ECMO and Critical Care Team Lead Physiotherapist | Bristol NHS Foundation Trust

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This is an exciting opportunity to join a friendly, supportive and forward-thinking Critical Care and ECMO Therapy team within a large inner-city Intensive Care service, providing highly specialist care to patients from across the Southwest of England. 

The Critical Care unit at City Hospital Operating unit if a regional specialist centre for Severe Acute Respiratory Failure, Cardiac surgery, Upper GI surgery, Hepatobillary surgery, Thoracic surgery and ENT & Max-Fax.

As an ECMO Lead Physiotherapist, you will provide clinical leadership and specialist expertise within our highly collaborative multidisciplinary ECMO and Critical Care team, supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based respiratory and rehabilitative care to patients with complex and life-threatening illness. Working closely with colleagues across the multidisciplinary team, you will contribute to the assessment, treatment and ongoing management of patients requiring advanced organ support.

 

We are a research-active service with a strong commitment to education, innovation and continuous improvement, and our ambition is to provide leading specialist ECMO and critical care therapy within the UK. The role offers excellent opportunities for clinical leadership, education, research and service development, making this an ideal opportunity for an experienced critical care physiotherapist looking to develop their specialist practice and contribute to the continued development of ECMO and critical care therapy.

Bristol NHS Foundation Trust brings together more than 28,000 staff to deliver over 160 clinical services across thirteen hospital locations, operating from three main sites at Southmead, Bristol city centre and Weston.  

With an annual turnover of £2.3 billion, we are now one of the largest NHS trusts in the United Kingdom. Our hospitals are spread across Bristol and Weston, join us and you can enjoy the very best of both worlds; city living within a stone’s throw of the countryside or beside the seaside, both with easy access to all that the South West has to offer.  

 Bristol NHS Foundation Trust values all people as individuals. As an equal opportunities employer actively working towards a diverse workforce we aim to recruit and retain a workforce which represents the rich diversity of the local population at all levels and are committed to designing our services around the needs of individual patients and those around them. Anonymous information will be used from your application in order to ensure we’re meeting our pledge. 

Please see the attached job description and person specification for a more detailed breakdown of the different elements of the role

We hope that you will decide to join us and become part of this exciting journey, helping us to shape our future together

This advert closes on Thursday 29 Oct 2026