Exercise Therapy Assistant

Job summary

We're looking for a dynamic Exercise Therapy Assistant / Rehabilitation Assistant to join our Pulmonary Rehabilitation team. You will be supporting patients with COPD across the city of Southampton. You will work as a key member of the integrated COPD team to assist with effective delivery and development of COPD care.

Pulmonary Rehabilitation is a very important treatment for patients with breathing problems helping them to increase their independence, function, and quality of life.

This is an interesting post where you will be involved in supporting medical clinics, assessing patient before and after their rehabilitation programmes. You will also be working with the clinical staff and other exercise professionals in our team to deliver group and 1:1 pulmonary rehabilitation sessions.

We would love for you to come in and visit us or speak to the team and therefore welcome you to make contact / arrange an informal visit to support your application before the closing date. To arrange this please contact Adrian Jones, Lead Exercise Instructor: adrian.jones@solent.nhs.uk

Main duties of the job

The role will be split between the PR classes and the Consultant clinics.

Clinical skills

*Be able to achieve competencies for the role including inhaler technique assessment, PR delivery and walk test competencies

*Attend health promotion training and support patients to stop smoking

*Carry out basic health care observations permitting completion of NEWS2 and other required objective parameters for the consultation

PR

*Set up PR classes, creating a safe and optimal environment for treatment; clear away equipment and ensure all infection control procedures are followed to decontaminate environment.

*Support clinical staff with patient assessment possibly including welcoming, inducting patients walking tests and completion of patient questionnaires.

*Support clinical staff during the exercise classes, checking in patients, demonstrating, modifying and progressing exercise under supervision of clinical staff.

*Manage a caseload delegated by clinicians, undertaking basic assessments and treatment interventions as agreed with the clinicians.

*Support patient with digital technologies and use of online resources.

Consultant clinics

*Set up clinic environment according to protocols.

*Calibrate and set up spirometer.

*Carry out basic observations and history taking.

*Carry out baseline spirometery after training.

*Ensure clinic lists and other patient related information are available e.g. test results

*Maintain stocks of all patient related paperwork and leaflets at clinic.

About us

Make a difference with us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.