Respiratory Practitioner hospital @home/virtual ward: Sponsorship Available

Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

Job summary

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

Main duties of the job

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 alsoensure 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.

Person Specification

Qualifications

Essential

  • BSC/1st degree (health related) or equivalent qualification/training and experience
  • Mentorship or Equivalent
  • Post-registration specialist course

Desirable

  • Leadership qualification
  • To have or working towards non-medical physical assessment course

Experience

Essential

  • 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

  • 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

  • Demonstrates the Trust Values and behaviours in application

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

UK Registration

Applicants must have current UK professional registration. For further information please see
NHS Careers website (opens in a new window).

Closing Date: 17 August 2026

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