Assistant Practitioner - Community Respiratory Service

Job overview

The integrated community respiratory team provide a number of services – COPD, Home oxygen, Pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory physio.

We are a team of nurses, physios and skills assistant staff. We cover all of NE Essex so access to a car and a driving licence is essential.

We provide clinic based, class based and home based care, with the aim of supporting people to have quality of life and be able to self manage their conditions.

We are seeking an assistant practitioner to support the service, particularly with our Pulmonary rehabilitation service. This will involve supporting assessments, running of the class, end assessments, and equipment management.

You will also be trained to support patients with set up of MyCOPD, and to visit them to educate on techniques such as breathlessness management, chest clearance, inhaler technique and the issue and return/decontamination of loan nebulisers.

Proposed Interview date: 3rd November 2026

Main duties of the job

• Work within the integrated community respiratory team, contributing to delivery of the integrated care plan.
• Deliver programmes of nursing and therapeutic activities tailored to individuals and groups within a framework laid down by the registered clinicians
• Support patients with advice, information, persuasion and direction to community resources to encourage self-management and ongoing independence
• Provide support carers.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

For full details of the duties & responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.

Applicant requirements

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.