Job summary
- Bank hours and/or 15 hours per week
- East and South East Staffordshire
- Extremely Competitive Package
- Fabulous Employee Benefits Package
- Share Option Scheme
- Career Progression
- Work Life Balance
- Work Satisfaction
- Making a Difference
This is an amazing opportunity join our Pulmonary Rehabilitation team working hands on at our local venues and remotely. We are a rapidly growing family of healthcare companies and offer an exceptional package and progression for the right person. These are exciting times - come and join us!
Main duties of the job
We have a great opportunity for an experienced respiratory nurse to join our team delivering PR at local venues across East and South East Staffordshire delivering high quality Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR).
As well as seeing patients face to face - onsite in community-based venues, you will have the opportunity to test your skills to expand the access for people requiring PR.
As part of your role you will be responsible in supporting, organising and leading the team with group and 1:1 exercise and educational sessions for patients. You will complete in-depth assessments and build exercise plans to optimise the patients physical capacity within the limitations of their respiratory diagnosis, provide self-management plans and facilitate behavioural change for patients to better manage their respiratory conditions and enhance their quality of life.
A full Job Description is available.
About us
At Spirit Health Group, we do things differently. Were a dynamic family of healthcare companies that simplify, innovate, and inspire putting people and patients at the heart of everything we do.
Our values Brilliance, Vigour, and Family shape how we work, support each other, and deliver care. We're proud to be recognised by Best Companies for our outstanding culture and impact since 2021. Our people are pivotal in:
- Saving the NHS millions of pounds with a rapidly growing range of cost-effective healthcare products and devices.
- Implementing medicines optimisation and prescribing programmes, brilliantly
- Building innovative digital remote monitoring solutions for people with long-term health conditions.
- Providing patients with high-quality education services.
- Dispensing NHS prescriptions through our friendly pharmacy that has a passion for diabetes.
Our massive growth plans will help us save the NHS £100 million and touch the lives of millions more patients.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities
- Registered with the HCPC and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), adhering to professional guidelines, clinical governance, and maintaining personal development through CPD and clinical supervision.
- Assess, plan, and deliver face-to-face, digital, and home-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) programmes across allocated locations, using platforms like CliniTouch and telephone consultations.
- Conduct thorough clinical assessments, including subjective and objective measures, risk assessments, and evaluation of clinical outcomes (e.g., MCID, PROMs), ensuring appropriate exercise prescription.
- Provide specialist, evidence-based care, using clinical reasoning to tailor treatment plans, and advising patients on respiratory self-management and lifestyle modifications.
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams, including delivering complex or sensitive information, and using motivational strategies to promote engagement and self-management.
- Ensure informed consent, assess patient capacity, and respect confidentiality, privacy, and dignity always, working within legal and ethical frameworks.
- Keep accurate, concurrent patient records in line with legal and organisational standards and contribute to audit and evaluation of all PR service types.
- Promote health and wellbeing, deliver education tailored to individual respiratory needs, and involve families/carers as appropriate in the rehabilitation process.
- Work autonomously and collaboratively, prioritising workload effectively, contributing to service outcomes, and supporting quality standards such as those set by the CQC.
- Engage in service development and quality improvement, including teaching, shared learning, data analysis, incident reporting, and reflecting on team performance.
- Participate in mandatory and role-specific training, staying updated with national guidelines, best practice standards, and innovations in PR and respiratory care.
- Safeguard vulnerable patients, actively participating in safeguarding procedures and promoting a safe, inclusive service environment.
Values & Behaviours
Brilliance -Were dedicated to improving value and efficiency across healthcare systems. We simplify the complex, provide informed data driven solutions, and deliver tangible results, brilliantly!
Vigour -We challenge perceived wisdom, thrive on change and implement better approaches that are designed to tackle root causes. We have a positive attitude and love a business challenge.
Family -We help, listen and seek to understand our patients and customers to help make better informed decisions. We treat everyone with respect and truthfully share information.
Specific Skills/Competencies/Qualifications/Person Specification
- Diploma or Degree Physiotherapy leading to inclusion on the HCPC Register
- Evidence of post registration experience
- Experience of working with patients with respiratory disease or other long-term conditions
- Experience in delivering pulmonary rehabilitation would be desirable
- IT and data entry computer skills
- Awareness of current issues in NHS, including clinical governance
- Knowledge of national guidelines pertinent to Respiratory conditions, including COPD
- Knowledge of best practice in relation to respiratory conditions and pulmonary rehabilitation
- Excellent assessment skills
- Excellent clinical reasoning skills
- Team leadership skills
- Good communication skills
- Able to utilise current evidence base into practice
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of the team
- Can demonstrate Spirit Values.
