Job overview

This role is for a Senior Specialist Clinician and Team Leader role (Physiotherapist or Nurse) within the North West Ventilation Service (NWVS).  The post holder will work alongside the Consultant Respiratory/ICU Physicians, and Lead Nurse and Lead Physiotherapists. This role involves planning, co-ordinating, delivering and evaluating the services provided to patients referred into this regional tertiary service on a daily basis.  The post holder will manage an independent caseload of patients and deliver a high standard of patient supervision in relation to this area of speciality. The NWVS cares for a wide cohort of patients with non invasive and tracheostomy ventilation.

Main duties of the job

Rotation between NWVU and outreach teams

Possess a high level of skills

interpretation and analysis of clinical/non-clinical/technical data to triage and formulate care plans across a cohort of patients

Teaching, training and supervision of staff/patients/carers.  Formal and informal

Autonomous working in hospital settings and in the community

Clinical responsibility for patient caseloads in a hospital/outreach setting

Clinical support for highly complex patients throughout various procedures/surgeries with pre and post workup and recovery plans

Extended skills in relation to ventilation/tracheostomy

Adherence to guidelines, policies and protocols

Training and performance management of junior staff/performance management and HR managerial duties

Excellent communication skills including the ability to provide highly complex discharge care plans and training schedules

Day to day NWVS/Unit management workload, including the MDT

Audit and research

Training and educational duties

Working for our organisation

MFT is one of the largest NHS Trust In England with a turnover of  over £3bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.

Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 30,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.

 We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research, and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our Electronic Patient Record system which launched in September 2022.

 We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our Green Plan which sets out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.

 At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open, and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.