Senior Physiotherapist Respiratory Outpatients/Cardiac Rehabilitation

Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust; Palterton; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A regional healthcare provider in the UK seeks an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join their Respiratory Outpatient & Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. This role includes providing care through individual interventions and educating patients. Candidates should have experience in managing respiratory issues and be prepared to participate in a team-oriented healthcare environment. Location offers great access to natural landscapes and major cities.

Benefits

Support for health and wellbeing

Friendly working environment

Qualifications

• Experience in respiratory physiotherapy is essential.
• Ability to conduct assessments and implement treatment strategies.
• Excellent communication and team working skills.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and class-based physiotherapy interventions.
• Assess dysfunctional breathing and implement re-training strategies.
• Educate patients on managing chronic respiratory diseases.
• Participate in the weekend rota and on-call service.

Skills

Dysfunctional breathing management

Patient education

Team collaboration

Assessment skills

Exercise rehabilitation

Job description

We are looking to recruit an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our Respiratory Outpatient & Cardiac Rehabilitation Service at Chesterfield Royal Hospital. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Physiotherapist to join a friendly and successful team. Together we are proud to deliver the highest standards of clinical quality, patient care and staff experience.

Respiratory referrals are received from Consultants, Specialist Nurses, GP’s, ANP's and other AHP’s. Patients are referred for airway clearance strategies, breathlessness management advice, including working with patients with dysfunctional breathing patterns, and education of patients in managing their long-term conditions.

The Cardiac Rehabilitation Service at Chesterfield Royal Hospital is a Nurse-led Service with Physiotherapy input to the twice weekly Phase III exercise classes.

There is a commitment to participate in the weekend Medical, Surgical and Respiratory rota and the post holder will also be required to participate in the Respiratory On-Call Service.

Interviews will be held in-person only on site at Chesterfield Royal Hospital.

Responsibilities

• Provide individual and class-based interventions both face-to-face and in a virtual setting.
• Undertake assessment of dysfunctional breathing patterns and implement breathing re‑training strategies.
• Educate patients with chronic respiratory diseases on breathlessness management strategies.
• Assess patients who have difficulties with airway clearance and provide suitable education and treatment strategies to assist symptom management and improve underlying condition.
• Identify the need for and complete referrals to other services such as Exercise on Referral, Pulmonary Rehabilitation and IAPT services.
• Complete exercise testing and report results to the referrer.
• Develop and deliver education programmes to patients and the wider Physiotherapy teams.
• Attend Respiratory Multi‑Disciplinary Meetings.
• Develop and deliver the Cardiac Rehabilitation exercise classes in conjunction with the Lead Physiotherapist and Cardiac Rehabilitation nursing team.
• Supervise and educate students and Therapy Support Workers across the wider Medical/Respiratory teams.

Your happiness at work is incredibly important to us, and we are committed to supporting your health and wellbeing. Our proud to CARE values and Leading the Chesterfield Way behaviours are firmly embedded across the Trust, whilst our focus on proudly ‘being you’ supports our hospital to be a great place to work.

The hospital is a friendly District General Hospital on the doorstep of the beautiful Peak District. This post presents a great opportunity to live and work in some of the finest landscape in the country. Major cities such as Sheffield, Leeds, Nottingham and Derby are all within an hour’s train journey, and local airports include East Midlands, Manchester and Leeds Bradford, with London within a couple of hours.

For further details or informal enquiries please contact Gemma Mason – Lead Physiotherapist Respiratory Outpatients & Cardiac Rehabilitation on Tel: [phone].