Specialist Physiotherapist/ Specialist Respiratory Nurse
At a glance
- Band
- Band 7
- Contract
- Permanent
- Pattern
- Full-time, Part-time, Compressed hours
- Hours / week
- 37.5
- Posted
- 17/09/2026
- Closes
- 30/09/2026
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Role summary
This is an exciting opportunity for a specialist physiotherapist or respiratory nurse to join the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team at Bromley Healthcare. The role involves both clinical and non-clinical responsibilities, including triage, assessment, and treatment of service users, as well as supervising junior staff and leading accreditation efforts. The successful candidate will contribute to the service's goal of achieving national accreditation through the PRSAS scheme. This position offers a chance to develop managerial and leadership skills within a supportive environment.
Key responsibilities
- To undertake full respiratory assessments and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programmes for patients.
- Devising rehabilitation programmes using the most up to date available evidence and guidance.
- To formulate and evaluate individualised management and / or treatment plans, utilising a wide range of treatment skills.
- To continue to work towards National Accreditation of the service alongside the service lead.
- To lead the use of evidence-based practice in service delivery and ensure there is an infrastructure to support this.
- Be proactive in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant local and national policy and evidence.
Essential criteria
- Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy/ Nursing
- Current registration with HCPC/ NMC
- Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Significant evidence of post graduate training and work experience relevant to specialist adult community rehabilitation
- Excellent assessment skills
- Knowledge of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the clinical health benefits associated.
- Able to motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive or physical ability
- Knowledge of Pulmonary Rehabilitation national guidance.
- Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently
- Good time management and organisational skills
- Well developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal
- Car driver with valid license for UK and access to vehicle for work purposes
- Experience of managing a range of respiratory conditions in the community setting, including the use of oropharyneal and tracheal suction.
- Significant experience of managing junior staff including students
- Participation in service improvement/ audits within a service to drive change.
- Some experience of co-ordinating and delivering In-service training.
- Post graduate experience relavant to the service
- Experience working in the community
- Proven experience assessing patients in a wide range of settings
- Demonstratable experience of managing own caseload and delegation
- Demonstratable experience writing and implementing care plans
- Significant experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Ability to respond positively to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions in response to An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders. Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care. Interview urgent clinical situations eg. Patients voicing suicidal concerns
- Assertive, credible and proactive with good problem solving skills and proactive 'can do' attitude
- Knowledge of our buisness
- Committed to our Values and Behaviours
- Flexible approach to meeting service and client needs
- Ability to remain calm and professional with patients who may be physically or emotionally distressed
- Ability to demonstrate empathy
- Self-motivated and keen to learn and develop new skills for self and team
- Willingness to develop clinical and assessment skills into new areas
- Enthusiastic about working in a multiprofessional team
- Passionate about providing high quality, person centred health and social care in the community
- Sound IT skills including word processing and data analysis such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- Be aware of and adhere to Information Governance responsibilities relevant to your role
Desirable criteria
- Post-Graduate Msc in relevant field.
- Member of CSP
- Member of specialist interest group
- Practice Educator training
- Leadership training
- Evidence of Study at MSc Level
- Skilled negotiator and communicator in a range of environments and across complex teams
- Complaints handling
- Experience of working to KPIs and service targets
- Use of electronic patient record systems
- Experience of writing and implementing policy and procedures
- Experience of measuring and monitoring own and others performance
- Experience working in the acute sector
- Experience working in a team where roles and tasks are shared across professional working boundaries
- An understanding of multi professional careplanning
- Experience of measuring and monitoring clinical practice
- Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care.
- An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders.
- Experience using Electronic Record Systems including EMIS or EPIC
Useful to know
Agenda for Change 2024/25 pays Band 7 at £46,148 – £52,809 a year, across England.
This advert: £55,524 – £62,652 — outside the standard scale; check for HCAS/London weighting.
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Bromley Healthcare CIC
Specialist Physiotherapist/ Specialist Respiratory Nurse
The closing date is 30 September 2026
Job summary
Specialist Physiotherapist/ Specialist Respiratory Nurse
Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum pro rata inclusive of Hcas
Perm - 37.5 hrs per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a specialist physiotherapist/ respiratory nurse to join the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team at Bromley Healthcare. The service is currently working towards national accreditation through the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service Accreditation Scheme (PRSAS) and is a great opportunity for an individual to further their managerial and leadership skills. This role is a mixture of clinical and non-clinical responsibilities. Clinical responsibilities include the triage, assessment, and treatment of service users for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Non-clinical duties include the supervision of junior members of staff and students, taking a lead role in the accreditation through report writing and data manipulation, and facilitating ongoing training to the team.
Interviews to be held week commencing 12th October 2026
Main duties of the job
- To undertake full respiratory assessments and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programmes for patients appropriately using clinical reasoning and a variety of highly specialised skil
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