Highly Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist - Gravesend Community Hospital, Bath Street, GravesendSpecialist Respiratory Physiotherapist – Band 7Location: Dartford, Gravesend & Swanley Community Integrated Neighbourhood TeamsA salary of £43,742 – £50,056 (Band 7, AFC) with group pensionFree tea and coffee at your base locationMembership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on everyday purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to youAccess to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest ratesOnline and face-to-face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post-trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well as career coaching and counsellingAccess to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning EnterpriseAn open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each yearThe pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality CommissionAbout the roleWe are looking for an experienced and motivated Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our Community Respiratory Service. You will play a key role in delivering and developing Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes and providing expert care for patients with long-term respiratory conditions including COPD, Bronchiectasis, Pulmonary Fibrosis and Asthma.This is an exciting opportunity to lead service delivery across the community, working as part of an integrated multidisciplinary team to improve outcomes, reduce admissions, and enhance the quality of life for patients and their carers.What you will be doingLead the planning, delivery and evaluation of Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes in line with national guidance.Undertake advanced assessments and deliver evidence-based treatments across home, community and clinical settings.Support patients and carers in self-management to improve confidence and independence.Work closely with colleagues across primary, secondary and community services to ensure joined-up care.Supervise and mentor junior staff, students and assistants.Drive service audits, quality improvement and clinical governance.What we are looking forHCPC registered Physiotherapist and CSP member.Degree in Physiotherapy (or equivalent) with relevant postgraduate training.Significant post-registration experience in respiratory care and complex case management.Strong clinical reasoning, leadership and mentoring skills.Excellent communication and digital competence.Car driver with access to a vehicle for work purposes.The ideal candidateYou will be a confident and compassionate clinician with a specialist interest in respiratory care. You will thrive in a leadership role, balancing hands-on clinical practice with service development and mentoring. Above all, you will be passionate about improving the lives of people with long-term respiratory conditions.About the CompanyWe change lives by transforming health and care.Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.Finally, we need to let you know that the company you’ll work for is part of HCRG Care Group Holdings Limited and by applying for this job we’ll need to process and hold information about you. If you would like to know a little more about how we use your information, please see our website's privacy policy.