Job Introduction
Make a Meaningful Difference Every Day
Help people breathe easier, regain independence, and improve their quality of life. As a Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist, you'll play a vital role in supporting patients with complex respiratory conditions, delivering expert assessment and treatment that has a direct impact on their health, wellbeing, and recovery.
About the Role
We are seeking a motivated and skilled Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our experienced and supportive clinical team. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a specialist respiratory service, providing high-quality, evidence-based care to patients across a range of respiratory pathways.
Using your advanced clinical skills and specialist knowledge, you will assess, monitor, and review patients referred to the service, ensuring they receive personalised interventions that support improved respiratory health and independence.
Location: Chippenham Community Hospital
Hours: 37.5 hours per week
Package Description
As a Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist you will be part of our valued team at HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
- £39,959 - £48,117 FTE (Band 6 AfC Salary) with NHS Pension and full Agenda for Change terms and conditions
- Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
- Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
- Online 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 career coaching and counselling
- Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
- An 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 year
- The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with the majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission
Key Responsibilities
- Deliver specialist respiratory assessments and interventions for patients with COPD, ILD, and other long-term respiratory conditions, ensuring care is evidence-based and patient-centred.
- Assess patients for Long-Term Oxygen Therapy (LTOT), perform capillary blood gas sampling, and support appropriate, safe, and cost-effective oxygen prescribing.
- Develop, implement, and regularly review individualised care plans to optimise patient outcomes, independence, and quality of life.
- Support the delivery of Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes, including exercise prescription, education, and ongoing patient engagement.
- Empower patients to effectively self-manage their condition through education, behavioural change techniques, and health promotion initiatives.
- Manage a diverse caseload, prioritising patient needs and coordinating care in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams, GPs, consultants, and community services.
- Communicate complex clinical information clearly and sensitively to patients, families, carers, and healthcare professionals, including those receiving palliative care support.
- Maintain accurate clinical records, contribute to audit, quality improvement, service development activities, and support the training and development of colleagues while ensuring compliance with professional, organisational, and regulatory standards.
Person Specification
Essential
- Registration as a Physiotherapist with a degree-level qualification (or equivalent).
- Strong knowledge and experience in the assessment and management of long-term respiratory conditions.
- Experience working within multidisciplinary teams to deliver high-quality, patient-centred care.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with patients, carers, and colleagues.
- Good IT skills and experience maintaining accurate clinical records.
- The ability to work independently, manage priorities effectively, and adapt to changing service demands.
- A commitment to continuous professional development, quality improvement, and evidence-based practice.
Desirable
- A COPD Diploma or equivalent specialist respiratory knowledge and experience.
- A Non-Medical Prescribing qualification, or a willingness to work towards one.
- Experience working within community healthcare services.
- Experience delivering teaching, training, or education to patients and healthcare professionals.
- Involvement in service development, innovation, or quality improvement initiatives.
About the Company
We 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.
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