Community Respiratory Band 7 Physiotherapist/Nurse
Central And North West London Nhs Foundation Trust
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Job summary
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust is seeking a Band 7 Physiotherapist or Nurse to work in the Camden Home Oxygen Service, delivering specialist assessments, reviews and ongoing management for patients with complex respiratory conditions across the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review pathway (HOSAR).
The role includes education and support to patients, carers and healthcare professionals within a community setting.
Qualifications
- Qualified physiotherapist or nurse registered with HCPC/NMC.
- Experience in respiratory care, COPD and home oxygen pathways.
- Ability to work in a multidisciplinary community setting and support learning.
Responsibilities
- Deliver specialist assessment, review and management for home oxygen patients.
- Contribute to pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry and COPD pathways.
- Provide education and training to patients, carers and healthcare professionals.
- Support service development, quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Skills
Education
Job description
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Camden COPD and Home Oxygen Service as a Band 7 Physiotherapist or Nurse. We are seeking an enthusiastic clinician with experience in respiratory care gained within acute, sub-acute or community settings.
The Camden COPD and Home Oxygen Service is a community-based multidisciplinary team providing specialist respiratory care across a range of pathways, including home oxygen assessment and review, domiciliary COPD management, COPD clinics, pulmonary rehabilitation and community outreach services. The service aims to improve quality of life for people living with chronic respiratory disease, promote safe and effective oxygen use, support self-management, and reduce avoidable hospital admissions through integrated, person-centred care.
The successful candidate will work primarily within the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review (HOSAR) pathway, delivering specialist oxygen assessments, reviews and ongoing management for patients with complex respiratory conditions. The role also includes contributing to the wider respiratory service in line with patient demand and service priorities. Education, training and support of patients, carers and healthcare professionals form an important part of the role.
The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review (HOSAR) pathway, providing specialist assessment, review and management of patients receiving home oxygen therapy. The caseload includes patients with COPD as well as follow-up reviews for patients prescribed oxygen for other conditions, including ILD, paediatric conditions, cluster headaches and palliative care indications. Responsibilities include undertaking oxygen assessments and reviews in clinic and domiciliary settings, performing capillary blood gas sampling and ambulatory oxygen assessments, supporting safe and evidence-based oxygen prescribing, and contributing to service development, quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.
Whilst the majority of clinical time will be spent within the home oxygen pathway, the service works flexibly and all clinicians are expected to develop competencies across the wider respiratory service to support service resilience and meet patient need. Opportunities will therefore exist to contribute to pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry, domiciliary COPD management, COPD clinics and community outreach services.
Applicants should have a broad understanding of respiratory disease, particularly COPD, and experience managing patients with complex respiratory needs. Experience in pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry or home oxygen assessment is desirable but not essential, as training and support will be provided.
The team comprises Respiratory Nurses, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, an Administrator and Respiratory Consultants. There is a strong culture of integrated working between community and secondary care, supported through close collaboration, weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, joint training opportunities and regular clinical support from Respiratory Consultants at the Royal Free Hospital and UCLH.
CNWL provides NHS services across physical health, mental health and community care, delivering high-quality care in hospitals, clinics and people's homes. As a community-based team, we are committed to delivering care closer to home through integrated, coordinated and patient-centred services.
Our team's culture is strongly shaped by the CNWL values and the SCARF principles (Safe, Compassionate, Accountable, Reflective and Fair), which underpin how we work together, support one another and deliver care. We are proud of our humanistic approach and strive to create a compassionate, psychologically safe environment where staff feel valued, respected and empowered to contribute. Kindness, curiosity, collaboration and continuous learning are central to our way of working, and we actively encourage open dialogue, reflection and feedback. We are committed to supporting professional growth and development, with staff encouraged to share knowledge, build expertise and view challenges as opportunities for learning, innovation and service improvement.
We are looking for an excellent communicator who can work autonomously whilst contributing positively to a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be reflective, receptive to feedback and committed to continuous professional development. We value individuals who demonstrate curiosity, compassion and a growth mindset, embrace new challenges and contribute to a culture of learning, service improvement and shared decision-making.
The team is based at Peckwater Health Centre and operates Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. The post holder will also contribute to a pro-rata senior clinician-led telephone advice service between 8:00-9:00am and 5:00-8:00pm.
