Employer Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type NHS
Site Clatterbridge Hospital
Town Wirral
Salary £37,338 - £44,962 per annum
Salary period Yearly
Closing 10/04/2025 23:59
Exercise Physiologist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation
Band 6
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Job overview
Wirral Integrated Respiratory Service.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an exercise physiologist with an interest in managing patients with respiratory health problems to join a progressive, award winning multi-disciplinary specialist team.
The successful candidate will have a specialised clinical role within respiratory services which involves assessment and management of patients with different respiratory conditions. Furthermore, the role will involve prescribing exercise for a variety of respiratory conditions.
Main duties of the job
1. Provide delivery of a successful Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme across the Wirral and evaluate good outcomes.
2. Maintaining high standards of practice within the team are fundamental aspects of the post.
3. The role also has the possibility of future collaboration with the Cardiac Rehabilitation Service.
4. Travel across sites within a hospital setting as well as community venues where the programmes are delivered is expected.
Working for our organisation
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see Job overview & attached Job description for further information about the Exercise Physiologist position available with WUTH.
Person specification
Qualifications, Specific Experience & Training
* Minimum of BSc in Exercise Physiology or closely related subject
* Evidence of postgraduate study in relevant subject areas
* Ability to facilitate exercise tolerance testing for diagnostic and prescriptive purposes
* Member of Register of Exercise professionals
* Evidence of leadership qualification
Knowledge and Skills
* Experience of working within a Pulmonary Rehabilitation setting
* Proven experience and ability to facilitating group and individual exercise sessions for different client/patient groups
* Proven ability to facilitate and develop group education sessions
* Extensive exercise physiology based knowledge in relation to respiratory disease
* Experience of managing a complex clinical caseload
* Leadership skills and previous experience of mentoring students and junior staff including clinical supervision
* Excellent IT skills and ability to innovate new ways of working to ensure continued efficiencies within the service
Personal Attributes
* Excellent/advanced communication skills
* Strong leadership skills with demonstrable enthusiasm for driving forward excellence in patient care
* Ability to support management in designing and implementing exercise and education programmes, audit programmes and supporting research activity in relevant field
* Proven commitment to delivering a high quality patient experience
* Ability to assess complex clinical information and structure patient care accordingly
* Ability to work unsupervised within a busy and highly proactive, innovative environment using own initiative when required
* Ability to motivate and enthuse both staff and patients alike throughout the rehabilitation process
Other Requirements
* Be flexible to changing environment within the service including commitment to working across boundaries
* Commitment to working across a wider multidisciplinary team
* Ability to access patients homes and clinics as part of daily role
Apprenticeship Eligibility Criteria
Should this vacancy be recruited as an apprenticeship, the following criteria will apply:
UK nationals or other persons with a right of abode have an eligible residency status if they have been ordinarily resident in the UK or the British Overseas Territories, or the Crown Dependencies (Channel Islands and Isle of Man) for at least the previous 3 years on the first day of the apprenticeship.
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