Home, community, hospital

Kingston and Richmond NHS Foundation Trust offers a range of fantastic opportunities to grow your career across both hospital and community settings in south London. Whether you're looking to build new skills or take your experience to the next level, we are uniquely placed to provide the right environment to support your professional development. With colleagues working in people’s homes, in community clinics, and in our two hospitals, we have an outstanding breadth of knowledge and experience to draw from.

Our commitment to exceptional care is reflected in being the first trust of our kind in London to achieve an ‘Outstanding’ rating from the CQC for both overall quality and leadership. We exist to provide the best possible care for our patients and we do that by giving our colleagues what they need to be their best at work. We have won numerous awards from the HSJ and Nursing Times for the way we support our colleagues across all our services.

We are proud to be recognised for our outstanding cancer care, children's services, pioneering surgical teams, and exceptional rehabilitation services. Our maternity services have been rated the "Best in London" by women surveyed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), with parents travelling to Kingston to take advantage of our considerable experience and expertise.

Our Trust values

These words are important reminders, but it’s our behaviours that tell people who we are. We expect all colleagues to bring our values to life in their work.

Job overview

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Band 6 Respiratory Specialist, Physiotherapist or Nurse, to join our community Respiratory Care Team.  We assess and treat adults living in the London borough of Richmond.  

If you are looking to develop your respiratory skills or perhaps you want a change of scenery, then look no further! Our community team can provide you with exciting opportunities for professional development including access to external training. We pride ourselves on our supportive and friendly working environment.

Main duties of the job

What will you do?

• Provide specialist respiratory interventions
• Complete specialist respiratory assessments including blood gases and spirometry. Training and competencies provided for these service specific skills
• Deliver Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes 
• Assess for and prescribe Home Oxygen therapy
• Work collaboratively with Primary, Community and Secondary care
• Manage a caseload of patients
• Travel is an integral part of the role, it is essential that you are able to travel to a variety of clinic and community sites and to patients homes within Richmond borough during the working day.

Working for our organisation

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job. 

Our values – compassionate, inclusive, collaborative and inspiring - guide the way we deliver care to our patients. 

We celebrate the diversity of our staff and strive to be an inclusive organisation. We have staff networks and various initiatives to support equality, diversity and inclusion.

If you enjoy a challenge and want to go home each day knowing you made a difference, you will thrive in our organisation.