Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Worker

NHS; Elswick; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 27,000; Full time

Job summary

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Community Cardiac Rehabilitation worker (Band 3) to support home-based exercise programmes for patients post-MI, PCI, cardiac surgery and heart failure. You will visit patients in their homes, assist with prescribed programmes, and work alongside a Band 7 physiotherapist.

The role requires car ownership with business insurance, and clinical supervision will be provided.

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Level 3 Exercise to Music qualification
• BACPR Completion of a Trust or other HCA development programme

Responsibilities

• Assist Registered Nurses or Physiotherapists in providing high quality patient care within the community setting and in patients' homes
• Check baseline observations and assist with prescribed exercise plans
• Cover cardiac rehabilitation centre group classes in the absence of the fitness instructor
• Work with a physiotherapist and nursing staff to deliver home and community exercise programmes

Skills

Car driver

Basic IT skills

Patient care

Communication

Education

NVQ Level 3 or equivalent

Job description

Main area 317 Adult Medicine Cardiac Rehabilitation (Community) Grade Band 3 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 08:30-16:30 (30 min break)) Job ref 317-2026-44-17-DR

Site Arthurs Hill Clinic Town 317 Arthurs Hill Clinic Salary £25,760 - £27,476 per annum Salary period Yearly Closing 16/11/2026 23:59 Interview date 03/12/2026

Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is one of the busiest and largest NHS hospital trusts in the country. We have around 16,000 staff and an annual budget of £1.7 billion.

With strong history of providing high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation regionally, nationally and internationally, w e’re in the top five providers of specialised health services in the country.

As well as providing a wide range of hospital and community services, we support people with a range of rare and complex medical, surgical and neurological conditions, cancers and genetic orders.

We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and recognise the benefit in providing an inclusive environment. We value and respect the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects the communities we serve, and is equipped to deliver the best service to our patients. We welcome all applications irrespective of people’s race, disability, sex, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity and in particular those from under- represented groups.

Newcastle Hospitals are proud to be one of the exemplar organisations across the NHS on sustainability, with a long history of delivering Sustainable Healthcare in Newcastle and the first healthcare organisation in the world to declare a climate emergency. Our strategy includes commitments to being Net Zero by 2030, for our direct carbon footprint, and Net Zero by 2040 for our footprint plus. Delivering these ambitions will not be possible without the help, support and action of every single member of our team.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Community Cardiac Rehabilitation worker to join our motivated, enthusiastic Community Cardiology team working in the home exercise programme.

The post involves visiting patients in their own homes to facilitate individualised exercise programmes for patients post Myocardial Infarction, PCI, cardiac surgery and for patients with heart failure. An exercise programme is prescribed by our Band 7 physiotherapist; the successful candidate will support, motivate and deliver this programme.

Clinical supervision and support will be provided to the post holder.

Applicants must be a car driver with full use of their own car and will require business insurance .

• Interview Date Thursday 03 December 2026
• 37 hours 30 minutes /week

Main duties of the job

• To assist the Registered Nurses and Physiotherapists and work autonomously in providing high quality patient care within the Community Setting.
• Checking baseline observations, signs and symptoms prior to delivering the prescribed, individualised exercise plan and set goals.
• The job includes covering cardiac rehabilitation phase 3 group work at four Centres across the City alongside a Cardiology Specialist Nurse as required.
• Car Driver is essential.
• Ongoing support, clinical supervision and the relevant training will be provided

Working for our organisation

As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

With around 2 million contacts with patients every year, we deliver care from:

• Northern Centre for Cancer Care, North Cumbria

These include a range of flagship services which deliver cutting-edge care (supported by state-of-the-art diagnostic services in both radiology and pathology) and are a catalyst for innovation to support pioneering clinical practice in the NHS.

We also have offices at Regent Point in Gosforth and community sites.

Please see attached information on what Staff Benefits we have to offer at our Trust under ‘Documents to download’ or ‘Supporting documents’.

For further information on The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust please visit: Careers | Newcastle Hospitals | NHS | Newcastle Hospitals and Newcastle Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To abide by Trust policies and procedures
• To assist the Registered Nurses or other registered health care practitioners in providing high quality patient care within a community setting and in patients own homes
• Maintain patients privacy and dignity at all times
• Be an effective part of the multi-disciplinary team contributing to the departmental objectives
• Continue to develop and maintain competencies in nursing tasks to maintain high quality safe care
• To work with a physiotherapist and nursing staff to deliver exercise programmes in the patients home and community venues
• To provide cover for the cardiac rehabilitation centre group classes in the absence of the band 4 fitness instructor.

Person specification

KNOWLEDGE

• Ability to maintain and improve knowledge, skills and competence to ensure high standards of patient care.
• Ability to carry out routine elements of assessment to enhance the patient / client journey, following an initial assessment by a registered practitioner
• Ability to meet basic care needs of patients
• Understanding of confidentiality
• Understanding of basic safeguarding

SKILLS

• Basic IT skills
• Ability to be responsible for own development, identifying training needs, set personal objectives and attend appropriate training as agreed by line manager.
• Ability to initiate emergency action when required e.g. Cardiac arrest, Fire.
• Competent in blood pressure monitoring

EXPERIENCE

• Ability to plan, prioritise own and delegated work tasks and activities.
• Previous experience / consolidation of practice as a HCA (evidence of knowledge attained at level 3 using the Qualifications and Credit Framework)
• Previous experience within speciality

QUALIFICATIONS

• NVQ Level 3 in appropriate subject (or on pathway) or equivalent qualification / experience
• Good literacy and numeracy skills
• Level 3 Exercise to Music qualification
• BACPR Completion of a Trust or other HCA development programme

Whilst Newcastle Hospitals are a forward thinking and highly innovative organisation, the use of Third-Party Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk to the integrity of our Recruitment & Selection processes. If you use AI, and it poses a risk to the integrity of your individual application or to the recruitment process, we may withdraw your application at any stage of the process.

Important note on completion of reference section of Application Form

All references from current and previous employers will be sought and must cover a minimum of 3 years employment. Therefore, when completing the reference section of your application form, please give the address, telephone number and work email address of each of your current/previous line managers that cover 3 years employment. Failure to complete this section may result in your application not being processed.

Please note it is a requirement of The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust that all successful candidates who require a DBS for the post they have been offered pay for their DBS certificate. The method of payment is a salary deduction from your first month’s pay.

Candidates who are shortlisted for interview will be contacted by e-mail. You should check your SPAM folders as well as your inbox. If you have not been contacted within 4 weeks of the closing date you should assume your application has been unsuccessful.

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Name Lisa Lewis Job title Community Cardiology Specialist Nurse Email address [e-mail] Telephone number 01912826401 Additional information

Lisa Lewis - Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 08:30-08:30pm

Sandra Cummins - Thursdays and Fridays, 08:30-16:30pm