Cardiac Rehab Exercise Physiologist

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Cardiac Rehab Exercise Physiologist

The closing date is 31 July 2025

Exercise Physiologist assisting in the implementation and auditing of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme in conjunction with the multi-disciplinary team. This post will include 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.

Main duties of the job

Deliver, develop and maintain safe and effective group exercise sessions for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions

Under supervision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Physiotherapist, deliver and develop high quality cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes.

About us

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience – we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Job responsibilities

To use clinical reasoning and evidence based practise to risk stratify and deliver individual and group exercise programmes, and recommendations for patients based on specialist knowledge.

As an autonomous practitioner, hold responsibility for a given caseload of patients within a defined area of cardiac rehabilitation.

To ensure timely communication of assessment findings, treatment and outcomes to other disciplines through the provision of reports and letters etc. To refer appropriately to MDT colleagues or services as clinical need requires.

Participate and deliver cardiac rehabilitation exercise and lifestyle education programme in a variety of settings and locations.

Encourage patient with goal orientated exercise prescription, adjusting communication style appropriately to motivate and encourage behaviour change, and to empathise and reassure as appropriate. Liaise with cardiac rehabilitation team to ensure continuity of advice and information. Involve relatives / carers as needed

Person Specification

Experience

• oMSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology oBSc in Clinical Exercise Physiology oRCCP registration
• oExperience of working with patients with cardiac disease
• oExperience of delivering exercise to a complex patient group
• oPrevious exercise teaching experience
• oExperience in adapting exercise to those with co-morbidities

Knowledge

• oKnowledge of national and local strategies relating to cardiac rehabilitation
• oKnowledge of BACPR and ACPICR standards.
• oKnowledge of existing exercise & functional testing and prescription guidelines
• oDemonstrable and competent knowledge of exercise physiology and impact of varied clinical pathologies.
• oAn understanding of the cause, process and associated risk factors of cardiac disease
• oExperience of clinical audit and the principles of clinical governance.

Personal Skills

• oExcellent communication and interpersonal skills
• oAbility to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team
• oAbility to prioritise and organise workload and manage time effectively
• oAbility to work on autonomously on own initiative

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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