CVR Highly Specialist Exercise Practitioner/Physiotherapist

7 hours ago


Salford, United Kingdom NHS Full time
CVR Highly Specialist Exercise Practitioner/PhysiotherapistNorthern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust

An exciting opportunity has opened for an ambitious, dynamic and enthusiastic Exercise Physiologist /Physiotherapist to join the cardiovascular rehabilitation team.

We are seeking a highly motivated candidate with evidence of working at senior level to join our dynamic and high performing multidisciplinary team.

We are a progressive service and deliver a personalised model of rehabilitation seamlessly across primary and secondary care. We are in the fortunate position to have access to our own gym venue in the community and a site in the acute trust.

You will receive support and guidance from a very experienced, knowledgeable, and motivated multidisciplinary team with plenty of opportunity for personal development.

Main duties of the job

This post requires a motivated and skilled clinician with a broad range of experience in patient assessment and exercise prescription .

The successful candidate will be joining an existing multi-disciplinary team of specialist nurses (including NMP) ,exercise physiologists, physiotherapist ,exercise specialist ,exercise assistants ,dietician ,CVR practitioner counsellor ,assistant practitioner and administrator .

The successful candidate will provide robust clinical leadership ,mentorship, supervision and career development to the existing junior exercise team .This will be achieved through excellent communication skills ,influencing ,motivating and inspiring the team to deliver high quality patient care .

About us

The Northern Care Alliance NHS Foundation Trust (NCA) provides hospital and integrated health and social care services to over one million people living across Greater Manchester. Our 20,000 colleagues care for people in hospital and in the community, working across Bury, Rochdale, Oldham and Salford, to save and improve lives.

As a large NHS trust we are committed to enhancing the health of our local population by delivering consistently high standards of care and working closely with local authorities and key partners. We believe in our power and potential to make a difference and we're always looking for people who demonstrate our three core values - care, appreciate and inspire - to join our team.

In return, we can offer you a job role with purpose and flexibility. The size and scale of the NCA means we can provide more challenge and opportunities so your career can always be moving in the right direction. By joining us you can also access a competitive benefits package, including, a fantastic annual leave allowance, flexible working opportunities and protected hours for health and wellbeing activities, helping you to achieve more personal downtime and a better work-life balance.

Job responsibilities

The post holder will work within the multidisciplinary team flexibly, to provide a high-quality service to CVD patients and their families/carers across Primary and Secondary care in Salford.

To lead in the development, co-ordination, and delivery of comprehensive scientifically based programmes of exercise within CVR with specific emphasis on exercise testing, prescription and training in line with current guidelines.

Provides specialist exercise education and training to other staff and students on all aspects within the field of CVD.

Provides specialist exercise/CVD education and training to patients and their families/carers across Primary and Secondary care.

Undertakes research and leads clinical audit in own specialist area

Accountable for own professional actions, not directly supervised.

Person SpecificationProfessional Registration
  • Current AHCS registration through the register of clinical physiologists (those with current open applications will be considered ) or Current HCPC registration through membership of CSP
  • Current membership of BACPR
  • Current membership of ACPICR
Qualifications
  • Degree in Physiotherapy or closely related discipline
  • Or Masters degree in clinical Exercise Physiology or closely related discipline
  • Or Equivalent portfolio of experience with evidence
  • ACSM certification
  • Bases Sport and Exercise Scientist Accreditation
  • Evidence of on-going CPD qualifications recognised by CIMSPA and/or BACPR
Skills,Knowledge & Experience
  • Experience sufficient enough to satisfy the needs of the post
  • Expereince of supervising staff leading structured and graded exercise programmes for people with cardiovascular and co-morbid conditions
  • Experience of planning and managing complex clinical caseloads
  • Experience of functional exercise testing and the subsequent development of complex programmes of care in a clinical environment with CVD and co-pathologies
  • Ability to supervise less experienced staff and students mentoring, signing off competency frameworks and appraisals
  • Knowledge of and can contribute to the provision of local strategies to reduce CVD and its clinical management using best practice /guidelines/current legislation
  • Demonstrates a clear vision of the role and service
  • Demonstrates excellent effective verbal and written communication /negotiation skills
  • Excellent time management skills ability to manage clinical caseloads with non-clinical priorities and be flexible to meet the needs of the service
  • Ability to lead and implement research ,service evaluation and audit
  • Computer and systems proficient
  • As travel is an essential part of the role you must hold a valid UK driving license and have access to a car to use for business purposes (unless you have a disability as defined by the Equality Act 2010) in line with service needs
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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