Physiotherapist for Thoracic Prehabilitation

A permanent post to establish and run an exciting new Thoracic Prehabilitation service across RBH and HH in alignment with an already established service at Guys Hospital The role includes both virtual and face to face assessment of patients undergoing thoracic surgery for suitability of an exercise group, and running of the exercise group. The role also includes education of patients regarding their upcoming surgery and post-op recovery. The post holder will be required to work cross site at RBH and HH, with access to a free shuttle bus. The trust has a strong research identity with other benefits of working at the trust including 10 days of study leave a year and comprehensive In-service training programs.,

• Undertake a high specialist team leader role alongside the physiotherapy clinical specialist in delivering the physiotherapy prehabilitation service to patients undergoing Thoracic Surgery.
• To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients within the speciality who may have highly complex needs, and to determine clinical diagnosis and physiotherapy treatment indicated, maintaining records as an autonomous practitioner.
• To be responsible for the supervision of junior team members within the prehabilitation physiotherapy team.
• To work collaboratively with wider members of the Rehab and Therapies department to provide high quality care for prehabilitation patients.
• To be responsible for the continuing professional development and overall performance of the prehabilitation team.
• To play a significant role in the continuous development of the Trust as a member of the Rehabilitation & Therapies Management team and as a potential member of a range of Trust quality/ process improvement project groups.
• To support co-ordination of daily allocation of workloads within the physiotherapy team.
• To implement a cohesive working relationship with key stakeholders.
• This role will require staff to work in a variety of clinical areas including virtually.
• This role is predominantly based at RBH but the post holder will need to work cross-site as required.
  
  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. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark. We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and - as part of King's Health Partners - we are one of England's eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research's biomedical research centres, established with King's College London in 2007, as
well as dedicated clinical research facilities. We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.