Rehabilitation Assistant in Pulmonary Rehabilitation

at  Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

This is an exciting opportunity for someone to work in the field of respiratory rehabilitation including patients with long covid syndrome. To provide delegated rehabilitation plans to people with chronic respiratory disease in a variety of environments including groups and home base rehabilitation. To provide administration support to both pulmonary rehabilitation and the post covid service.
Previous applicants need not apply
Activities will include
Implementing exercise programmes to individuals or groups.
Assisting with exercise assessments of pulmonary and long covid patients
Assisting with and or completing the exercise assessments at point of discharge
Making minor adjustments to treatment programmes within pre determined limits
Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatments.
Assisting with group exercise and advice sessions.
To utilise the SystmOne clinical information system to retrieve patient information, register referrals and discharges, deal with tasks, type and send letters.
prepare responses/letters/acknowledgments and requests for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinical lead and therapy staff.
To ensure written documentation is accurate and disseminated to other professionals within the Trust, external agencies and carers
To provide a first point of contact for service users, answering the telephone and dealing with enquiries in a sensitive manner to document and convey messages to the team.
To arrange appointments for clinic consultations, home visits and meetings face to face and/or virtual.
To check email accounts process referrals and amend waiting lists for both pulmonary rehabilitation and the post covid service
To attend post covid multi disciplinary team meeting and complete patient templates and any administrative duties post meeting.
To print patient assessment packs including exercise sheets and information booklets
We employ more than 6,000 staff who deliver compassionate care from our two main hospitals,
Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary as well as in community sites, health
centres and in patients’ homes.
We provide community health services, including sexual health services in Calderdale from Calderdale Royal and local health centres. These include Todmorden Health Centre and Broad Street Plaza.
We continue to modernise and invest in our health services to build on our strong reputation. Foundation trusts are public leaders in improving quality in health services. They are part of the NHS – yet decisions about what they do and how they do it are driven by independent boards. Boards
listen to their Council of Governors and respond to the needs of their members – patients, staff and
the local community.
Foundation trusts provide what the health service wants, yet are also free to invest quickly in the
changes to the local community needs.
The post holder will y support the delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Calderdale. They will undertake highly skilled support work with people who have, respiratory disease, and complex multi pathology conditions including long covid.
The work will involve assisting with the Pulmonary Rehabilitation groups face to face and virtual, contacting patients, and assisting with the office administration for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service and post covid service. You will also deliver one to one rehabilitation programmes to patients within their own homes
The post holder will (in allocated time) act as a point of contact for all communication for the team, answering phones and organising diaries

Please refer the Job description for details