Pulmonary Rehabilitation Therapy Assistant Practitioner
A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
We have an exciting opportunity available for a Band 4 Physiotherapy Assistant within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation service. This role is permanent part time, 34 hours per week.
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation service is a team of physiotherapists and assistants led by a band 7 physiotherapist. It has close links with the Suffolk Integrated Neighbourhood Teams, the Suffolk Community COPD team and the heart failure and cardiac rehabilitation services.
The team is busy, adaptable and pride themselves in their holistic care approach. The team provide Pulmonary Rehabilitation (exercise and education courses) to patients with chronic respiratory diseases throughout Ipswich and the East of Suffolk.
You will be actively supported by regular supervision and individual annual appraisal. You will also be expected to work autonomously and on behalf of the patients served by the local area.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we are keen to hear from you.
The role involves assisting in the delivery of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes and assessments, as well as the administrative tasks that go along with managing a group activity. You will also be responsible for coordinating the servicing and maintenance of clinical equipment.
A variety of training can be accessed in order to up-skill and maintain your clinical skills.
As our classes are held all over Suffolk, you must have the ability to drive and have access to a vehicle.
We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services.
Our philosophy is that Time Matters to everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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If your application is successful, interviews provisionally will be held on 11th October 2024.
For full details of the responsibilities and duties of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Friday 4 Oct 2024