Cardiac Rehab Exercise Professional

Job summary
Are you passionate about helping people regain their confidence, improve their health and achieve their recovery goals? We are looking for an enthusiastic Exercise Professional to play a key role in delivering our Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme as part of a supportive multidisciplinary team.

In this rewarding role, you will assess patients' functional capacity and mobility, deliver inspiring individual and group exercise sessions, and provide education that empowers patients to make positive lifestyle changes. You'll develop and adapt personalised exercise programmes to meet a wide range of needs, ensuring patients with co-morbidities or physical limitations receive safe, effective and tailored support. You will also contribute to the ongoing evaluation and audit of the programme, helping to drive high-quality care and excellent patient outcomes.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine your expertise in exercise and rehabilitation with a genuine passion for improving lives, supporting patients on their journey to better health and wellbeing.

Main duties of the job
Key Responsibilities

• Under supervision of the Cardiac Rehabilitation Band 6 Exercise Professional, deliver and develop high quality cardiac rehabilitation exercise programmes. Amongst others, these will include a high intensity circuit based cardio vascular exercise programme and a chair based exercise programme providing low intensity functional exercise.
• Deliver, develop and maintain safe and effective group exercise sessions for patients with a wide range of cardiovascular conditions and work within the standards and protocols set by the BACPR and ACPICR under the supervision on the Cardiac Rehab Band 6 Exercise Professional
• To use clinical reasoning and evidence based practise to risk stratify and deliver individual and group exercise programmes, and recommendations for patients based on specialist knowledge.
• Under the supervision of the Band 6 Exercise Professional hold responsibility for a given caseload of patients within a defined area of cardiac rehabilitation.
• To understand and apply clinical governance and clinical risk management principles to your own caseload.
• Demonstrate the ability to co-ordinate the cardiac rehabilitation service in absence of the Band 6 Cardiac Rehabilitation Exercise Professional and Cardiac Rehab Team Leaders.
• To undertake appropriate functional testing assessments both pre, post cardiac rehabilitation, and interpret results in order to guide safe individualised exercise prescription.

About us
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity and Paediatrics. You will be joining a friendly, high performing Trust committed to ensuring the health and wellbeing of staff. As one of the largest NHS Trusts in our region you will have access to a programme of high quality training and development to help you grow your career. The Trust continues to be committed to delivering the best patient care using the best clinical knowledge and technology available.

Our values
We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience - we recruit individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trusts core values. We achieve this by using values based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, we are committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

Please note that vacancies may close prior to the advertised closing date when sufficient number of applications have been received. All new staff will be subject to a probationary period covering first 6 months in post. Travel between hospital sites may be required. Please review all documents attached to ensure you familiarize yourself with all requirements of the job.

Closing date: 05 November 2026
Salary: £32,073 to £39,043 a year pa
Contract: Permanent
Working pattern: Full-time
Reference number: 418-CARD74524-EH
Job location: Luton and Dunstable Hospital, Luton, LU4 0DZ