- Member of relevant professional special interest group
- Formal post graduate qualification relevant to clinical specialty
- Clinical educators training
- Leadership training
Experience
Essential criteria
- Extensive post graduate clinical experience in critical care
- Experience in the assessment and treatment of patients with complex neuro and/or trauma presentations
- Experience in the management of acute and chronic respiratory conditions
- Experience of managing a team and supervising junior members of staff
- Experience of providing and participating in an inservice training programme
- Clinical experience in an acute hospital setting
Desirable criteria
- Evidence in the adoption of innovative physiotherapy practices in critical care
- Involvement/participation in research pertaining to the critical care population
- Clinical experience in the NHS/Pathways
- Experience of ICU follow up services
- Experience in musculoskeletal specialism
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Musie Tsehaye
- Job title
- Clinical Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
List jobs with Barts Health NHS Trust in Allied Health Professions or all sectors