Team Lead: Respiratory Outpatients and Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Job summary

At St George's Hospital, we are dedicated to helping individuals achieve their highest level of independence and quality of life through personalised, evidence-based physiotherapy. An exciting opportunity has arisen for an enthusiastic physiotherapist to join our well-established cardiorespiratory team as Respiratory Outpatients and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team Lead Physiotherapist. The Cardiorespiratory team comprises Cardiothoracic, General ITU and Surgery, Acute and Respiratory Medicine and Community Respiratory.

As the Respiratory Outpatients and Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team Lead you would be responsible for leadership and operational management to a physiotherapy team providing pulmonary rehabilitation across Wandsworth whilst holding your own specialist caseload of Respiratory Outpatients including delivering Pulmonary Rehabilitation programmes. The role delivers evidence-based person centred care, comprising comprehensive holistic assessment and treatment of complex respiratory patients in both the acute and community settings.

Main duties of the job

We are seeking an experienced and driven physiotherapist with a passion for respiratory care to lead and develop the Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Outpatient respiratory physiotherapy service across Wandsworth. This role will provide expert clinical assessment, high quality treatment and effective leadership to ensure the delivery of a responsive and patient centred service.

The post holder will undertake highly specialist assessment, diagnosis and management of patients with complex multi-faceted respiratory conditions including post discharge, exacerbations and palliative respiratory management in both the acute and community settings.

As the Pulmonary Rehabilitation and Respiratory Outpatients team lead, you will work autonomously, support on-call respiratory services and offer expert guidance to junior staff.

The role includes day-to-day operational leadership of the community respiratory physiotherapy and pulmonary rehabilitation pathways, overseeing rotas, caseloads, and service quality. The postholder will line manage staff, support training and supervision, and contribute to the education of students and the wider team.

You will drive service development through audit, quality improvement, and implementation of national guidelines, ensuring evidence-based, patient-centred care. Strong collaborative working is essential, involving regular communication with MDT colleagues, community teams, and external partners to support integrated respiratory care.

About us

St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and St George's, Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals and Health Group form a leading regional healthcare partnership serving populations acrossSouth WestLondon, Surrey, and beyond. Our integrated hospitals group delivers a comprehensive range of services--fromcutting-edgetertiary, trauma, and specialist care to robust community health offerings--tonearly 5million people, backed by a 17,000-strong workforce.

At our flagship site, St George's Hospital in Tooting--a major teaching hospital and one of the UK's 11 major trauma centres--we drive clinical excellence and research in partnership with St George's, University ofLondonand Kingston University. Our network extends to Queen Mary's Hospital; St Helier Hospital, home to theSouth WestThames Renal and Transplantation Unit and Queen Mary's Hospital for Children; and Epsom Hospital, which hosts theSouth WestLondon Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC). Additionally, St Johns Therapy Centre and The Nelson Centre provide specialised services to a diverse patient base.