Job summary
- Main area
- cardiac rehabilitation
- Grade
- AFC Band 7
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (funded by NHSE and approved at FISG)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week (Monday to friday)
- Job ref
- 391-NMUH-7038514-A
- Employer
- Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- north Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust Hospital
- Town
- EDMONTON
- Salary
- £51,883 - £58,544 Inclusive of Outer HCAS per annum
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading

Highly Specialist Physiotherapist- Cardiac Rehabilitation/Exercise physiologist
AFC Band 7
The North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust is a medium-sized acute and community trust with over 525 beds and over 600 community staff, serving more than 600,000 people living across Enfield and Haringey and the surrounding areas, including Barnet and Waltham Forest.
The hospital has been on its present site for over 100 years and was established as an NHS trust by statute in December 1990. The Trust’s services are provided on the North Middlesex University Hospital site as well as a range of community sites across the London Borough of Enfield, including at partner hospitals. They provide services in collaboration with a range of partners, including local GPs, acute, mental health and other community health service providers across North Central London.
In the year ending 31 March 2022, the Trust reported a turnover of £419.7m and employed almost 4,000 staff. Following the transfer of Enfield Community Services on 1st April 2023, this has increased as we have welcomed over 600 new staff including District Nurses, Community Matrons, Community Physiotherapists, Psychologists and many more across a wide range of adult and children’s community services in Enfield. It is an exciting time to join North Mid as we continue our journey to become an integrated care organisation to deliver high quality, seamless care in our local communities, with a focus on tackling health inequalities.
Job overview
Highly Specialist Physiotherapist- Cardiac Rehabilitation/Exercise physiologist
Band: 7 Full-Time
Are you an experienced physiotherapist with a passion for cardiac rehabilitation? We have an exciting opportunity for a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist to join our dynamic team, playing a key role in delivering high-quality rehabilitation services to patients recovering from myocardial infarction (MI), revascularisation procedures (PCI/CABG), and heart failure in particular to develop the exercise component of the service.
This role may be ideal for someone looking for a secondment opportunity to gain experience in service development and cardiac rehabilitation.
About You
We are looking for a motivated physiotherapist with:
✔ HCPC registration and a degree in Physiotherapy.
✔ Experience in cardiac rehabilitation, exercise prescription, and patient assessment.
✔ Strong leadership skills with experience in service development and staff supervision.
✔ Excellent communication and teamwork abilities to engage patients, carers, and healthcare professionals.
✔ A passion for delivering high-quality, evidence-based rehabilitation care.
Main duties of the job
As a Highly Specialist Physiotherapist, you will:
✅ Lead the assessment, planning, and delivery of safe and effective exercise programs in line with BACPR Standards and NICE guidelines.
✅ Support patients across onsite, community, online, and home-based rehabilitation settings, promoting long-term recovery and preventing hospital readmissions.
✅ Provide specialist advice to patients, carers, and healthcare professionals, ensuring a patient-centred approach.
✅ Take a leadership role in service development, modernization, and expansion, contributing to strategic planning and policy implementation.
✅ Supervise and support the training, development, and recruitment of staff within the service.
✅ Work independently and collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team, contributing to the continuous improvement of cardiac rehabilitation services.
Working for our organisation
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system – consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey. As with other ICS’s, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level. Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care. We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George’s University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
Take a tour of our hospital here
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Why Join Us?
🌟 Be part of an innovative and supportive team dedicated to improving cardiac patient outcomes.
🌍 Work across diverse settings, including hospital, community, and home rehabilitation programs.
📈 Opportunities for professional development, training, and career progression.
💡 Make a real impact in shaping and expanding a vital cardiac rehabilitation service.
If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to an innovative, patient-focused cardiac rehabilitation service, we’d love to hear from you!
Person specification
Education and qualifications
Essential criteria
- Degree/Diploma in Physiotherapy
- Registered with the Health Professions Council
- Sufficient Knowledge acquired through (formal and informal) specialist training to be able to manage a caseload of clients with complex needs.
Desirable criteria
- Evidence of master’s level qualification or equivalent experience in relevant clinical area
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience of working with people with long term conditions
- Highly developed communication skills
- Experience of developing educational programs, teaching, and presenting
- experience of working with people with coronary heart disease.
- Experience of multi-professional working
Desirable criteria
- Experience of using health promotion techniques
- motivational interviewing skills
- Knowledge of person-centered care, positive psychology, behaviour change and self-management
Professional/managerial/specialist knowledge
Essential criteria
- Understanding of HCPC Code of professional conduct
- Knowledge of national exercise guidelines for patients with coronary heart disease.
- Evidence of relevant continued professional development to stay updated with latest research in CR for best practice
Desirable criteria
- Advanced communication skills training or prepared to work towards
Personal skills and abilities
Essential criteria
- Able to work on own initiative, organising and prioritising own and other’s workloads to changing and often tight deadlines.
- Ability to work under pressure, manage time effectively, and prioritise tasks.
- Ability to speak in front of a group.
Values
Essential criteria
- Demonstrable ability to meet Trust values
Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Bibi Ford
- Job title
- Lead Nurse for Cardiology
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 0208 887 3610
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