Job summary
The Royal Brompton Hospital provides one of the UK's largest specialist adult Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) services, delivering highly specialised, multidisciplinary care to adults with this rare, complex respiratory condition. The service supports a large regional and national caseload, offering outpatient and inpatient care, long-term disease management, and close collaboration with paediatric and local respiratory teams.
The adult PCD service is delivered by an experienced multidisciplinary team including respiratory consultants, specialist nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists, and administrative staff. The service provides comprehensive outpatient and inpatient care, diagnostic review, long-term disease management, exacerbation support, and education to enable patients to self-manage their condition effectively.
Physiotherapy is a core and integral component of the adult PCD service, playing a key role in assessment, treatment planning, and long-term management, with a strong focus on airway clearance, exercise / physical activity promotion, and patient education. Physiotherapists work autonomously and collaboratively within the MDT, contributing to service development, clinical leadership, audit, and research, to ensure the delivery of evidence-based, high-quality care aligned with national and international standards for PCD management.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be a highly specialist clinician with responsibility for the planning, co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of the adult PCD service on a day-to-day basis. This is primarily in an outpatient setting, day case and virtual clinics. They will work across the Adult PCD service and be based within the adult CF / PCD therapy team. They will work alongside fellow band 7 physiotherapists and will provide support and leadership to rotational band 5 and band 6 physiotherapists, as well as an exercise practitioner.
About us
Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK's best-known hospitals - Guy's, St Thomas', Evelina London Children's Hospital, Royal Brompton, and Harefield - as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research, and innovation. We are among the UK's busiest, most successful foundation trusts.
Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy's and St Thomas' in February 2021 and is the largest specialist heart and lung centre in the UK and among the largest in Europe. Weprovide treatment for people with heart and lung disease, including rare and complex conditions, offering some of the most sophisticated treatment that is available anywhere in the world.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Our values help us to define and develop our culture, what we do and how we do it. It is important that you understand and reflect these values throughout your employment with the Trust. Our values are: We Are
Caring - we put patients first
Ambitious - we innovate and strive for excellence
Inclusive - we respect each other and work collaboratively
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role will involve:
- Taking a lead role as an autonomous practitioner within the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of adults with PCD. This will include patients who may have highly complex needs, acute, chronic, disabling and life limiting conditions. Interventions may include, but are not limited to, the management of complex airway clearance, optimising non-invasive ventilation, drug-response assessments, exercise prescription and supporting patients at end-of-life.
- Leading in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the PCD and wider respiratory physiotherapy service.
- Multidisciplinary team working and consultation with staff, including doctors, nurses, wider PCD MDT, and other members of the CF/PCD therapy team
- Being a highly specialist resource and providing education and training tomedical and other multi-disciplinary staff, both within PCD and the wider R&T team
- Supervising and line managing junior members of the adult CF/PCD and/or respiratory medicine physiotherapy teams.
- Maintaining collective responsibility for the continuing professional development and overall performance of all physiotherapy staff in the adult CF/PCD therapy service.
- Deputising for the Adult CF Clinical Speciality Lead when required.
- Utilising quality improvement andresearch skills for audit, policy and service development, as well as clinical research.
- Working clinically across respiratory medicine services with ability to lead in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory medicine patients including sleep and ventilation, asthma, CF, bronchiectasis and ILD.
Further information about the role, duties and responsibilities are outlined within the attached job description.
Job description
Job responsibilities
The role will involve:
- Taking a lead role as an autonomous practitioner within the advanced assessment, clinical diagnosis, and treatment of adults with PCD. This will include patients who may have highly complex needs, acute, chronic, disabling and life limiting conditions. Interventions may include, but are not limited to, the management of complex airway clearance, optimising non-invasive ventilation, drug-response assessments, exercise prescription and supporting patients at end-of-life.
- Leading in the planning, co-ordination, delivery and evaluation of the PCD and wider respiratory physiotherapy service.
- Multidisciplinary team working and consultation with staff, including doctors, nurses, wider PCD MDT, and other members of the CF/PCD therapy team
- Being a highly specialist resource and providing education and training tomedical and other multi-disciplinary staff, both within PCD and the wider R&T team
- Supervising and line managing junior members of the adult CF/PCD and/or respiratory medicine physiotherapy teams.
- Maintaining collective responsibility for the continuing professional development and overall performance of all physiotherapy staff in the adult CF/PCD therapy service.
- Deputising for the Adult CF Clinical Speciality Lead when required.
- Utilising quality improvement andresearch skills for audit, policy and service development, as well as clinical research.
- Working clinically across respiratory medicine services with ability to lead in the assessment and treatment of complex respiratory medicine patients including sleep and ventilation, asthma, CF, bronchiectasis and ILD.
Further information about the role, duties and responsibilities are outlined within the attached job description.
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- HCPC Registered Physiotherapist
- Evidence of CPD / further professional development
Desirable
- Member of CSP and/or ACPRC
- Student educators course
- Further training in respiratory medicine (courses, conferences)
Experience
Essential
- Senior cardiorespiratory physiotherapy experience
- MDT working experience
- Project work - audit, QI, service evaluation
Desirable
- Additional relevant experience in NIV, end of life care, pelvic health
- Teaching / lecturing experience
- Research experience
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills - delegation, coaching, mentoring, appraisal, line management
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
Person Specification
Qualification
Essential
- HCPC Registered Physiotherapist
- Evidence of CPD / further professional development
Desirable
- Member of CSP and/or ACPRC
- Student educators course
- Further training in respiratory medicine (courses, conferences)
Experience
Essential
- Senior cardiorespiratory physiotherapy experience
- MDT working experience
- Project work - audit, QI, service evaluation
Desirable
- Additional relevant experience in NIV, end of life care, pelvic health
- Teaching / lecturing experience
- Research experience
Skills
Essential
- Leadership skills - delegation, coaching, mentoring, appraisal, line management
- IT skills and computer literacy
- Advanced communication and interpersonal skills
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