- Responsibility for the smooth running of the HOSAR pathway on a day to day basis.
- Report to the Clinical Lead and Manager and team as required.
- Oxygen assessment and review in clinic setting and patients home, including capillary blood gas sampling and interpretation.
- Performing all types of oxygen assessments, including ambulatory oxygen assessments.
- Organise and provide service specific in-service training (IST) and training to patients and stakeholders as required.
- Develop and implement Camden HOS-AR protocols.
- Work with all stakeholders to promote safe and effective oxygen prescribing within guidance.
- To communicate and present cases at the weekly team caseload and/or MDTs and support less experienced staff members with this process.
- Collecting, analysing and reporting service data and KPIs.
- To represent Camden at relevant internal and external stakeholder meetings.
- To ensure that high standards of clinical practice and patient care are maintained and to ensure that other clinicians in the team do likewise.
- Supporting the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry, domiciliary COPD management, outreach clinics and other respiratory pathways as required.
- Performing Clinician of the Day duties, including managing acute patient queries, responding to clinical advice requests, and reviewing all clinical referrals and communications received via the team inbox and electronic patient record systems. Responsibilities include triaging and assessing referrals, gathering relevant clinical information from referrers and GP records, determining pathway suitability, providing clinical advice where appropriate, and coordinating the management of urgent clinical issues arising within team clinics, pulmonary rehabilitation sessions and the wider respiratory service.
- BSc Physiotherapy/BSc Nursing (or equivalent)
- HCPC/NMC registered
- Willing to work towards Masters Level - relevant respiratory courses and training already undertaken or planned.
- Relevant professional body membership
- Post graduate clinical courses specific to working with COPD clients
- Non-medical Prescribing Qualification (or willingness to undertake training)
- Working at Masters level (equivalent of) in the management of clients with complex respiratory needs
- Experience of working in a health economy similar to the UK
- Working at Band 6 or above in Respiratory Care (HOSAR, Pulmonary Rehabilitation +/- General COPD/respiratory medicine management)
- Experience of working with other agencies
- Previous experience of delivering training/supervision
- Spirometry and interpretation
- Home oxygen assessment and management
- Experience of ambulatory oxygen assessments
- All round general experience, including: Elderly Care General and Acute Medicine Community
- Knowledge of type 1 and type 2 respiratory failure and interpretation of blood gases
- Knowledge of the criteria for the various types of home oxygen therapy (LTOT, AOT and POT) and an understanding of the risk assessment and guidelines
- Able to undertake an advanced assessment of a respiratory patient, including aspects of physical, mental and social wellbeing
- Evidence of undertaking service development/audit/QI (Demonstrate ability to set up and monitor standards of practice, care pathways and clinical guidelines)
- Intermediate IT skills and experience working with electronic patient records (including presentation skills)
- Demonstrates autonomous clinical decision-making, effective prioritisation and the ability to manage a varied caseload under pressure.
- Experience of delivering holistic, patient-centred assessment and management, including developing and implementing personalised care plans.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with experience of multidisciplinary working, health promotion and supporting behaviour change.
- Following assessment be able to identify key problems and goals and develop and deliver a personalised care plan
- Can undertake a capillary blood gas
- Specialist knowledge of evidence-based assessment (including using COPD outcome measures) and management of clients with COPD
- Evidence of working as an autonomous practitioner in a community setting
- Specialist knowledge of evidence-based rehabilitation of clients with COPD
- Level 2 smoking cessation training / VBA
- Demonstrates excellent organisational skills, including the ability to self-motivate, prioritise workload and work effectively in a dynamic environment.
- Demonstrates reflective practice, openness to feedback and a commitment to continuous learning, professional development and service improvement.
- Promotes a compassionate, inclusive and psychologically safe culture, consistently demonstrating professionalism, integrity and non-discriminatory behaviour.
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Employer name: Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
Address: Peckwater Centre, Peckwater Centre, 6 Peckwater Street, London, NW5 2TX, United Kingdom
Employer's website: https://www.cnwl.nhs.uk/work
For questions about the job, contact: Clinical Lead and Manager, Shaemen Ross, shaemen.ross@nhs.net, 02033175355
28 October 2026
Agenda for change
Band 7
£58,133 to £65,261 a year per annum incl. HCAS
Permanent
Full-time
333-G-CC-1626
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