Job overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts. We are looking for a Band 6 exercise physiologist who is ready for new challenges or an experienced Band 5 who is seeking promotional opportunities to join our Prehabilitation team.
The successful post holder will hold a key role in the on-going development and running of a multidisciplinary prehabilitation service. The post-holder will support the team leads to deliver a trust-wide service that will not only reduce complications from hospital treatment but aim to improve patients’ long-term health as they adopt lifestyle changes. The post-holder will also work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary teams across sites including anaesthetists, surgeons, Oncologists, Clinical Nurse Specialists and wider therapy teams.
The successful candidate should be a dedicated, skilled and motivated clinician with a breadth of experience in exercise prescription across a range of chronic health conditions. At Bart’s our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation; providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in East London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of care and being an outstanding place to work. For this reason, we recognise the importance of personal and professional development and that it is crucial to the success of our service.
Main duties of the job
This a new post within an established Prehabilitation team, working as an MDT service including physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetics, as well as more junior clinical exercise physiologists. It is an ideal opportunity for an experienced clinical exercise physiologist looking to develop clinical and leadership skills
They will be responsible for supporting and developing this innovative service across Barts Health. The post-holder will be expected to:
·To identify appropriate patients to enrol in the service and engage key stakeholders in the both the service and referral process
·To complete holistic pre-treatment assessments for complex patients and liaise with the other members of the prehabilitation team, the referring team and wider appropriate clinical teams to ensure patients are optimised for treatment
·Provide personalised, evidence-based, high quality exercise intervention and appropriate nutritional/psychological input following comprehensive risk assessment
·To utilise cardioplulmonary exercise testing to further clinically reason fitness for potential treatment and confidently relay results to the wider MDT when making decisions regarding patient care
·Use motivational interviewing and health-coaching techniques to support complex patients in goal setting, identify and overcome barriers and help people in making long-term health and lifestyle changes
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment/s below.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. BSc in Physiology/Sports Science or equivalent.
2. Member of the Register of Exercise Professionals (REP), or other associated body (BASES,BACR).
3. Intermediate Life Support Skills.
Desirable criteria
4. Training in motivational interviewing and/or health coaching.
5. Member of special interest groups.
6. POETTS CPET course
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of delivering high-quality, evidence based exercise intervention to a co-morbid patient group with complex long-term conditions.
8. Ability to discuss basic nutritional advice and deliver basic psychological support techniques / advice.
9. Experience using Motivational Interviewing in people with long term conditions.
10. Clinical experience of working with cardiac/cancer/multi-comorbid patients
Desirable criteria
11. Experience in analysing data and utilising scientific writing skills to disseminate results e.g. poster writing for conferences.
12. Previous experience working at a band 6 or equivalent level.
13. Previous experience working in a Prehabilitation setting.
14. Experience of supporting clinical education of students.
15. Experience of working with people who have musculoskeletal conditions and/or pelvic health dysfunction
Skills
Essential criteria
16. Excellent time management skills – ability to manage clinical caseload with non-clinical priorities.
17. Ability to assess and interpret clinical information and adapt intervention dependent on this.
18. Ability to work flexibly and adapt when needed.
19. Enthusiastic and able to take initiative in service development and data collection.
Desirable criteria
20. Completion of student educator course
21. Previous experience of cardiopulmonary exercise testing.