Physiotherapist / Exercise Specialist in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Physiotherapist / Exercise Specialist in Cardiac Rehabilitation

Band 7

Main area Cardiac Rehabilitation / Physiotherapist / Exercise Physiologist Grade Band 7 Contract Permanent Hours Full time - 37.5 hours per week Job ref 213-DivisionC-8284663-A

Employer King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Employer type NHS Site King's College Hospital Town London Salary £58,133 - £65,261 per annum including HCA Salary period Yearly Closing 22/10/2026 23:59

King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is one of the UK’s largest and busiest teaching Trusts with a turnover of c£2.1 billion, 1.5 million patient contacts a year and more than 14,000 staff based across 5 main sites in South East London. The Trust provides a full range of local hospital services across its different sites, and specialist services from King’s College Hospital (KCH) sites at Denmark Hill in Camberwell and at the Princess Royal University Hospital (PRUH) site in the London Borough of Bromley.

We encourage all our staff to have a healthy work/life balance. In doing so, you can apply for flexible working from the beginning of your employment. We offer a range of options which are designed to suit different circumstances and priorities in line with service requirements.

• To assist in providing an integrated cardiac rehabilitation (CR) service primarily for residents within Lambeth & Southwark, working closely with primary and secondary care.
• To work as an independent and autonomous practitioner within a multi professional team, ensuring that patients with multiple pathologies due to cardiac disease receive the highest standards of care.
• To ensure delivery of a high quality, effective and efficient cardiac rehabilitation service within allocated resources.
• To manage cardiac rehabilitation patient caseloads. The post holder will also run their own clinics and jointly manage the cardiac rehabilitation programme of exercise and education sessions.
• To provide professional support, clinical expertise and appropriate education and training to all those professionals involved in providing care to patients with cardiac disease.

Main duties of the job

To manage cardiac rehabilitation patient caseloads. The post holder will be expected to run their own clinics, jointly manage the cardiac rehabilitation exercise programme and play a key role in patient education.

Working for our organisation

The Trust provides a full range of local and specialist services across its five sites. In June 2026, we launched our new strategy for 2026-31. Our vision is to transform healthcare, and we have agreed six strategic ambitions to help us improve care for patients, and the working lives of our staff.

Our six strategic ambitions are deliveringhigh-quality patient care; creating a great place to work; leading pioneering research, innovation and education; building strong and successful partnerships; providing timely and efficient care; and ensuring long-term financial sustainability.

We have also agreed four new organisational values – Caring, Collaborative, Inclusive, Innovative – and these underpin everything we do, and how our teams interact with the patients under our care.

We are at a pivotal point in our history and we require individuals who are ready to join a highly professional team and make a real, lasting difference to our patients and our people.

King’s is committed to delivering Sustainable Healthcare for All via our Green Plan. In line with national Greener NHS ambitions, we have set net zero carbon targets of 2040 for our NHS Carbon Footprint and 2045 for our NHS Carbon Footprint Plus. Everyone’s contribution is required in order to meet the goals set out in our Green Plan and we encourage all staff to work responsibly, minimising their contributions to the Trust’s carbon emissions, waste and pollution wherever possible.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Clinical Responsibilities

• Draw on advanced specialist knowledge and use professional skills of the highest standard to act as an autonomous practitioner to assess, plan and provide specialised cardiac rehabilitation services for cardiac patients. This will require the ability to make critical judgments and decision-making.
• Maintain a caseload of cardiac patients at various stages of disease progression, delivering specialist care across hospital and community settings.
• Liaise with Primary, Secondary and Tertiary services to ensure a seamless transition between services and across boundaries.
• Provide specialist cardiac rehabilitation advice, support and education to patients and carers as appropriate to their individual needs.
• Make and receive patient referrals undertaking a specialist assessment of individual need and integrating an appropriate raft of health and social care provision for the individual, facilitating inter agency and cross boundary collaboration.
• Use counselling skills and experience to manage and impart highly sensitive and often complex information to patients and relatives or carers in a dignified and sensitive manner.

Education and Research

• Provide written and clear oral information for clients and carers about all aspects of cardiac rehabilitation and cardiac care, to help patients make informed choices as to their treatment plan and continuing management.
• Participate in the delivery of the health education component of the cardiac rehabilitation programme.
• Attend meetings and conferences as appropriate ensuring that you are fully conversant with current issues within the trust and within cardiac rehabilitation.
• Participate in clinical audit within the team as directed and by the entry of accurate data for local and national databases.
• Participate in any appropriate/relevant trust approved research or projects conducted within the team.
• To be aware of and actively apply research and evidence-based practice relevant to cardiac rehabilitation.
• Able to work with other staff in clinical areas where changes to practice are required, also where opportunities exist to improve treatment and support for patients.

Communication

• To consult appropriately with senior specialist staff regarding patients with particular problems.
• Effectively assist patients with lifestyle changes and symptom management. Addressing their risk factors for CHD as applicable, by motivating patients through effective communication skills.
• Ensuring all patients are fully informed of the risks and benefits of proposed procedures/treatments, contributing to the process of securing informed consent.
• Communicate effectively with patients and carers to maximise rehabilitation potential and to improve understanding, ensuring an appropriate response to individual patients’ level of communication, facilitating the best possible communication outcome e.g. use of interpreters.

Management

• To participate in any local change programmes to improve standards and communication links from acute trust through to Primary Care .
• Network with the team of clinical specialists within the Trust and other cardiac rehabitlion centres to evaluate and promote the specialist role.
• To keep accurate patient data, via the data information system to aid audit and to maintain contemporaneous and accurate treatment records.

Personal Professional Development

• To achieve a range of clinical competencies as required within the team, such as exercise programmes and undertaking relevant training.
• To keep up to date with current literature and research within cardiac rehabilitation.
• To undergo and actively participate in your own performance appraisals.

Person specification

Essential & Desirable

• Degree in Physiotherapy or Exercise Physiology and Professional registration
• Previous experience of working with cardiology and cardiac surgery patients
• Previous experience of leading change in a clinical environment
• Relevant, demonstrable experience in cardiac care
• Member of relevant multi professional interest group
• Previous experience of managing own caseload and experience of reviewing/assessing patients in an outpatient clinic environment

King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Annual Reports and Other Corporate Publications

King's Health Partners Academic Health Science Centre Website

King's College Hospital is part of King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC), a pioneering collaboration between King's College London, and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts.

Employer certification / accreditation badges

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Application numbers

Please note that the closing date is given as a guide. On occasions, we may close a vacancy early due to a high number of applications being received. You are advised to submit your application as early as possible to avoid disappointment.

Name Iain Waite Job title Clinical Lead for Cardiac Rehabilitation Email address iain.waite@nhs.net Telephone number 02032993495

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