Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Clinical Exercise Physiologist

St Bartholomew’s Hospital | Physiology | Permanent | Full time |

Up to £46,500 (dependent on experience )

37.5 hours per week

The successful candidate will be able to use scientific rationale to perform clinical exercise testing, risk stratification, exercise prescription, physical activity counselling, exercise supervision, and health education/promotion to assist in the recovery from illness and prevent or manage chronic disease. You will work independently in conducting patient assessments, functional capacity testing, as well as leading on the delivery of small group and individual exercise training and health education sessions.

You will work alongside other members of the MDT to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle change for patients who have had a cardiac diagnosis, surgery or procedure, or are undergoing cancer treatment. You will provide supervision and line management for more junior members of the team. You will work to maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders including cancer and cardiac care leads, consultants and clinical nurse specialists.

You will be expected to manage and prioritise a patient caseload. You will have the opportunity to contribute to service development and quality improvement. You will help support some operational and clinical governance requirements of the department.

About the person

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with experience of providing individual and group tailored exercise programmes for those with cardiovascular disease. The ideal candidate would also have experience of cancer rehabilitation. You should have a proven ability to work effectively in a team and have excellent communication and time management skills.

It will be essential to have:

• Registration with the AHCS as a Clinical Exercise Physiologist (via the MSc or equivalence route)

• Experience of working in the healthcare and/or clinical setting

• Experience of health coaching / behaviour change support

• Clinical exercise prescription

• Experience of running group rehabilitation classes 

• Chronic disease management

It will be desirable to have:

• Level 4 BACPR cardiac rehabilitation exercise instructor or completion of BACPR Physical activity and exercise courses

• Level 4 qualification in cancer and exercise rehabilitation (CIMSPA recognised)

• Undergraduate degree in health-related discipline  

• Post-graduate qualifications in a health-related discipline

• Public health experience

Candidates must be computer literate as we will be using an electronic patient record system

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We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you

Nuffield Health Barts Hospital

We’ve opened the doors to Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew’s Hospital: The City of London’s only independent hospital, situated next to St Bartholomew’s NHS hospital. This is our flagship center for cardiac services and will also provide a full range of surgical and medical services, including: orthopaedics, oncology, general surgery, genecology and urology services.

Our hospital consists of 55 beds, including 7 Specialist intensive care beds, four of the most advanced digital operating theatres and Endoscopy and minor ops theatre. With 28 consultation rooms. Cardiac catheterisation lab, Oncology Day unit and full diagnostic imaging suite including MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography and general X-ray.

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