Community Respiratory Band 7 Physiotherapist/Nurse

A Vacancy at Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust.

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Camden COPD & Home Oxygen Service as a Band 7 Physiotherapist or Nurse. We are seeking an enthusiastic clinician with experience in respiratory care gained within acute, sub-acute or community settings.

The Camden COPD & Home Oxygen Service is a community-based multidisciplinary team providing specialist respiratory care across a range of pathways, including home oxygen assessment and review, domiciliary COPD management, COPD clinics, pulmonaryrehabilitationand community outreach services. The service aims to improve quality of life for people living with chronic respiratory disease, promote safe and effective oxygen use, support self-management, and reduce avoidable hospital admissions through integrated, person-centred care.

The successful candidate will work primarily within the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review (HOSAR) pathway, delivering specialist oxygen assessments,reviewsand ongoing management for patients with complex respiratory conditions. The role also includes contributing to the wider respiratory service in line with patient demand and service priorities. Education, training and support of patients, carers and healthcare professionals form an important part of the role.

The post holder will play a key role in the delivery of the Home Oxygen Service Assessment and Review (HOSAR) pathway, providing specialist assessment, review and management of patients receiving home oxygen therapy. The caseload includes patients with COPD as well as follow-up reviews for patients prescribed oxygen for other conditions, including ILD, paediatric conditions, cluster headaches and palliative care indications. Responsibilities include undertaking oxygen assessments and reviews in clinic and domiciliary settings, performing capillary blood gas sampling and ambulatory oxygen assessments, supporting safe and evidence-based oxygen prescribing, and contributing to service development, quality improvement and stakeholder engagement.

Whilst the majority of clinical time will be spent within the home oxygen pathway, the service works flexibly and all clinicians are expected to develop competencies across the wider respiratory service to support service resilience and meet patient need. Opportunities will therefore exist to contribute to pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry, domiciliary COPD management, COPD clinics and community outreach services.

Applicants should have a broad understanding of respiratory disease, particularly COPD, and experience managing patients with complex respiratory needs. Experience in pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry or home oxygen assessment is desirable but not essential, as training and support will be provided.

The teamcomprisesRespiratory Nurses, Physiotherapists, Rehabilitation Assistants, an Administratorand Respiratory Consultants. There is a strong culture of integrated working between community and secondary care, supported through close collaboration, weekly multidisciplinary team meetings, joint trainingopportunitiesand regular clinical support from Respiratory Consultants at the Royal Free Hospital and UCLH.

CNWL provides NHS services across physical health, mentalhealthand community care, delivering high-quality care in hospitals,clinicsand people's homes. As a community-based team, we are committed to delivering care closer to home through integrated, coordinated and patient-centred services.

Our team's culture is strongly shaped by the CNWL values and the SCARF principles (Safe, Compassionate, Accountable, Reflective and Fair), which underpin how we work together, supportone anotherand deliver care. We are proud of our humanistic approach and strive to create a compassionate, psychologically safe environment where staff feel valued, respected and empowered to contribute. Kindness, curiosity,collaborationand continuous learning are central to our way of working, and we actively encourage open dialogue,reflectionand feedback. We are committed to supporting professional growth and development, with staff encouraged to share knowledge, buildexpertiseand view challenges as opportunities for learning,innovationand service improvement.

• Responsibility for the smooth running of the HOSAR pathway on a day to daybasis.
• Report to the Clinical Lead and Manager and team asrequired.
• Oxygen assessment and review in clinic setting and patients home, including capillary bloodgasesampling and interpretation
• Performing all types of oxygen assessments, including ambulatory oxygen assessments
• Organise and provide service specific in-service training (IST) and training topatientsand stakeholdersasrequired.
• Develop and implement Camden HOS-AR protocols
• Work with all stakeholders to promote safe and effective oxygen prescribing within guidance.
• To communicate and present cases at the weekly team caseload and/or MDTs and support less experienced staff members with this process.
• Collecting,analysingand reporting service data and KPIs
• TorepresentCamden at relevantinternal and externalstakeholder meetings.
• To ensure thathigh standardsof clinical practice and patient care aremaintainedand to ensure that other clinicians in the team do likewise.
• Supporting the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation, spirometry, domiciliary COPD management, outreachclinicsand other respiratory pathways asrequired.
• Performing Clinician of the Day duties, including managing acute patient queries, responding to clinical advice requests, and reviewing all clinical referrals and communications received via the team inbox and electronic patient record systems. Responsibilities include triaging and assessing referrals, gathering relevant clinical information from referrers and GP records,determiningpathway suitability,providingclinical advice whereappropriate, and coordinating the management of urgent clinical issues arising within team clinics, pulmonary rehabilitationsessionsand the wider respiratory service.

We are looking for an excellent communicator who can work autonomously whilst contributing positively to a multidisciplinary team. The successful candidate will be reflective, receptive to feedback and committed to continuous professional development. We value individuals who demonstrate curiosity, compassion and a growth mindset, embrace new challenges and contribute to a culture of learning, service improvement and shared decision-making.

The team is based at Peckwater Health Centre and operates Monday to Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm. The post holder will also contribute to a pro-rata senior clinician-led telephone advice service between 8:00-9:00am and 5:00-8:00pm.

Please see Job Description for further details

This advert closes on Sunday 15 Nov 2026