# Specialist Respiratory Nurse / Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapist > NHS job listing from Job Clerk for Bromley Healthcare CIC. ## Canonical URLs - **HTML:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-respiratory-nurse-specialist-respiratory-physiotherapist/7b3c3a6f-1a5a-4b78-9e55-ee77a4358891 - **Markdown:** https://www.jobclerk.com/job/specialist-respiratory-nurse-specialist-respiratory-physiotherapist/7b3c3a6f-1a5a-4b78-9e55-ee77a4358891.md ## Summary - **Status:** Live - **Employer:** Bromley Healthcare CIC - **Location:** St Pauls Cray Clinic - **Workplace type:** onsite - **Profession:** Physiotherapist - **Grade:** Band 7 - **Salary:** £55524.00 to £62652.00 - **Contract type:** 11 months (Fixed term contract to end 30/11/27) - **Employment type:** Full time - 37.5 hours per week - **Closing date:** 2026-10-29T23:59:59.999Z - **Posted:** 2026-10-15T13:58:49.691Z - **Source information URL:** https://www.healthjobsuk.com/job/-v8338365 - **Application URL:** https://apps.trac.jobs/job-advert/8338365?ShowJobAdvert=&feedid=9002 - **Employer website:** http://www.bromleyhealthcare.org.uk/ ## Job Content ### 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. ## Person Specification ### Training **Essential** - Evidence of Continuing Professional Development - Significant evidence of post graduate training and work experience relevant to the service **Desirable** - Evidence of studying at MSC level - Practice Educator training - Leadership training ### Qualifications **Essential** - Diploma/ Degree in Physiotherapy or 1st Level RGN - Current registration with HCPC or NMC **Desirable** - Post-Graduate MSc in relevant field - Member of specialist interest group ### Specific skills **Essential** - Excellent assessment skills - Knowledge of national guidance for oxygen and management of patients with chronic respiratory conditions - Good time management and organisational skills - Ability to use initiative and work creatively and independently - Well-developed interpersonal communication skills both written and verbal - Able to motivate and persuade patients with impaired cognitive or physical ability - Car driver with licence valid for UK and access to vehicle for work purposes **Desirable** - Complaints handling - Experience of working to KPIs and service targets - Use of electronic patient record systems - Skilled negotiator and communicator in a range of environments and across complex teams ### Personal Qualities **Essential** - Knowledge of our business - Committed to our values and behaviours - Committed to the 6Cs - Flexible approach to meeting service and client needs - Ability to remain calm and professional with patients who may be emotionally and physically distressed - Ability to demonstrate empathy - Assertive, credible and proactive with good problem-solving skills and pro-active 'can do' attidude - Self-motivated and keen to learn and develop new skills for self and team - Willingness to develop clinical and assessment skills into new areas - Enthusiastic about working as part of a multi-professional team - Ability to respond positively to unpredictable work patterns and frequent interruptions in response to urgent clinical situations e.g. patients voicing suicidal concerns **Desirable** - 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 ### Knowledge and Experience **Essential** - Significant experience working with patients with respiratory disease - Experience in management of patients on oxygen - Experience taking and interpreting capillary blood gasses for oxygen assessments - Experience of working in the community - Proven experience of assessing patients in a wide range of settings - Demonstratable experience of managing own caseload and delegation - Demonstratable experience of writing and implementing personalised care plans - Significant experience of managing junior staff including students - Significant experience of working as part of a multidisciplinary team - Some experience of coordinating and delivering inservice training - Participation in service improvement/ audits within a service to drive change **Desirable** - Experience of working in the acute sector - Experience of working in a team where roles and tasks are shared accross professional working boundaries - An understanding of multi professional care planning - Experience of measuring and monitoring own and others performance - Experience of measuring and monitoring clinical practice ### Information Technology and Information Governance **Essential** - Ability to use MS office e.g. word, excel, outlook - Be aware of and adhere to Information Governance responsibilities relavent to your role **Desirable** - Able to use EMIS or EPIC ## Documents - [occupational health form (pdf, 224.6kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665702) - [job description and person specification (pdf, 284.3kb)](https://www.healthjobsuk.com/documents?vdoc=10665701) ## Agent Notes - This Markdown page is generated from the same Job Clerk job record as the HTML job detail page. - Use the canonical HTML URL for user-facing references. - Use the application URL when the user wants to apply on the source NHS site.