Overview
Exercise Physiologist assisting in the implementation and auditing of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team. This post includes patient functional capacity and mobility assessments, leading individual and group exercise and education, modifying individual exercise programmes for co-morbidities and physical limitations as appropriate. Deliver, develop and maintain safe and effective group exercise sessions for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions and work within the standards and protocols set by the BACPR and ACPICR.
Responsibilities
* Use clinical reasoning and evidence-based practice to risk stratify and deliver individual and group exercise programmes, and recommendations for patients based on specialist knowledge.
* Under supervision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Physiotherapist, deliver and develop high quality cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes, including a high intensity circuit-based cardiovascular exercise programme and a chair-based exercise programme providing low intensity functional exercise.
* Deliver, develop and audit the cardiac rehabilitation service in collaboration with the multi-disciplinary team, ensuring timely communication of assessment findings, treatment and outcomes to other disciplines through reports and letters and refer to MDT colleagues or services as clinical need requires.
* Undertake autonomous functional testing assessments pre- and post-cardiac rehabilitation and interpret results to guide safe individualised exercise prescription.
* Participate and deliver cardiac rehabilitation exercise and lifestyle education programmes in a variety of settings and locations; encourage goal-oriented exercise prescription and motivate behaviour change; liaise with the cardiac rehabilitation team to ensure continuity of advice and information; involve relatives/carers as needed.
* Assess health and health-related needs of patients, carers and families day-to-day, focusing on exercise and mobility, maintaining a safe environment, health status, risk stratification and activity goals; provide advice on CHD lifestyle modification and refer to appropriate services as necessary.
* Collaborate with the multi-disciplinary team and primary/secondary health care colleagues to provide optimum management of patients, especially those with complex cardiovascular disease presentations.
* Ensure timely communication of assessment findings, treatment and outcomes to other disciplines through the provision of reports and letters; refer appropriately to MDT colleagues or services as clinical need requires.
Additional information
We run two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton, with a large Trust committed to staff health and development. Travel between hospital sites may be required. All new staff are subject to a probationary period during the first six months in post.
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