Job overview
Senior Exercise Physiologist
Prehabilitation is here to stay at Barts Health NHS Trust!
An exciting opportunity has arisen to work at one of the UK’s largest NHS Trusts. We are looking for exercise physiologists who are ready for new challenges and seeking opportunities to join our prehabilitation team.
We are pleased to be expanding our well-established team to continue providing a trust wide prehabilitation service. The successful post holders will hold a key role in the on-going development and running of a multidisciplinary prehabilitation service. The post-holders will work to deliver a trust-wide service that will not only reduce complications from hospital treatment but aim to improve patients’ long-term health as they adopt lifestyle changes. The post-holders will also work closely with the wider multi-disciplinary teams including attending a novel hepato-pancreato-biliary cancer clinic with surgeons, clinical nurse specialists and anaesthetists.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate should be a dedicated, skilled and motivated clinician with a breadth of experience in exercise prescription across a range of chronic health conditions. At Bart’s our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation; providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in East London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of care and being an outstanding place to work. For this reason, we recognise the importance of personal and professional development and that it is crucial to the success of our service. We therefore offer a robust teaching and training programme with the opportunity to complete Quality Improvement and Audit projects and we provide a supportive and engaging environment to develop and grow our clinicians.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
The full job description provides an overview of the key tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specification outlines the qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge required. For both documents, please view the attachment.
We are dedicated to being an outstanding place to work and will work with you to get the best experience. We know flexible working is not a one size fits all and will mean something different to everyone. We are inclusive, so if you are interested in flexible working, please speak to the recruiting manager
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
1. BSc in Physiology/Sports Science or equivalent.
Desirable criteria
2. Member of the Register of Exercise Professionals (REP), or other associated body (BASES,BACR).
3. Training in motivational interviewing and/or health coaching.
4. Cancer rehabilitation qualification
5. MSc Clinical Exercise Physiologist or equivalent
6. Intermediate Life Support Skills.
Experience
Essential criteria
7. Experience of managing a caseload of patients and working in a timely manner.
8. Experience of planning and executing face-to-face and home-based exercise programmes, analysing outcomes and adapting as required.
9. Experience of using motivation interviewing techniques to people with long term conditions.
10. Up to date knowledge of principles of Prehabilitation and supporting evidence.
Desirable criteria
11. Experience of delivering exercise intervention to people with cancer and other long-term conditions
12. Experience of data collection and analysis to evaluate outcomes
13. Experience or knowledge of prehabilitation / rehabilitation services.
14. Participation in Research/ audit.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
15. High level knowledge of existing exercise testing and prescription guidelines specific to long-term conditions
16. Demonstrable and competent knowledge of exercise physiology and impact of varied clinical pathologies.
17. Recognise scope of practice and boundaries of own responsibilities
Desirable criteria
18. may impact intervention