Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist - Cardio Respiratory

We are recruiting a Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapist to join our friendly multidisciplinary team of Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, and Therapy Assistants. The service provides high-quality respiratory and acute care across the hospital, delivering assessments, treatment, and rehabilitation for patients with complex cardiorespiratory needs. This includes early mobilisation, safe clinical management, and supporting effective patient flow. You will complete timely assessments to aid discharge and provide targeted inpatient interventions to support recovery and reduce length of stay.

You will work autonomously with analytical and clinical reasoning skills, able to interpret assessments, identify respiratory problems, set goals, and deliver evidence-based treatment plans. Candidates must demonstrate confident decision-making in cardiopulmonary practice. Experience in acute hospital settings, particularly respiratory or critical care, is desirable, alongside knowledge of respiratory pathways, escalation processes, acute deterioration, and physiotherapy's role in preventing complications.

Excellent communication, effective time management, and the ability to manage a busy caseload are essential. The role also offers opportunities for multidisciplinary working with medical, nursing, and allied health colleagues across acute medicine, critical care, and wider hospital services.

As a Clinical Specialist Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapist, you will provide a high-standard, comprehensive physiotherapy assessment and treatment service for patients with a wide range of acute and chronic respiratory and cardiac conditions across acute care areas within the Trust.

You will work as an autonomous clinician, applying advanced analytical skills and clinical reasoning to interpret complex assessment findings, formulate appropriate diagnoses, identify patient problems, set achievable goals, and deliver evidence-based treatment plans and progression. This will include management of acute respiratory deterioration, airway clearance techniques, exercise tolerance assessment, early rehabilitation, and optimisation of cardiorespiratory function.

You will be an active member of a 6-day working service and, following completion and maintenance of on-call competencies, you will work unsupervised within the Trust's emergency on-call and out-of-hours respiratory physiotherapy service, providing urgent assessment and intervention for patients requiring immediate respiratory support.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (MCHFT) provides good quality, safe and effective healthcare to the people of Cheshire and beyond.

The Trust, which manages Leighton Hospital in Crewe, Victoria Infirmary in Northwich, and Elmhurst Intermediate Care Centre in Winsford, was established as an NHS Trust in April 1991 and became a Foundation Trust in April 2008.

We employ almost 5,000 members of staff, provide around 540 hospital beds, with a range of services including accident and emergency, maternity, outpatients, therapies, and children's health.

The Trust is also part of Central Cheshire Integrated Care Partnership (CCICP), a unique local health partnership that provides a range of community services for people across South Cheshire and Vale Royal.

During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Trust was recognised nationally for its Be Safe Be EquiPPEd campaign, which aimed to make the Trust as safe as possible for staff and patients, through supporting the correct use of PPE.

The results in the 2020 national NHS Staff Survey showed improvements in all elements of the safety culture theme, with 92% of respondents feeling their role made a difference to our patients. We were also recognised nationally for our workforce health and wellbeing initiatives.

At Mid Cheshire, we value our staff and appreciate that in order to give our patients the best quality, compassionate care, we also need to look after our colleagues.

Please see the Job Description and Person Specification for more specific details regarding the job.

• Significant post-graduate experience working in acute hospital settings.
• Experience delivering advanced respiratory interventions
• Experience in managing a wide range of acute and chronic respiratory conditions
• Clinical Supervisor experience

• Post grad training relevant to role
• Advanced communication Skills
• Evidence of contribution to quality and safety

• Assessment and treatment planning knowledge of complex respiratory patients within acute setting
• Member of Special Interest Group

• Experience contributing to safe discharge planning and understanding of respiratory-specific pathways.
• Experience working within a multidisciplinary team and contributing to shared decision-making.
• Evidence of post qualification training in the relevant area

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.

Mid Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust