Senior Cardiothoracic Physiotherapist

Senior Cardiothoracic Physiotherapist Band 7 equivalent with proven Cardiothoracic experience including managing complex cardiac and head and neck cancer patients.

Full-time - 37.5 hours per week

Location - Cromwell Hospital, Kensington, SW5 0TU

Competitive salary offered

As a Senior Cardiothoracic Physiotherapist, you will be able to confidently carry out your duties as an autonomous practitioner. You will work as a cardiothoracic specialist in a wider inpatient MDT. You will triage and manage patient referrals from both inpatients and outpatients with varied conditions including complex or chronic presentations or multiple comorbidities. Your caseload will include conditions such as cardiac, abdominal and head and neck surgeries, complex medical respiratory admissions, and respiratory conditions including COPD, Bronchiectasis, Long COVID and breathing pattern disorders.

You will need to work over multiple wards, including acute admissions unit, intensive care, surgical, cardiac and medical wards as required. Referrals may also include pre-admission and pre-operative assessment, post-operative intervention and recovery programmes. You will receive referrals from the wards, acute admissions unit, outpatient consultants and GP clinics as well as via external routes. Participation in developing and implementing Outpatient rehabilitation pathways is essential, for example a cardiac rehabilitation programme and prehabilitation for major surgeries. You will have the opportunity to enhance your skills in service development and expand a range of skills across the cardiothoracic service.

This role includes participation in the emergency adult respiratory on-call rota, being compliant with the required respiratory competencies and covering both weekdays, weekends and bank holidays as the service requires. You will have the opportunity to cover weekend service as additional bank shifts.

What you’ll do:

• To practise as an autonomous and accountable professional using reflective practice and advanced clinical reasoning skills in undertaking specialist assessment to provide an individualised treatment programme with client-centred goals.
• To provide appropriate and accurate information, education and support for your client groups and their carers.
• To participate in discharge planning and liaise with external agencies to ensure a discharge that is safe and supportive of the patient’s ongoing care and rehabilitation needs.
• This could include home assessments within our catchment area.
• To confidently use respiratory equipment, updating competencies as upskill is required and to participate in the training and upskilling of the wider team.
• To attend any speciality MDT meetings and establish rapport with the wider MDT including but not limited to consultants, specialist nurses, and other relevant professionals.
• To participate in the induction of new and less experienced staff members.
• To inspire others and promote participation to enhance the individual attributes and collective strengths of the team.

What you’ll bring:

• Degree in Physiotherapy.
• HCPC registration membership.
• Proven broad experience in the field of cardiorespiratory physiotherapy including acute respiratory, critical care, general surgery and general medical caseloads.
• Knowledge of specialist devices appropriate to respiratory care.
• Passionate and competent in cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation.
• Experience with tracheostomy care and complex weaning.
• Respiratory On call experience and availability.

Benefits:

• Payment of professional registration fees.
• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Generous refer a friend scheme.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• An enhanced pension plan, life insurance and income protection.
• Support with travel costs via a season ticket loan or cycle2work.
• Discounted access to online gym sessions.
• Various family friendly benefits.
• Free onsite massages for staff.
• Subsidised staff canteen.

Why Bupa?

We’re a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose - helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do. We encourage all our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve. That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

If you would like more information on the role, please contact via email on adele.orchard@bupa.com.