Job overview

BHRUT is one of the largest University Hospitals, providing acute care for over 700,000 people from across two main sites - King George Hospital and Queens Hospital.  We are recruiting for a Physiotherapist / Exercise instructor who shares our ambition to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the passion and drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.  The Cardiac Rehabilitation Service at BHRUT is fully certified in the National Certification Programme for Cardiac Rehabilitation and strives to offer the highest service to all our patients.  We offer face to face, virtual and telephone appointments to patients throughout their recovery.  We see a range of cardiac conditions including Myocardial Infarction, Percutaneous Coronary Intervention, Coronary Artery Bypass Graft, Valve Replacement, Internal Cardiac Defibrillators, Transplant and with the addition of this post Heart Failure.  You are expected to assist with the delivery of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Service, delivering a service across hospital and community sites as well as a virtual aspect.  You will be involved in all aspects of the programme including assessments, exercise programme and the educational component but will take the lead with exercise as required.  We are looking for forward thinking, enthusiastic individuals to join our dedicated team of professionals working to the highest quality standards.

Main duties of the job

The Cardiac Rehabilitation Team (CR) operates in line with the national objectives for cardiac rehabilitation and to the divisional and corporate objectives and quality and safety framework. The team provide clinical expertise across departments and divisional boundaries. The post holder will work as guided by the Cardiac Rehabilitation Lead to have a teaching presence along with clinical patient contact. The job purpose is to maintain evidence-based standards and a high quality of patient focused care that delivers an outstanding individualised experience for every patient.  To provide exercise prescription for cardiovascular endurance, exercise and resistance training within a cardiac rehabilitation setting.    

Working for our organisation

We’re an organisation that is getting better and better and our improvements are driven by a determination to deliver care we’re proud of and our patients are happy with. 

They are benefitting from a new electronic patient record (we were the last acute trust in London to introduce one) and our maternity services have been rated good by the Care Quality Commission. 

We operate from two main sites – KGH in Goodmayes and Queen’s Hospital in Romford. We have two busy emergency departments with more than 346,000 people visiting them last year. We’re campaigning to secure the £35m we need to transform the A&E at Queen’s and get rid of corridor care. 

We’re proud of our regional Neurosciences Centre, Radiotherapy Centre and Hyper Acute Stroke Unit. We’re also part of the North East London Cancer Alliance. 

We run a Women’s Health Hub in Ilford; an Ageing Well Centre in Hornchurch; and Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC) at Barking Community Hospital and at St George’s Health and Wellbeing Hub. These CDCs are open 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.  

The majority of our 8,400 staff – who come from 146 different countries - live in the three diverse London boroughs we serve and are from black, Asian and minority ethnic groups. Many can work flexibly and more than 400 of them are on our Ofsted accredited apprenticeship programmes. We’re proud to be a London Living Wage employer.