Rehabilitation Assistant in Pulmonary Rehabilitation

A Vacancy 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. Utilising the SystmOne clinical information system to retrieve patient information, register referrals and discharges, deal with tasks, type and send letters. Preparing responses/letters/acknowledgments and requests for the Pulmonary Rehabilitation clinical lead and therapy staff. Ensuring written documentation is accurate and disseminated to other professionals within the Trust, external agencies and carers. Providing 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. Arranging appointments for clinic consultations, home visits and meetings face to face and/or virtual. Checking email accounts, processing referrals and amending waiting lists for both pulmonary rehabilitation and the post covid service. Attending post covid multidisciplinary team meetings and completing patient templates and any administrative duties post meeting. Printing 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 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. This advert closes on Sunday 12 Jan 2025. Proud member of the Disability Confident employer scheme A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident. #J-18808-Ljbffr