Clinical Support Worker - Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Job summary

The Morecambe Bay Respiratory Network in conjunction with the Community Respiratory Service, have secured funding until April 2026, to trial a number of new services across Morecambe Bay, including (but not limited to) the provision of additional localised pulmonary rehabilitation programs.

This role offers you a permanent contract with our Trust (UHMBT), and a role aligned with the Community Respiratory Service until 31st March 2026. Further funding for us to continue these Respiratory services beyond April 2026, will be dependent on the success of this trial period.

So, if you have a passion for respiratory care and want to help us to improve the lives of people living with respiratory disease across Morecambe Bay, and if you are up for a challenge and want to help us make these new services a success - then this role could be for you!

This full time clinical support worker role, will predominately support the delivery of our Barrow rolling programmes of Pulmonary Rehabilitation, with some cover each week to either our Kendal or Carnforth programme.

Main duties of the job

Working alongside a team of Physiotherapists, OTs, Nurses and administrators, as part of the Community Respiratory Service, you will assist in the delivery of our Rolling programmes of Pulmonary Rehabilitation (PR).

Specifically, you will assist the registered staff with the planning, organising and delivery of PR assessments, groups and final assessments.

This will involve:

• Phoning patients to support their journey through PR
• Supporting patients to complete health questionnaires
• Taking basic clinical observations as part of fitness testing
• Conducting (under the supervision of a Physiotherapist) fitness testing (walk tests, strength tests, functional assessments) as part of the PR initial and final assessments
• Working in a compassionate, respectful and professional manner with patients, their relatives and cares and staff, role modelling our Trust values and behaviours.
• Cleaning of equipment and complying with health and safety processes to ensure safe delivery of PR for our patients
• Writing up clinical notes using EMIS web clinical records system
• Entering clinical data into our Audit spreadsheet
• Moving and handling of PR equipment
• Some general clinical administration tasks as needed (e.g. collating patient education materials)
• Supporting the staffing cover and delivery of PR exercise classes as needed

About us

UHMBT Integrated Community Service provides care outside of the hospital setting, including community locations and people's own homes.

UHMBT hospital services operate from three main hospitals-Furness General Hospital (FGH) in Barrow, the Royal Lancaster Infirmary (RLI), and Westmorland General Hospital (WGH) in Kendal, as well as a number of community healthcare premises including Millom Hospital and GP Practice, Queen Victoria Hospital in Morecambe, and Ulverston Community Health Centre.FGH and the RLI have a range of General Hospital services, with full Emergency Departments, Critical/Coronary Care units and various Consultant-led services.WGH provides a range of General Hospital services, together with an Urgent Treatment Centre, that can help with a range of non-life threatening conditions such as broken bones and minor illnesses.All three main hospitals provide a range of planned care including outpatients, diagnostics, therapies, day case and inpatient surgery. In addition, a range of local outreach services and diagnostics are provided from community facilities across Morecambe Bay.