Senior Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Physiologist | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 27 Awst 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £38,682 - £46,580 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 26 Medi 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Bedford, MK42 9DJ |
| Cwmni: | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Parhaol |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7427089/418-DTO7089-CW |
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Due to the current post holder re-locating, a rare and exciting opportunity has arisen fora highly motivated Exercise Physiologist with a passion for cardiac rehabilitation to join a ‘NACR Green’ accredited cardiac rehabilitation service.
Within a multi-disciplinary team, you will be responsible for the planning, implementation and auditing of high quality, comprehensive and effective phase 2 and phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes for patients following an MI, angina treated with PCI, heart failure, post-cardiac bypass or valve surgery. This can be through formal face-to-face, a telephone-led, home-based or virtual cardiac rehab programme or via a hybrid approach.
This will include patient functional capacity, muscular strength and mobility assessments, leading individual and group exercise and education sessions, modifying individual exercise programmes for co-morbidities and physical limitations and counselling as appropriate.
You will also be responsible for a Band 5 exercise physiologist and this role will require all aspects of the management of this member of staff including yearly appraisals, sickness reviews and performance management and for supervising and mentoring them through their career development.
Candidates must have experience of using the NACR database, especially inputting on the national system and audit of local databases for performance statistics.
(*This post is for an Exercise Physiologist and not a Physiotherapist)
To assist in the planning, implementation and auditing of high quality, comprehensive and effective phase 2 and phase 3 cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes for patients following anMI, angina treated with PCI, heart failure, post-cardiac bypass or valve surgery . This can be through formal face-to-face, a telephone-led, home-based or virtual cardiac rehab programmes or via a hybrid approach.This will include patient functional capacity, muscular strength and mobility assessments, leading individual and group exercise and education sessions, modifying individual exercise programmes for co-morbidities and physical limitations and counselling as appropriate.
Supervise and lead exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation sessions in line with current ACPICR & BACPR guidelines. Liaise with other members of the cardiac rehab nursing team and cardiac rehabilitation exercise physiologists to ensure ongoing development in line with NACR.
Provide specialist advice regarding exercise to other health professionals
Formulate, risk stratify and deliver individual and group exercise plans, programmes and recommendations for patients based on highly developed specialist knowledge, clinical assessments and reasoning skills utilising evidence based practice.
Critically appraise areas of clinical practice to be improved and act with colleagues to implement improvements.
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.
Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.
· Deliver, develop and maintain safe and effective group exercise sessions for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions in line with BACPR, ACPICR and NICE MI secondary prevention guidelines.
· Supervise and lead exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation sessions in line with current ACPICR & BACPR guidelines. Liaise with other members of the cardiac rehab nursing team and cardiac rehabilitation exercise physiologists to ensure ongoing development in line with NACR.
· To be responsible for the development and monitoring of specialist prescriptive exercise regimes throughout the cardiac rehabilitation programme.
· Adopt a flexible and dynamic approach to patient care and service planning and development.
· Formulate, risk stratify and deliver individual and group exercise plans, programmes and recommendations for patients based on highly developed specialist knowledge, clinical assessments and reasoning skills utilising evidence based practice.
· Provide leadership for, deliver and develop high quality cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes. Amongst others, these will include a high intensity circuit based cardio vascular exercise programme and a chair based exercise programme providing low intensity functional exercise.
Please refer to the attached Job Description.
This advert closes on Tuesday 2 Sep 2025