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Highly Specialist Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Physiotherapist
| Posting date: | 14 March 2025 |
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| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £54,320 - £60,981 p.a. inc HCA |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 13 April 2025 |
| Location: | London, SE1 7EH |
| Company: | Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 7081076/196-LIS9159-A |
Summary
A Vacancy at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust.
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Band 7 Physiotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team in delivering high-quality cardiac rehabilitation services. This role involves providing specialist care to patients recovering from cardiac events, surgery, or with chronic cardiovascular conditions, ensuring optimal physical recovery, improved quality of life, and reduced risk of recurrence.
The successful candidate will play a key leadership role within the cardiac rehabilitation team, offering clinical expertise, supporting service development, and mentoring junior staff members. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across disciplines to provide a holistic, patient-centred approach to rehabilitation.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation team . You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in operational and clinical management in the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Team which is multi-professional, providing care and to optimise outcomes for our patients across Lambeth and Southwark living with cardiovascular conditions. The post is supported by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead and Consultant Physiotherapist, and is a member of the wider Band 7 and 8 respiratory in- and outpatient team.
You will have experience at a senior level including cardiovascular care and evidence of an interest in developing further in this area. An excellent communicator you will demonstrate a desire to work creatively to bring about innovative service development within cardiovascular rehabilitation services and the Physiotherapy profession. A strong commitment to training at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and an interest in quality improvement and research is desirable.
The wider Trust incorporates several leading cardiovascular rehabilitation services with whom we liaise and jointly develop services. You will be expected to contribute to this service development to further the aims of the Trust in delivering exceptional services to cardiovascular patients.
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 are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
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.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation, including those with multi-pathology and those who have highly complex and / or chronic presentations, to determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated and to maintain associated records, as an autonomous practitioner.
To take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists / physiotherapy assistants / students and MDT staff across both sites and the phase IV community based exercise programmes in physio-therapeutic treatment and management of patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation including those requiring complex rehabilitation.
To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area, and to set and monitor standards of practice in both the acute and community settings.
To supervise, initiate and participate in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental research and audit within cardiac rehabilitation.
To oversee and participate in new initiatives within cardiac rehabilitation services (Pilot Heart Failure Programme, Home Rehabilitation and Community Phase III)
To develop and deliver exercise rehabilitation and educational materials in a group based patient setting.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025
We are seeking an experienced and dynamic Band 7 Physiotherapist to join our multidisciplinary team in delivering high-quality cardiac rehabilitation services. This role involves providing specialist care to patients recovering from cardiac events, surgery, or with chronic cardiovascular conditions, ensuring optimal physical recovery, improved quality of life, and reduced risk of recurrence.
The successful candidate will play a key leadership role within the cardiac rehabilitation team, offering clinical expertise, supporting service development, and mentoring junior staff members. You will work collaboratively with colleagues across disciplines to provide a holistic, patient-centred approach to rehabilitation.
An opportunity has arisen for a Band 7 Physiotherapist with proven clinical skills to join the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation team . You will have the opportunity to develop your skills in operational and clinical management in the Cardiovascular Rehabilitation Team which is multi-professional, providing care and to optimise outcomes for our patients across Lambeth and Southwark living with cardiovascular conditions. The post is supported by a Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist, Clinical Lead and Consultant Physiotherapist, and is a member of the wider Band 7 and 8 respiratory in- and outpatient team.
You will have experience at a senior level including cardiovascular care and evidence of an interest in developing further in this area. An excellent communicator you will demonstrate a desire to work creatively to bring about innovative service development within cardiovascular rehabilitation services and the Physiotherapy profession. A strong commitment to training at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and an interest in quality improvement and research is desirable.
The wider Trust incorporates several leading cardiovascular rehabilitation services with whom we liaise and jointly develop services. You will be expected to contribute to this service development to further the aims of the Trust in delivering exceptional services to cardiovascular patients.
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 are working in partnership with King’s Health Partners, to deliver our vision of creating a new centre of excellence, which will be the global leader in the research into and treatment of heart and lung disease, in patients from pre-birth to old age.
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.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
To take a lead role in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation, including those with multi-pathology and those who have highly complex and / or chronic presentations, to determine clinical diagnosis and treatment indicated and to maintain associated records, as an autonomous practitioner.
To take a lead role in supervision and teaching of physiotherapists / physiotherapy assistants / students and MDT staff across both sites and the phase IV community based exercise programmes in physio-therapeutic treatment and management of patients referred for cardiac rehabilitation including those requiring complex rehabilitation.
To provide skilled team leadership and be responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes in own clinical area, and to set and monitor standards of practice in both the acute and community settings.
To supervise, initiate and participate in evidence-based projects, including recommendations for change in practice and to lead in departmental research and audit within cardiac rehabilitation.
To oversee and participate in new initiatives within cardiac rehabilitation services (Pilot Heart Failure Programme, Home Rehabilitation and Community Phase III)
To develop and deliver exercise rehabilitation and educational materials in a group based patient setting.
This advert closes on Sunday 6 Apr 2025