Respiratory Practitioner hospital @home/virtual ward
Accepting applications until: 17-Aug-2026 23:59
Vacancy status: Open
Accepting applications until: 17-Aug-2026 23:59
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guys and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 7EH
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £58,133 - £65,261 per annum inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 7)
Specialty
- Main area
- Thoracic Medicine
- Interview date
- 09/09/2026
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
We are excited to be recruiting 2 respiratory practioners (CNS or physiotherapist) to run a new innovative and forward think respiratory hospital @home/virtual ward service.
This role is part of an innovative integrated respiratory pathway delivered in partnership between Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and the @Home service. Based within the @Home community team, the postholder will provide specialist respiratory assessment and management for patients receiving acute-level care in their own homes, supporting both early supported discharge and hospital admission prevention. The role is embedded within the day-to-day delivery of the @Home service while receiving specialist respiratory clinical support, supervision and professional development from the Integrated Respiratory Teams (IRT). This includes participation in respiratory multidisciplinary team meetings, clinical supervision, teaching and education sessions, enabling the postholder to deliver high-quality, evidence-based respiratory care within an integrated multidisciplinary model. The postholder will also contribute to service development, quality improvement and clinical governance, helping to strengthen integrated respiratory care across Southwark and Lambeth.
Closing date: 17/08/2026
Interview date: 09/09/2026
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The role will be responsible for setting up a new respiratory virtual ward service within @home with support and oversight from the IRT. The new service will provide specialist assessment and management for patients with acute exacerbations of COPD or those requiring weaning oxygen.
The post holder will review patients in their homes providing expert assessment and management plans and work closely with @home clinicians and the IRT to provide specialise patient care. They will build and maintain relationships across multiagencies and will work closely as part of a team of specialist respiratory clinicians to provide care to patients across Lambeth and Southwark.
The post holder will provide specialist respiratory teaching to the @home clinicians, they will themselves receive specialist respiratory teaching and supervision from the IRT as well as specialist frailty and multisytems teaching and supervision from @home. They will attend MDMs for both services.
This is a new role and service evaluation and development will be a key part of the role. The post holder will be responsible for contributing to the ongoing development of clinical practice, and standards of care within the service, including development of policies, protocols and guidelines and leading service developments. They will also ensure the safety and well being of services users, and always work in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person centered care principles.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas's NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research. We have one of the National Institute for Health Research’s biomedical research centres, established with King’s College London in 2007, as well as dedicated clinical research facilities.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Clinical Leadership and Managerial
- To work autonomously, managing a caseload of patients within the specialty whilst working as part of the multidisciplinary team, delivering individualised and personalised direct patient care
- Be responsible for assessing and recognising emergencies in the speciality. To interpret information and take appropriate action and to lead others to do the same.
- Act as an advocate for patients in Lambeth and Southwark across KHP , to ensure a patient orientated approach to the delivery of care and to meet standards within the NHS Plan and other relevant guidelines.
- Ensure that patients’ receive high quality clinical care and a good patient experience, having regard for their customs, religious beliefs and doctrines.
- Recognise and avoid situations that may be detrimental to the health and wellbeing of the individuals.
- Co-ordinate the provision of specialist services to patients, both within hospital and/or in the community setting, effectively liaising with multidisciplinary colleagues
- Promote high quality clinical care, and assist in the development of the specialist service, through the use of evidence based practice and clinical standards
- Provide professional and clinical leadership and expertise in the speciality and to act as a resource for education and clinical expertise in the hospital and community settings.
- Responsible for the correct administration of prescribed medication within scope of practice.
- Participate in the promotion of the specialist service through dissemination of specialist knowledge, both locally and nationally.
- Act as a role model, demonstrating high standards of care and providing clinical leadership in the specialist areas.
- Actively participate in local, national and international networking to maintain and develop expert level of knowledge in the specialty.
- Develop and evaluate assessment tools that will ensure an appropriate level of nursing or physiotherapy intervention so that patients who present with the most complex needs receive the most appropriate specialist care.
Research and Development
- Promote and undertake nursing or physiotherapy research and to publish the outcome, updating own knowledge to promote excellence in clinical practice.
- Utilise research findings in the delivery of specialist patient care, developing new ways of working and to disseminate relevant information to staff.
- Participate in and be aware of other clinical research trials for patients
- Lead and contribute to audit and research within the specialty in collaboration with colleagues, developing action plans and disseminating information.
- To be familiar with current clinical research protocol issues and relevant treatment and procedures employed in the diagnosis and treatment within their speciality.
Management and Leadership
- Provide a leadership role model and demonstrate expert knowledge and high standards of clinical practice.
- Develop the role according to patients changing needs and research findings, within the resources available.
- Maintain accurate records of the clinical service and ensuring that confidentiality of information is adhered to
- Provide cover for the other Clinical Nurse Specialist or physiotherapist as appropriate.
- Develop policies, protocols and clinical guidelines in support of the specialist service.
- Participate in the promotion of the specialty by publishing and presenting innovations and research findings locally and nationally.
- Provide specialist education to members of the clinical team, which facilitates learning and individual personal development.
- Implement and work within the Trust’s HR policies on all staffing matters, including sickness, capability and disciplinary issues. Take corrective measures if indicated in liaison with Human Resources and clinical leads.
FULL DETAILS WITHIN ATTACHED JOB DESCRIPTION
Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
- Mentorship or Equivalent
- Post-registration specialist course
Desirable criteria
- Leadership qualification
- To have or working towards non-medical physical assessment course
Experience
Essential criteria
- Significant post-registration experience within respiratory specialty
- Experience of supervision of junior staff members and/or students
- Experience assessing and managing patients with complex long-term conditions
- Experience of audit, research & evidence based care
- Experience of delivering change management both personally and as a facilitator
- Experience managing patients with COPD
Skills
Essential criteria
- Up to date knowledge of current clinical and professional issues
- Ability to assess, plan, implement and evaluate specialist care delivered to patients/clients and give relevant advice/information to patients and relatives
- Demonstrates an awareness of clinical governance and risk management
- Advanced clinical, managerial and leadership skills in specialty
- Evidence of teaching skills
Values and Behaviours
Essential criteria
- Demonstrates the Trust Values and behaviours in application
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Laura Moth
- Job title
- Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02071888636
- Additional information
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