Highly Specialised Physiotherapist – Acute Heart Failure Unit

st georges nhs trust; Greater London; On-site; GBP 58,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust seeks a Highly Specialised Physiotherapist for the Acute Heart Failure Unit. Based in the Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Team, the role includes joint Cardiothoracic Team Lead duties, providing input across Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Acute Heart Failure, Thoracic Surgery and CTITU while maintaining a specialist caseload.

You will lead, develop and support the physiotherapy team, supervise staff, and contribute to service improvements

Qualifications

• Experience as physiotherapist with a cardiorespiratory background.
• Band 6/7 senior level with leadership responsibilities.
• Ability to provide autonomous, expert clinical care and lead a multidisciplinary team.

Responsibilities

• Provide highly skilled leadership and operational management of the physiotherapy team.
• Lead on policy implementation and service development within cardiothoracic physiotherapy.
• Support professional development and supervise staff in clinical practice and on-call duties.

Skills

Cardiorespiratory

Leadership

Team leadership

Education

Physiotherapist degree

Job description

Highly Specialised Physiotherapist – Acute Heart Failure Unit

A Vacancy at St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The post joins our well-established Cardiorespiratory Physiotherapy Team as Acute Heart Failure Physiotherapist and joint Cardiothoracic Team Lead. The team comprises Cardiothoracic, General ICU and Surgery, and Acute and Respiratory Medicine services. As joint Team Lead, you will share responsibility for leadership and operational management of a physiotherapy team providing input to Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Acute Heart Failure, Thoracic Surgery and CTITU, whilst maintaining a specialist caseload of patients with acute heart failure.

The role will deliver person centred care, comprising comprehensive holistic assessment and treatment of inpatients with acute heart failure, including end of life care.

This post will be of interest to physiotherapists with a cardiorespiratory background who are working at Band 6 or 7 level and wish to progress their career within a supportive specialist multidisciplinary team. The post holder will be supported in their professional development within an experienced and expert team.

This Team Lead role works closely with the Principal Physiotherapist in the advanced assessment and treatment of patients with acute heart failure, including those with highly complex presentations, ensuring accurate clinical reasoning and delivery of holistic, patient-centred care as an autonomous practitioner.

The post holder provides highly skilled team leadership and is jointly responsible for operational management, team development, implementation of policy and policy changes within cardiothoracic physiotherapy team.

The role offers the opportunity to supervise, initiate and participate in evidence‑based projects, including recommendations for change in practice in the clinical areas of Heart Failure and Cardiology.

You will also support the wider Respiratory Physiotherapy weekend and on‑call rota, providing senior clinical support and contributing to the development of staff competence, confidence, and capability in delivering safe and effective on‑call services.

We are a large but close‑knit team that supports one another to deliver the highest standard of care for our patients. We value compassion, innovation, motivation and teamwork, and actively encourage professional development, collaborative working and service improvement.

St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is the regional specialist care provider for south west London, Surrey and beyond. The trust provides a high quality, comprehensive range of health services from leading edge tertiary and trauma care to community services.

With national and regional referrals added to our local 3.5m catchment, we serve a population of around 5m.

Co‑located with St George’s, University of London and with both organisations now in a formal strategic alliance with King’s Health Partners, the trust delivers with its partners high quality research and education both of which contribute to the healthcare provision of tomorrow.

Acute and tertiary health services are delivered from over 1,000 beds across two sites, by around 8,000 staff.

St George's Hospital is a major acute hospital that offers very specialist care for complex injuries and illnesses, including trauma, neurology, cardiac care, renal transplantation, cancer care and stroke.

This advert closes on Tuesday 6 Oct 2026

£58,133 - £65,261 pa. pro-rata inclusive of HCAS (20%)