Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Respiratory Practitioner hospital @home/virtual ward
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We are excited to be recruiting 2 respiratory practitioners (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
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.
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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 specialised patient care. They will build and maintain relationships across multi-agencies 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 multisystem 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 service users, and always work in a manner that promotes dignity and human rights through the adoption of person-centered care principles.
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.
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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.
For further details / informal visits contact:
Name: Laura Moth
Job title: Clinical Specialist Physiotherapist
Email address: l.moth@nhs.net
Telephone number: 02071888636
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