Associate Exercise Physiologist

St Bartholomew’s Hospital | Physiology | Permanent | Full time |

Up to £35,000 depending on experience

37.5 hours per week

The successful candidate will work under the direction of senior members of the team to conduct clinical exercise testing, risk stratification, exercise prescription, physical activity counselling, exercise supervision, and health education/promotion to assist in the recovery from illness and prevent or manage chronic disease. You will work under the direction of senior members of the team in conducting patient assessments, functional capacity testing, as well as leading the delivery of small group and individual exercise training and health education sessions.

Whilst working within your scope of practice, you will work alongside other members of the MDT to promote physical activity and healthy lifestyle change for patients who have had a cardiac diagnosis, surgery or procedure, or are undergoing cancer treatment. You will provide supervision and line management for more junior members of the team. You will work to maintain excellent relationships with all stakeholders including cancer and cardiac care leads, consultants and clinical nurse specialists.

You will be expected to manage and prioritise a patient caseload. You will have the opportunity to contribute to service development and quality improvement. You will help support some operational and clinical governance requirements of the department.

About the person

We are seeking a highly motivated exercise professional with experience of working in a clinical setting. The ideal candidate would have experience of cardiac and/or cancer rehabilitation. This role would suit an individual who has aspirations to be an AHCS registered Clinical Exercise Physiologist, and is keen to gain further skills, knowledge and experience.

You should have a proven ability to work effectively in a team and have excellent communication and time management skills.

It will be essential to have:

BSc Sports and Exercise or Science or health-related Science degree or equivalent (minimum 2:2)

It will be desirable to have:

BASES Certified Exercise Practitioner/ BASES Accredited Sports and Exercise Scientist or working towards
Level 4 BACPR cardiac rehabilitation exercise instructor qualification
Level 4 qualification in cancer and exercise rehabilitation (CIMSPA recognised)
Experience working in a hospital setting  
Experience of running group rehabilitation classes 
Clinical exercise prescription
Chronic disease management
Public health experience
Post-graduate qualifications in a health-related discipline
AHCS accredited clinical exercise physiology masters or working towards.

Candidates must be computer literate as we will be using an electronic patient record system

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That’s why we’ve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Nuffield Health Barts Hospital

We’ve opened the doors to Nuffield Health at St Bartholomew’s Hospital: The City of London’s only independent hospital, situated next to St Bartholomew’s NHS hospital. This is our flagship center for cardiac services and will also provide a full range of surgical and medical services, including: orthopaedics, oncology, general surgery, genecology and urology services.

Our hospital consists of 55 beds, including 7 Specialist intensive care beds, four of the most advanced digital operating theatres and Endoscopy and minor ops theatre. With 28 consultation rooms. Cardiac catheterisation lab, Oncology Day unit and full diagnostic imaging suite including MRI, CT, ultrasound, mammography and general X-ray.

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