Senior Physiotherapist Respiratory Outpatients/Cardiac Rehabilitation
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
The closing date is 02 November 2025
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.
Main duties of the job
- Provide individual and class-based interventions both face-to-face and in a virtual setting.
- Undertake assessment of dysfunctional breathing patterns, and implementing breathing re-training strategies.
- Educating patients with chronic respiratory diseases on breathlessness management strategies.
- Assessing patients who have difficulties with airway clearance. Providing suitable education and treatment strategies to assist the management of symptoms and improve management of the underlying condition.
- Identifying the need for and completing referrals to other services such as Exercise on Referral, Pulmonary Rehabilitation, IAPT services.
- Completing exercise testing and reporting results to the referrer.
- Developing and delivering education programmes to patients and the wider Physiotherapy teams.
- Attending Respiratory Multi-Disciplinary Meetings.
- To develop and deliver the Cardiac Rehabilitation exercise classes in conjunction with the Lead Physiotherapist and Cardiac Rehabilitation nursing team.
- Supervision and education of students and Therapy Support Workers across the wider Medical/Respiratory teams.
- 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.
About us
Your happiness at work is incredibly important to us, and hence, 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.
There are excellent schools in the local area, only a few minutes from the hospital, as well as nursery childcare on-site.
Job responsibilities
The successful applicant will have post registration experience of respiratory care, which should include experience of working on an Acute Medical or Surgical ward or in a Critical Care setting. You will be confident in the assessment and treatment of patients with complex needs and in working as part of the multidisciplinary team. You will have excellent communication skills and have the confidence to lead group sessions, both face-to-face and virtually. You will be committed to providing consistent, high standard patient care, with compassion, dignity and respect; putting patients at the centre of all you do.
Person Specification
Qualifications & Training
- Qualification in Physiotherapy at degree level.
- HCPC registered.
- Completion of Clinical Educator's course.
- Relevant Respiratory Post-Graduate courses.
Experience
- Experience of working within Respiratory care including experience of working on an Acute Medical or Surgical Ward or in a Critical Care setting.
- Experience of managing a caseload with complex needs.
- Experience in treating patients with breathing pattern disorders.
- Experience of delivering education and treatment interventions in group and virtual settings.
- Experience of managing patients with long-term respiratory conditions.
Skills & knowledge
- Developed specialist knowledge and clinical reasoning in the management of medical, surgical and respiratory conditions.
- Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Time management and prioritisation skills.
- Experience of participation in data collection, audit and service development.
Personal attributes
- Interest in the management of chronic lung conditions.
- Demonstrates reason for interest in this specific role.
- Adaptable to the needs of the service.
Demonstrates our Proud to CARE Value
- Compassion, Ambition, Respect, Encouragement.
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.
Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
£38,682 to £46,580 a year pro rata
