Cardiac Specialist

**Cardiac Specialist -Physio/Exercise Physio/Instructor (Developmental)**:
**Band 5 to 6**:
**Main area**
- Cardiac Rehabilitation
- **Grade**
- Band 5 to 6
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Job share
- Flexible working

37.5 hours per week (5 days per week)
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-434-C**Site**
- St Austell
- **Town**
- St Austell
- **Salary**
- £28,407 - £42,618 Pro Rata, per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 27/06/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

**We pride ourselves in striving to be an employer of choice.**

**_ Strategic Themes_**

**_ Great Care_**
- _Care based on what matters to people. _
- _Care provided at home or close to home. _
- _Improvement through learning, research and innovation. _
- _Prevention and alternatives to hospital._

**_Great Organisation_**
- _Buildings that support health and wellbeing. _
- _Technology enabled care. _
- _Care teams are supported by responsive corporate services. _
- _Safe, efficient, effective and productive._

**_Great People_**
- _A place people love to work and feel valued. _
- _Living our values with staff (all voices count). _
- _Attract, grow and develop talent. _
- _Leaders with compassion, who continuously learn and listen._

**_Great Partner_**
- _Encourage and enable effective partnerships. _
- _Joined-up community services. _
- _Work with others to maximise workforce opportunities. _
- _Reduce our impact on the environment._
- _At the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us and for our patients, and for you. Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement whether that’s job share, part time or another flexible pattern. In addition, although the role advertised may have a ‘home’ office base indicated, we remain committed to supporting flexibility around workplace locations. If it works for the service, we will do our best to make it work for you.

**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
**Cardiac Specialist - (Developmental) Physiotherapist, Exercise Physiologist/Instructor**

An exciting position has arisen in Mid Cornwall for an enthusiastic and motivated Cardiac Rehabilitation Physiotherapist Specialist or Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Specialist.

These are developmental roles, following the completion of the British Association Of Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation Competencies.

This post holder will be required to deliver formal cardiac rehabilitation exercise and lifestyle programmes in a variety of community settings and modes of delivery to all risk stratifications of patients with cardiac diagnoses and co-morbidities.

37.5 hours per week. Hours negotiable. Flexible working.

Access to a vehicle is essential for the post.

**Main duties of the job**:
For a small cohort of patients, you will have the opportunity to deliver cardiac rehabilitation on a one-to-one basis in patients’ homes and clinic settings.

You will deliver and develop high quality cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions through formal cardiac rehabilitation exercise classes, home-based, online classes and clinic-based exercise programmes, working in a variety of settings including community hospitals, leisure centres and other community venues and patients’ homes.

Also delivering cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes in collaboration with the multidisciplinary community cardiac team.

As an autonomous practitioner hold responsibility for a given caseload of patients within a defined area of the community cardiac service.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter to us. As part of the team, you'll help support the health and wellbeing of the people who live and visit this beautiful part of the UK.

Over 4,000 people make up the Trust. This includes doctors, nurses, therapists, plus admin and support staff.

We work in people's homes, in community clinics, leisure centres and bases. Some staff work from one of our 13 community hospitals. Our aspiration is to have great people, provide great care, be a great pl