Job requirements
Requirements from the employer’s person specification. These describe the role, not your personal match.
Essential
35 listedRequirements the employer expects applicants to meet.
- Training
Evidence of Continuing Professional Development
- Training
Significant evidence of post graduate training and work experience relevant to specialist adult community rehabilitation
- Experience
Experience of managing a range of respiratory conditions in the community setting, including the use of oropharyneal and tracheal suction.
- Experience
Significant experience of managing junior staff including students
- Experience
Participation in service improvement/ audits within a service to drive change.
- Experience
Some experience of co-ordinating and delivering In-service training.
- Experience
Post graduate experience relavant to the service
- Experience
Experience working in the community
- Experience
Proven experience assessing patients in a wide range of settings
- Experience
Demonstratable experience of managing own caseload and delegation
- Experience
Demonstratable experience writing and implementing care plans
- Experience
Significant experience working in a multi-disciplinary team
- Qualifications
Diploma/Degree in Physiotherapy/ Nursing
- Qualifications
Current registration with HCPC/ NMC
- Specific Skills
Excellent assessment skills
- Specific Skills
Knowledge of Pulmonary Rehabilitation and the clinical health benefits associated.
- Specific Skills
Able to motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive or physical ability
- Specific Skills
Knowledge of Pulmonary Rehabilitation national guidance.
- Specific Skills
Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently
- Specific Skills
Good time management and organisational skills
- Specific Skills
Well developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal
- Specific Skills
Car driver with valid license for UK and access to vehicle for work purposes
- Personal Qualities
Ability to respond positively to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions in response to An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders. Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care. Interview urgent clinical situations eg. Patients voicing suicidal concerns
- Personal Qualities
Assertive, credible and proactive with good problem solving skills and proactive 'can do' attitude
- Personal Qualities
Knowledge of our buisness
- Personal Qualities
Committed to our Values and Behaviours
- Personal Qualities
Flexible approach to meeting service and client needs
- Personal Qualities
Ability to remain calm and professional with patients who may be physically or emotionally distressed
- Personal Qualities
Ability to demonstrate empathy
- Personal Qualities
Self-motivated and keen to learn and develop new skills for self and team
- Personal Qualities
Willingness to develop clinical and assessment skills into new areas
- Personal Qualities
Enthusiastic about working in a multiprofessional team
- Personal Qualities
Passionate about providing high quality, person centred health and social care in the community
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Sound IT skills including word processing and data analysis such as Microsoft Word and Excel
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Be aware of and adhere to Information Governance responsibilities relevant to your role
Desirable
19 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Training
Practice Educator training
- Training
Leadership training
- Training
Evidence of Study at MSc Level
- Experience
Experience of writing and implementing policy and procedures
- Experience
Experience of measuring and monitoring own and others performance
- Experience
Experience working in the acute sector
- Experience
Experience working in a team where roles and tasks are shared across professional working boundaries
- Experience
An understanding of multi professional careplanning
- Experience
Experience of measuring and monitoring clinical practice
- Qualifications
Post-Graduate Msc in relevant field.
- Qualifications
Member of CSP
- Qualifications
Member of specialist interest group
- Specific Skills
Skilled negotiator and communicator in a range of environments and across complex teams
- Specific Skills
Complaints handling
- Specific Skills
Experience of working to KPIs and service targets
- Specific Skills
Use of electronic patient record systems
- Personal Qualities
Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care.
- Personal Qualities
An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders.
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Experience using Electronic Record Systems including EMIS or EPIC
Job overview
Specialist Physiotherapist/ Specialist Respiratory Nurse
Band 7 - £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum pro rata inclusive of Hcas
Perm - 37.5 hrs per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a specialist physiotherapist/ respiratory nurse to join the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team at Bromley Healthcare. The service is currently working towards national accreditation through the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service Accreditation Scheme (PRSAS) and is a great opportunity for an individual to further their managerial and leadership skills. This role is a mixture of clinical and non-clinical responsibilities. Clinical responsibilities include the triage, assessment, and treatment of service users for Pulmonary Rehabilitation. Non-clinical duties include the supervision of junior members of staff and students, taking a lead role in the accreditation through report writing and data manipulation, and facilitating ongoing training to the team.
Interviews to be held week commencing 12th October 2026
Main duties of the job
- To undertake full respiratory assessments and independently plan individual, specialised, evidence-based, treatment programmes for patients appropriately using clinical reasoning and a variety of highly specialised skills such as use of respiratory monitoring, exercise prescription and exercise progression
- Devising rehabilitation programmes using the most up to date available evidence and guidance to enable clients to develop skills that will improve their performance and independence as well as health and wellbeing
- To formulate and evaluate individualised management and / or treatment plans, using clinical reasoning and utilising a wide range of treatment skills and options in order to formulate a specialised programme of care e.g. supported Self-management.
- To continue to work towards National Accreditation of the service alongside the service lead
- To be responsible for own and the teams allocated work plan, and to independently plan and organise this with regard to clinical priorities and effective use of time, depending on changing priorities on a daily basis.
- To lead the use of evidence-based practice in service delivery and ensure there is an infrastructure to support this
- Be proactive in maintaining an up-to-date knowledge of relevant local and national policy and evidence which drives and informs treatment to these cohort of patients. The post holder will be innovative in the implementation of evidence base practices and apply these within the service.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please see the attached Job and Person Specification for a more detailed breakdown of job description and main responsibilities.
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.
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This advert is for Specialist Physiotherapist/ Specialist Respiratory Nurse with Bromley Healthcare CIC in Orpington, United Kingdom. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £55,524 - £62,652 Per annum pro rata inclusive of Hcas. The contract type is Permanent. The application deadline is 30 Sep 2026.
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