Community Exercise Volunteer

Kingston Hospital - First Acute Trust in London to be rated Outstanding by CQC for Overall Quality and Leadership

Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is a district general hospital situated in a beautiful and remarkable part of the country – close to London yet surrounded by royal parks, historic buildings and the River Thames. We are located on a single site in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey and run several outpatient clinics in neighbouring areas including Raynes Park Health Centre and Teddington Memorial Hospital.

We employ just under 5000 staff who proudly and efficiently support over 350,000 people locally through a full range of diagnostic and treatment services and we have a national reputation for innovative developments in healthcare, particularly in 'patient-focused' care, day surgery and maternity services.

The South West London Collaborative Bank

Kingston Hospital is a part of the local South West London Collaborative and offer competitive bank rates to work across the three NHS trusts: St Georges, Kingston Hospital and Epsom & St Helier. Our Smart App booking system makes life easier for flexible working!

Health and Wellbeing & Staff Benefits

The Trust understands that benefits go beyond just financial rewards and invests heavily in the wellbeing of its staff. Alongside opportunities for career development, there is a dedicated team of Staff Pastoral Wellbeing Practitioners who work with the Clinical and Corporate divisions, to provide pastoral support to all staff. These Practitioners are part of the wider Health & Wellbeing provision which includes a specialist Staff Physiotherapist, Occupational Health and access to counselling and an Employee Assistance Programme. The team works together to enhance staff wellbeing and to promote a healthy work-life balance.

Recent awards:

- Our Health Heroes Awards 2018 – Staff Retention and Wellbeing Employer of the Year

- HPMA Vivup Award for Well Being 2019

- NHSE National Healthcare Support Worker Award for Innovation and Excellence in Pastoral Support – 2023

- NHSE London Healthcare Support Worker Award for Sustainable Retention Initiative – 2023

Trust Values

Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are: 

- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Job overview

We are delighted to be offering this Band 8a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist post in Respiratory. We are looking for an experienced, innovative and enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our expanding, forward thinking and dynamic team. This role will support complex respiratory patients in all our inpatient wards at Kingston Hospital, including ICU, Paediatrics, Surgery, Medicine and Care of the Elderly.

For further details or an informal visit contact:

Anna Melvin ( anna.melvin@nhs.net ) or Jacqui Holmes (jacqui.holmes4@nhs.net) Physiotherapy Operational Leads

Main duties of the job

To be the Physiotherapy Clinical Lead for complex respiratory patients on the inpatient wards, including Intensive Care Unit and paediatrics.

To perform as an autonomous practitioner undertaking a specific clinical caseload in the expert assessment and treatment of patients who often have highly complex and/or chronic presentations, using expert clinical reasoning skills in order to provide optimal physiotherapy management.

To be responsible for ensuring clinically effective physical rehabilitation is delivered as part of the critical care rehabilitation pathway

To identify areas for audit and research within areas of expertise to drive departmental objectives and facilitate change.

Working for our organisation

Kingston Hospital is an Outstanding-rated CQC Trust. It is a busy acute district general hospital with a strong culture of Trust values.

Trust Values
Kingston Hospital NHS Trust has five key values and we want to employ and work with people who share these values and demonstrate behaviours that support them. They are: 

- Caring – Design and deliver care around each individual patient’s needs and wants.
- Safe – Make the safety of patients and staff our prime concern as safety comes first
- Responsible – All staff take responsibility for the hospital, its services and reputation
- Value Each Other – Value each other's contribution
- Inspiring - We always strive to empower each other to develop and deliver improvements to benefit our patients

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

**Please see the attached supporting job description and person specification document, which contains more information about the role and requirements. Please ensure your application refers to the job description and person specification**

Person specification

Qualifications

Essential criteria

Bsc/Msc Physiotherapy

HCPC Registration

Experience

Essential criteria

Band 7 or above respiratory experience

Knowledge and experience with wide range of respiratory conditions

Expert knowledge & application of respiratory treatment options

Expert knowledge of tracheostomy management

Staff supervision and clinical development experience

Clinical governance experience

Desirable criteria

Experience with formal presentations to MDT

Knowledge

Essential criteria

Experience of research in respiratory field

Desirable criteria

Service development experience

Skills

Essential criteria

Clinical leadership experience and attendance at relevant courses

Exceptional team working skills

Your application : Please ensure that you have read the job description and person specification and that your supporting statement reflects these, as your application will be assessed and scored against these criteria.

References : You will be required to provide 3 years of employment/educational history. We do not accept references from personal email addresses such as Hotmail, Gmail etc. therefore please ensure you are providing professional working email addresses within your application form. If you are unable to provide professional email addresses and are invited to an interview, please ensure you advise the interviewers of this - otherwise, this may delay your pre-employment checks.

Closing date : In order to streamline recruitment within our Trust, we reserve the right to expire vacancies prior to the advertised closing date once we have received a sufficient number of applications.

Shortlisting : You will only be contacted via e-mail/SMS by the SWL Recruitment Hub if you are successfully shortlisted for this post. Please ensure that you check your Trac registered e-mail regularly.

DBS : We are committed to safeguarding children and adults who are at risk of abuse. As such, if this post will have access to children or vulnerable adults, you will be required to undertake an Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. However, all employees have a responsibility for safeguarding children and vulnerable adults in the course of their duties and for ensuring that they are aware of the specific duties relating to their role.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

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.