# Respiratory Physiotherapist

> NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Stockport NHS Foundation Trust.

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## Summary

- **Status:** Live
- **Employer:** Stockport NHS Foundation Trust
- **Location:** Stepping Hill Hospital
- **Workplace type:** onsite
- **Profession:** Physiotherapist
- **Grade:** Band 6
- **Salary:** £39,959 - £48,117 per annum
- **Contract type:** Permanent
- **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- **Closing date:** 2026-09-08T22:59:00.000Z
- **Posted:** 2026-08-25T13:50:52.447Z
- **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Manchester/Stockport/Stockport_NHS_Foundation_Trust/COPD/COPD-v8227554
- **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8227554?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002
- **Employer website:** https://www.stockport.nhs.uk

## Job Content

### Job overview

Respiratory Physiotherapist - 37.5 - Permanent

The Community COPD Service are looking for a Respiratory Physiotherapist to join our Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service/Team. Are you a motivated and highly skilled Physiotherapist, with a genuine passion for Respiratory? The post holder will assist in delivering Stockport's Pulmonary Rehabilitation Programme, with in a community setting, for people living with respiratory conditions and/or heart failure. You will be working alongside a dedicated, highly specialised team, of physiotherapists, clinical nurse specialists and assistant practitioners. It is a varied role including managing assessment clinics, and delivering exercise and education classes. You must have excellent communication skills, and strong work ethic, in return we can offer you a supportive working environment to develop your skills within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service.

### Main duties of the job

- Be clinically responsible for a designated caseload of COPD/chronic lung condition and heart failure (HF) patients undergoing rehabilitation, ensuring high standards of care.
- Organise workload effectively, and efficiently with regard to clinical priorities and use of time, and in accordance with service demand/requirements on a changing basis.
- Provide advanced physiotherapeutic assessment of patients with diverse presentations and complex physical, psychological and emotional conditions.
- Use advanced assessment techniques, interpretation of diagnostic test results and use advanced clinical reasoning skills, to confirm a patient’s diagnosis and formulate an evidence based, goal orientated treatment plan.
- Use of relevant and appropriate screening tools.
- Review medical therapy, supported by Respiratory ACP, Non-Medical Prescribers (NMPs) and Lead Physiotherapist to ensure safe and effective treatments/management.

### Detailed job description and main responsibilities

The job description gives an overview of the main tasks and responsibilities of the role, and the person specifications focuses on the qualifications, skills, experience and knowledge required. These documents are attached on the page and can be downloaded.

The person specification below is not the full person specification, but outlines the criteria against which your application form will be assessed.

### Applicant requirements

You must have appropriate UK professional registration.

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.

## Person Specification

### Knowledge

**Essential**

- Knowledge and understanding of current government, professional and organisational standards/policies in relation to COPD and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.
- Sound knowledge of COPD and other chronic lung pathologies
- Knowledge of national standards and guidelines for COPD.

**Desirable**

- An understanding of heart failure and associated conditions

### Skills & Abilities

**Essential**

- Ability to work autonomously and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team.
- Committed to personal and team development
- High level of communication and interpersonal skills.
- Effective teaching and presentation skills.

### Education & Qualifications

**Essential**

- Degree in Physiotherapy
- HCPC registration

### Work Related Circumstances

**Essential**

- Due to the nature of the role, it is essential that applicants are able to travel independently across Stockport and have access to a suitable vehicle for business purposes. Where possible, adjustments can be considered in accordance with the Equality Act.

## Documents

- [candidate pack (pdf, 310.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=2576)
- [applicant guide (pdf, 224.4kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1756)
- [our behaviours - care (pdf, 218.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?edoc=1757)
- [jd b6 respiratory physiotherapist (pdf, 414.1kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10536911)

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