Rehabilitation Assistant

As a Rehabilitation Assistant, you’ll join a team who are focused on delivering impeccable customer service to really make our service users and staff feel the difference.

The job of the Rehabilitation Assistant is to support the Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapists and Nurses in providing a range of care and therapy interventions for people who have Long Term Lung Conditions including Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Bronchiectasis.

To provide support for assessments and treatments in Pulmonary Rehabilitation.

To provide administrative support for running the Pulmonary Rehabilitation courses. This includes organising assessments and clinics, typing letters and liaising with patients on the telephone.

To provide support for the Respiratory Physiotherapists assisting the Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes, helping patients to engage with the programme and exercises.

To support and help deliver educational sessions as part of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation programme.

To support planned interventions and therapeutic rehabilitation programmes, under supervision, with adults suffering from COPD, Bronchiectasis, and other lung conditions.

To have an important role in the promotion of health and prevention of secondary complications and the provision of support and advice for people with COPD and Bronchiectasis.

To support other parts of the service including the Home Oxygen Service with patient monitoring, inhaler techniques and equipment management.

To provide support to the administration staff within the team. This may include general office duties such as photocopying, filing and monitoring stock and stock maintenance.

You will be based primarily at St Martin's Hospital, Bath, although we do work in patients' homes and offer pulmonary rehabilitation classes in church halls around B&NES.

Main Responsibility

• To set up and support Pulmonary Rehabilitation exercise programmes in various locations, possibly including virtual/on-line classes.
• Manage and prioritise own caseload without direct supervision but with guidance from senior colleagues.
• To support therapeutic interventions with patients, on an individual basis, in their homes.
• To assist the service user in achieving person centred goals, assisting them in achieving their desired outcomes and to monitor progress, reviewing intervention as necessary.
• To evaluate outcomes and produce discharge reports.
• Have an active role in booking patient appointments for pulmonary rehabilitation assessments and classes.
• Accept delegated tasks from the team leader or senior physiotherapist.
• To liaise with outside agencies as appropriate.
• To support the team with service promotion engaging with stakeholders.

The Ideal Candidate

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Excellent organisational skills.
• Demonstrate effective team working skills.
• A desire to work in health and care.
• Good levels of literacy including the use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
• Confidence to work using own initiative under some supervision.
• An understanding of the legislation that applies to care and health work.
• Previous rehabilitation or care experience working in a healthcare environment, either hospital or community based.
• Experience of explaining information to a range of work colleagues.
• Experience of multidisciplinary and lone working.
• Experience of developing relationships with external agencies and organisations (partnership working).

Other requirements:

Valid UK driving licence and access to a car on working days to undertake the job effectively.

Package Description

As a Rehabilitation Assistant, you’ll be part of our valued team at St Martins Hospital.

You will feel valued as a Senior Rehabilitation Assistant within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £23,100 pro rata with access to our group pension.
• Free tea and coffee at your base location.
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you.
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates.
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing – from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling.
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our ‘Outstanding’ learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise.
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care – backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year.
• The pride of working for an organisation committed to the highest clinical and quality standards: with a majority of our rated services holding “good” or “outstanding” ratings from the Care Quality Commission.

About the Company

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK's leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We're committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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• Job Category: HCRG - Allied Health Professionals
• Business Unit: HCRG - Bath and North East Somerset
• Location: St Martin's Hospital, Bath, United Kingdom