Job description
Job responsibilities
Principal Responsibilities
- Registered with the HCPC and Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP), adhering to professional guidelines, clinical governance, and maintaining personal development through CPD and clinical supervision.
- Assess, plan, and deliver face-to-face, digital, and home-based Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR) programmes across allocated locations, using platforms like CliniTouch and telephone consultations.
- Conduct thorough clinical assessments, including subjective and objective measures, risk assessments, and evaluation of clinical outcomes (e.g., MCID, PROMs), ensuring appropriate exercise prescription.
- Provide specialist, evidence-based care, using clinical reasoning to tailor treatment plans, and advising patients on respiratory self-management and lifestyle modifications.
- Communicate effectively with patients, carers, and multidisciplinary teams, including delivering complex or sensitive information, and using motivational strategies to promote engagement and self-management.
- Ensure informed consent, assess patient capacity, and respect confidentiality, privacy, and dignity always, working within legal and ethical frameworks.
- Keep accurate, concurrent patient records in line with legal and organisational standards and contribute to audit and evaluation of all PR service types.
- Promote health and wellbeing, deliver education tailored to individual respiratory needs, and involve families/carers as appropriate in the rehabilitation process.
- Work autonomously and collaboratively, prioritising workload effectively, contributing to service outcomes, and supporting quality standards such as those set by the CQC.
- Engage in service development and quality improvement, including teaching, shared learning, data analysis, incident reporting, and reflecting on team performance.
- Participate in mandatory and role-specific training, staying updated with national guidelines, best practice standards, and innovations in PR and respiratory care.
- Safeguard vulnerable patients, actively participating in safeguarding procedures and promoting a safe, inclusive service environment.
Values & Behaviours
Brilliance -Were dedicated to improving value and efficiency across healthcare systems. We simplify the complex, provide informed data driven solutions, and deliver tangible results, brilliantly!
Vigour -We challenge perceived wisdom, thrive on change and implement better approaches that are designed to tackle root causes. We have a positive attitude and love a business challenge.
Family -We help, listen and seek to understand our patients and customers to help make better informed decisions. We treat everyone with respect and truthfully share information.
Specific Skills/Competencies/Qualifications/Person Specification
- Diploma or Degree Physiotherapy leading to inclusion on the HCPC Register
- Evidence of post registration experience
- Experience of working with patients with respiratory disease or other long-term conditions
- Experience in delivering pulmonary rehabilitation would be desirable
- IT and data entry computer skills
- Awareness of current issues in NHS, including clinical governance
- Knowledge of national guidelines pertinent to Respiratory conditions, including COPD
- Knowledge of best practice in relation to respiratory conditions and pulmonary rehabilitation
- Excellent assessment skills
- Excellent clinical reasoning skills
- Team leadership skills
- Good communication skills
- Able to utilise current evidence base into practice
- Able to prioritise own workload and that of the team
- Can demonstrate Spirit Values.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- As a successful candidate, you will use your clinical expertise and decision-making skills to support patients throughout their pulmonary rehabilitation journey and to optimise the exercise and activity prescription leading to better patient outcome measures and ultimately an enhanced quality of life for them.
- We are looking for a qualified experienced respiratory nurse, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who is confident and experienced in managing patients with respiratory conditions. You will need to be able to work autonomously and support and lead the team. Experience of working in the community is desirable and you will need a full driving licence and access to a vehicle to travel to venues. All training and support will be given to the successful candidate.
- There is an option to work either 15 hours per week or as a bank position, with the possibility that the bank position may lead to a permanent role as our service expands.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- As a successful candidate, you will use your clinical expertise and decision-making skills to support patients throughout their pulmonary rehabilitation journey and to optimise the exercise and activity prescription leading to better patient outcome measures and ultimately an enhanced quality of life for them.
- We are looking for a qualified experienced respiratory nurse, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, who is confident and experienced in managing patients with respiratory conditions. You will need to be able to work autonomously and support and lead the team. Experience of working in the community is desirable and you will need a full driving licence and access to a vehicle to travel to venues. All training and support will be given to the successful candidate.
- There is an option to work either 15 hours per week or as a bank position, with the possibility that the bank position may lead to a permanent role as our service expands.
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
Additional information
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.
UK Registration
Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).
