Job requirements
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 the service
- Qualifications
Diploma/ Degree in Physiotherapy or 1st Level RGN
- Qualifications
Current registration with HCPC or NMC
- Specific skills
Excellent assessment skills
- Specific skills
Knowledge of national guidance for oxygen and management of patients with chronic respiratory conditions
- Specific skills
Good time management and organisational skills
- Specific skills
Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently
- Specific skills
Well-developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal
- Specific skills
Able to motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive or physical ability
- Specific skills
Car driver with licence valid for UK and access to vehicle for work purposes
- Personal Qualities
Knowledge of our business
- Personal Qualities
Committed to our values and behaviours
- Personal Qualities
Committed to the 6Cs
- Personal Qualities
Flexible approach to meeting service and client needs
- Personal Qualities
Ability to remain calm and professional with patients who may be emotionally and physically distressed
- Personal Qualities
Ability to demonstrate empathy
- Personal Qualities
Assertive, credible and proactive with good problem-solving skills and pro-active 'can do' attidude
- 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 as part of a multi-professional team
- Personal Qualities
Ability to respond positively to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions in response to urgent clinical situations e.g. patients voicing suicidal concerns
- Knowledge and Experience
Significant experience working with patients with respiratory disease
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience in management of patients on oxygen
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience taking and interpreting capillary blood gasses for oxygen assessments
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working in the community
- Knowledge and Experience
Proven experience of assessing patients in a wide range of settings
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstratable experience of managing own caseload and delegation
- Knowledge and Experience
Demonstratable experience of writing and implementing personalised care plans
- Knowledge and Experience
Significant experience of managing junior staff including students
- Knowledge and Experience
Significant experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team
- Knowledge and Experience
Some experience of coordinating and delivering inservice training
- Knowledge and Experience
Participation in service improvement/ audits within a service to drive change
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Ability to use MS office e.g. word, excel, outlook
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Be aware of and adhere to Information Governance responsibilities relavent to your role
Desirable
17 listedAdditional qualities the employer would prefer.
- Training
Evidence of studying at MSC level
- Training
Practice Educator training
- Training
Leadership training
- Qualifications
Post-Graduate MSc in relevant field
- Qualifications
Member of specialist interest group
- Specific skills
Complaints handling
- Specific skills
Experience of working to KPIs and service targets
- Specific skills
Use of electronic patient record systems
- Specific skills
Skilled negotiator and communicator in a range of environments and across complex teams
- Personal Qualities
An interest in service development that has a robust approach to considering the needs of the service stakeholders
- Personal Qualities
Ability to work in collaboration with other professional leads to create an integrated approach to patient care
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working in the acute sector
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of working in a team where roles and tasks are shared accross professional working boundaries
- Knowledge and Experience
An understanding of multi professional care planning
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of measuring and monitoring own and others performance
- Knowledge and Experience
Experience of measuring and monitoring clinical practice
- Information Technology and Information Governance
Able to use EMIS or EPIC
Job overview
Band 7 Specialist Respiratory Nurse / Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist
£55,524 - £62,652 Per annum inclusive of HCAS
Fixed term contract to end 30/11/27 - 37.5 hrs per week
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Specialist Respiratory Nurse/ Respiratory Physiotherapist to join the Integrated Respiratory Team at Bromley Healthcare on an 11-month fixed term contract. This role is mainly clinical including completing triage, assessment and review for patients with chronic respiratory conditions (COPD, ILD, bronchiectasis etc.), long term oxygen therapy and ambulatory oxygen therapy. The team also has a prophylactic antibiotic pathway alongside the Princess Royal which you will contribute to as well as a biologics pathway which is under development. Non-clinical duties include the supervision of junior members of staff and students and facilitating ongoing training to the team.
Interviews to be held W/C 16th November 2026
Main duties of the job
- To assess and treat patients who are on the oxygen pathway following relevant guidelines
- To assess patients with chronic lung diseases holistically and develop appropriate management strategies
- To prevent hospital admissions by providing ongoing individualised self-management plans to support optimal self-care in adherence to local and BTS/NICE/COPD guideleines
- To provide specialist advice to other health care professionals within the Community Health Locality Teams on the management of patients with chronic lung diseases
- To be able to recognise deterioration, or change in patients' condition and provide appropriate care
- To support and participate in the delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme as required by the service
- To be responsible for ensuring the correct and safe use of equipment recommended by the Integrated Respiratory team by patients
- To ensure all data is collected and entered in a timely manner
- To participate in clinical audit and monitoring of the service to continuously evaluate the effectiveness of the team and comply with Clinical Governance requirements
- To assist with the management, education support and review of junior members of the Community Respiratory Team
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 Respiratory Nurse / Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist with Bromley Healthcare CIC in St Pauls Cray, England. It is listed as a Band 7 Physiotherapist role. The advertised salary is £55524.00 to £62652.00. The contract type is 11 months (Fixed term contract to end 30/11/27). The application deadline is 29 Oct 2026.
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