University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
An exciting opportunity has arisen for an Exercise Physiologist to join our friendly, passionate, and nationally accredited multi-disciplinary Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills are essential.
This post is fulltime and is a substantive post. The post holder will be multi-site based within University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, including working at the Centre for Exercise and Health (Coventry community cardiac rehab venue) and St Cross Hospital, Rugby.
This role requires the post-holder to assist in the delivery of the multi-morbidity clinical rehabilitation services in Coventry and Rugby. The post-holder will have a clinical caseload within the cardiac rehabilitation team and assist and support the clinical rehabilitation team in delivering new and innovative clinical services into clinical practice.
Please be advised there is a proposed interview date of Wednesday 22nd January 2025
Main duties of the job
* A skilled and knowledgeable practitioner in exercise science applied to a range of long-term conditions and morbidities including cardiovascular, metabolic, respiratory and cancer.
* Accountable for own actions in accordance with the REPS and NHS Code of conduct.
* Assist in the management and day-to-day running of the community and hospital multi-morbidity rehabilitation programme.
* Participate in the development of quality initiatives, including standards of the multi-morbidity rehabilitation programme, patient care, clinical audit, monitoring of service provision and clinical research.
Closing Date: Please be advised that this job advert will close as soon as sufficient applications have been received. Please apply for this job as soon as you can, if interested.
Job responsibilities
* Ability to undertake a clinical assessment (as an autonomous specialist) of patients with long-term conditions, including those with complex presentation, investigate, analyse & formulate individualised management & treatment plans to formulate specialised programmes of care.
* To identify and respond appropriately to additional long-term conditions and/or co-morbidities and the potential effect these may have on physical activity and lifestyle advice. Use this information appropriately prior to advising, planning or implementing physical activity and lifestyle treatment plans.
* Accept clinical responsibility for own caseload & organise this effectively & efficiently with regard to the clinical progress of the patient.
* Maintain immediate life support and defibrillation training ILS.
* Collaborate with long-term condition specialists and all members of the multidisciplinary team in the primary and secondary health care settings to ensure patients are receiving the highest quality of care.
* Ensure patient information is collated, monitored and fully accurate maintaining complete records in line with Trust standards.
* Promote the involvement and engagement of patients, members and carers/relatives in the assessment, delivery and evaluation of care.
* Maintain and develop clinical expertise by attendance and participation in regular post-registration education as identified by PDPs i.e. BACPR/BASES study days or conferences and in-service training, participating in mentorship and appraisal as required.
For further details of the role please see the attached job description.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
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.
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