As a Band 4 Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Instructor you’ll join a team who are focused on delivering impeccable customer service to our staff and service users to really make our service users and staff feel the difference.
The Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Instructor’s role is to support the Specialist Respiratory Physiotherapists and Nurses in providing a range of care and therapy interventions for people who have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD), Bronchiectasis and other chronic lung conditions.
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.
On-going data input is required for these classes which enable statistics to be collated from this.
The job holder is also expected to help provide administrative support to the administration staff. This includes general office duties such as photocopying, filing and monitoring stock and stock maintenance.
The job holder will hold their own caseload of patients requiring home exercises
Provide assistance to the oxygen nurses by assisting with oxygen assessments.
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.
Package DescriptionAs a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Instructor, you’ll be part of our valued team at St Martins Hospital.
You will feel valued as a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Exercise Instructor within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:
A salary of £25,200 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
Main Responsibilities
Set up and run pulmonary rehabilitation exercise programs in various locations, possibly including virtual/online classes.
Have an active role in booking patient appointments for pulmonary rehabilitation 1/2/1 assessments and classes
Accept delegated tasks from the team leader or senior physiotherapist.
Manage & prioritise own caseload without direct supervision but with guidance from senior colleagues.
To assist the service user in achieving person centered goals, assisting them in achieving their desired outcomes and to monitor progress, reviewing intervention as necessary.
Use judgement and initiative to produce exercise programmes, develop them and see them through to completion.
Evaluate outcomes and produce discharge reports.
Liaise with external agencies as appropriate.
The Ideal CandidateEssential
Registered with the Register of Exercise Professionals at Level 3, and /or a Sports Science degree
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
Excellent organisational skills.
Demonstrate effective team working skills.
Good levels of IT literacy including use of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook.
Good IT skills for delivering online sessions by MS Teams and Webex
Experience and understanding of providing support and interactive training to group participants, colleagues and professional groups.
Confidence to work using own initiative under some supervision.
Experience of developing relationships with external agencies and organisations (partnership working)
An understanding of the legislation that applies to care and health work
About The CompanyWe 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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