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Job summary

Main area
Preassessment
Grade
Band 5
Contract
Permanent
Hours
Part time - 21.5 hours per week
Job ref
275-0826-CEP
Employer
Medway NHS Foundation Trust
Employer type
NHS
Site
Medway Maritime Hospital - Eliot Ward
Town
Gillingham
Salary
£32,073 - £39,043 per annum/ pro rata
Salary period
Yearly
Closing
30/08/2026 23:59

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Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Band 5

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision of Better, Best, Brilliant is achieved

Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust, we are able to give our employees flexibility on where, when and the hours they work.

Our culture and values are what drives Medway NHS Foundation Trust and is the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. It is important that you understand and to refer to our values when you are completing your application and always reflect our values throughout your employment with the Trust.

Job overview

Clinical Exercise Physiologist
Division: Surgery and Anaesthetics
Care Group: Theatres and Anaesthesia
Band: NHS AfC Band 5
Salary: £32,073 - £39,043 per annum/ pro rata

 

We are recruiting for a Clinical Exercise Physiologist who shares our ambition and vision to deliver the Best of Care by the Best People and has the drive to take us forward, by ensuring that the Trust continues to be the first choice for patients and our staff.

Main duties of the job

As a Clinical Exercise Physiologist, you will play a crucial role in our multi-disciplinary prehabilitation team that works to support the Medway patients in their peri-operative pathway.  You will communicate with patients to offer prehabilitation support, advice and help with motivation during their journey to self-improve and reduce their clinical risk of complications following surgery.                    

 

Using CPET and Biopsychosocial interventions as the basis of risk assessment and treatment, we will create a patient-centred service that will truly improve patient lives.  You will be supported by a group of dedicated Consultant Periop Anaesthetic Physicians and bolstered by skilled allied health professions in support of this work.

 

 

                                                 

 

Working for our organisation

Do you have the ambition and vision to deliver our mission of the Best of Care by the Best of People providing excellent care, every time?

Here at Medway, we pride ourselves on working together as one to ensure that our shared vision is achieved for our patients. 

As a key partner in the healthcare of our local population, we are keen to deliver this as an outcome of our Trust-wide strategy – Patient First.

 Using an Operational Excellence approach to align our priorities and operational management structures, we are just over a year and half into our Patient First deployment. We are looking for creative, skilled people to join our Transformation Team and further support us on this journey.
Our culture and values define us here at Medway NHS Foundation Trust and are the heartbeat of who we are as an organisation. 


Our BEST values underpin Patient First and are at the core of the care we give to our patients, the support we offer to our staff and our overall leadership approach:


B – Bold
E – Every person counts
S – Sharing and open
T - Together


Our Trust is a great choice for people who want to develop their career in an ambitious and dynamic environment; our employees are able to choose the coverage and supplemental benefits that best fit their needs and those of their families. This includes the promotion of flexible working opportunities across the Trust.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

To be part of a team that will provide a high standard, fully comprehensive, multi-skilled Cardiopulmonary Exercise testing (CPET) and prehabilitation service in a professional manner, working to National and Departmental Guidelines whilst being accountable for own actions. Effective communication skills will support the post holder as they manage the patient pathway of these high-risk patients and support the other disciplines in their activity.

 

CPET testing will require competencies in ECG and general observations of physical parameters to monitor for ongoing pathology during the test.  This will help support our consultants to ensure the safe delivery of the testing process.  Guided by these CPET results, the post holder will have an expertise in creating personalised exercise prescriptions and Nutrional support. The successful candidate will work with other specialist members of the team to achieve the best possible outcome for the patients.

Person specification

Knowledge

Essential criteria
  • To provide all skills in line with the recognised Professional Code of Practice (BASES)
  • Commit to maintaining ALS/ILS training

Skills

Essential criteria
  • Good organisational and interpersonal skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Fault find on complex equipment
  • Calmly and accurately assess a clinical situation within own area of skill and act promptly and appropriately

Qualifications

Essential criteria
  • BSc in sport and exercise physiology or equivalent
  • Evidence of on-going professional development
  • Evidence of further study or courses in relation to the topic

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Applicant requirements

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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Further details / informal visits contact

Name
Joe Clements
Job title
Senior Exercise Physiologist
Email address
[email protected]
Telephone number
01634 974817
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