Thoracic Surgery and PEA Deputy Team Lead Physiotherapist

Support and teaching to enable you to provide excellent patient care across thoracic surgery

Specialist departmental and team in service training

Regular one to ones, clinical supervision, appraisals, and competency support

In house courses and access to external courses and conferences

Involvement with expert multi-disciplinary teams

Advanced skills teaching and competencies across the specialities at Royal Papworth, in order to support out of hours physiotherapy provision.

Opportunity for service development projects

Participation in audits and research.

Support and guidance for you to mentor students and junior staff.

To undertake an independent comprehensive, assessment of surgical patients who have a wide variety of clinical presentations with a range of complexities.

To effectively communicate and integrate Physiotherapy treatment plans to a wide range of health professionals involved in the patients care.

To have an awareness of evidence-base and current developments and how this impacts clinical practice.

To actively participate and lead sessions in team and departmental learning opportunities including in-service training (IST) sessions, clinical supervision and education.

To provide leadership, supervision and mentorship for junior staff and students, and deputise for the Team Lead physiotherapist.

To participate in and lead relevant audit, service improvement projects, and research with support from senior staff.

On this page you will find a Role Profile which provides information about the hospital and full details about the role. We recommend that you review this and refer to it as you complete your application. Please include how you will meet the Trust Values Compassion, Excellence and Collaboration. If you would like more information about the role or working at Royal Papworth Hospital, please get in touch with the contact for this role.

Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is the UK's leading heart and lung hospital, delivering care to more than 50,000 patients a year in its new state-of-the-art hospital in Cambridge. We perform the most heart and/or lung transplants in the UK and carried out the UK's first successful heart transplant in 1979. It also offers emergency heart attack treatment, sleep centre care and is one of just five centres nationally for those in severe respiratory failure.

Based on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus the largest centre of medical research and health science in Europe the Trust is at the heart of treatments of the future. Royal Papworth became the first hospital trust in the country to be rated outstanding in all five areas assessed by the Care Quality Commission - a rating it still holds today. The Trust holds its values of compassion, excellence & collaboration at its core, and all colleagues joining the team are expected to uphold these in their day-to-day roles & interactions. Royal Papworth is proud of its diverse workforce and encourages people to embrace their individuality.

The Trust values difference and welcomes all applications irrespective of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy & maternity, race, religion & belief, sex and sexual orientation. Providing they meet the minimum post criteria, applicants with disabilities will be offered an interview.

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Qualifications

Essential: - BSc/ Pre- Reg MSc/ Grad. Dip. in Physiotherapy; - HCPC registration

Desirable: - CSP member; - Relevant specialist interest group membership e.g. ACPRC, SCTS

Experience

Additional Criteria