Cleveland Clinic London

Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist

Central London - Victoria Full time

                    

Our vision is to be the best place for healthcare anywhere and the best place to work in healthcare.

We believe that every life deserves world class healthcare.

                        

Job Summary

Salary: Competitive (depending on experience)

Hours: 37.5 hours a week

Location: 33 Grosvenor Place, London, United Kingdom. SW1X 7HY

Contract: 10 months fixed-term, Permanent

  

What are we looking for?

Cleveland Clinic London are looking to recruit a Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our Therapy Services team with a competitive salary range on offer dependent on experience.

This is a full time, fixed-term role with the following shift patterns: 

Monday to Friday

8am - 4pm

10am - 6pm

There will be a mixture of both shift times as per service needs with some weekend working requirements as overtime (1 in 6 weekends).

What makes us different?

Cleveland Clinic London offers a brand-new high-acuity environment with the very latest equipment, where caregivers are encouraged to grow their expertise across multiple specialties, and in collaboration with expert clinicians. Our Mission, ‘Caring for life, researching for health, and educating those who serve’, assures our unwavering commitment to professional development.    

As an autonomous practitioner within a multidisciplinary team, the highly specialist respiratory/surgery Physiotherapist will assess, treat and manage their own caseload and provide highly specialist respiratory physiotherapy skills.

This role will report directly to Clinical Lead ICU Physiotherapist and be part of a highly innovative, evidence based, forward thinking critical care therapy team. This role will provide therapy provision to surgical service and work within the wider respiratory team covering acute respiratory areas and ICU. 

What will your duties include?

  • Assist in operational management and deliver respiratory physiotherapy with advanced assessment, management and clinical reasoning to surgical and respiratory patients including the acutely deteriorating patient linking in with the wider MDT

  • Provide and act as a source of clinical expertise in the physiotherapy management of ICU / surgical / respiratory patients to MDT deputising for the clinical lead ICU Physiotherapist as required

  • Educate and train physiotherapists and other MDT members with innovation and passion around respiratory care, the role of physiotherapy and acute rehabilitation

  • Keep informed of evidence, changes to practice, relevant research and guidance to discuss at regular opportunities to progress and develop own / MDT practice

  • Identify areas of research and quality improvement priorities to add to wider respiratory physiotherapy development strategy

What we need from you?

  • Degree in relevant AHP area

  • Current registration with Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC)

  • Extensive experience in acute respiratory management, management of surgical patient, management of intensive care patients  and patients with tracheostomy

  • Experience of audit, quality improvement, clinical effectiveness and project planning

  • Experience of deputizing for operational team lead for day to day management of team and caseload

What We Offer

As a private hospital with no shareholders, we reinvest all profits back into our organisation. This allows us to provide meaningful, tailored support and development opportunities for our caregivers - alongside a range of benefits, including:

  • 25 days annual leave plus Bank Holidays

  • Double-matched salary exchange pension – contribute 5% and we’ll contribute 10%

  • Private Medical & Dental Insurance

  • Life Assurance

  • Season Ticket Loan & Cycle to Work schemes

  • Workplace Nursery Scheme

  • Wellbeing Hub with mental health, coaching and EAP support

  • Earned Wage Access - get early access to part of your pay when needed

  • Access to discounts on food, retail, and more

Who we are?

Cleveland Clinic is one of the leading providers of specialised medical care in the world, providing clinical excellence and superior patient outcomes for almost 6 million patient visits per year across more than 200 locations. We employ over 80,000 caregivers worldwide and continue to drive innovation in healthcare.

  

With over 100 years of history, our “Patients First” philosophy is at the heart of everything that we do.

If you would like to know more, please email recruitment@ccf.org.

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Applicant shortlisting and interviews may take place whilst the advert is live, so it may close sooner than expected - please submit your application as soon as possible. Due to the volume of applications, we are not always able to provide individual feedback.

Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check

This role may be subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order (as amended) and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

“Let’s deliver World Class care together!”

As an equal opportunities employer, we aspire to work together to promote a more inclusive work environment, which represents our commitment to celebrate diversity.

CCL is committed to applying its Equal Employment Opportunity/Workforce Diversity and Inclusion Policy  at all stages of recruitment and privileging. Shortlisting, interviewing and selection will always be carried out without regard to any Protected Characteristics. When aware of the need to do so and when required, CCL will make reasonable adjustments to its arrangements for interviews and to conditions of employment/engagement for disabled applicants to ensure, so far as practicable, that they do not place such applicants at a substantial disadvantage in comparison to non-disabled applicants.