Rehabilitation Assistant/ Health Care Support Worker

Job overview

Any opportunity has risen to join the Pulmonary Rehabilitation team on a secondment (or fixed term) for 6 months as a B3 Therapy assistant. The post holder will work alongside specialist physiotherapists to deliver a high quality service to individuals within a variety of community settings predominantly in gyms. The post is in a countywide service and the postholder will be required to work across the whole of Oxfordshire. This is a full time position and the service runs from 08.30- 16.30hrs Monday to Friday.

Main duties of the job

If you have previous experience providing care or working with people in individual and group settings and have a passion for person centred care, this post may well be for you! We are a dynamic, enthusiastic and forward thinking team who work effectively together to deliver high standards of rehabilitation. An active program of in-service and competency based training is established, with a strong team ethos of learning and development.

Your role will be supporting clinicians to deliver Pulmonary rehabilitation programmes for patients who have chronic breathlessness due to lung disease. You will be expected to help deliver exercise support and advice, as well as supporting the administration of courses to the patients.

• To support qualified clinicians to prepare and run rehabilitation groups for patients with long-term breathing problems.
• To provide planned advice, teaching and instruction to patients and where relevant their carers and other professionals.
• To work within treatment or care programmes with the patient.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• Assist in the delivery of pulmonary rehabilitation exercise programmes under the direction of qualified clinicians.
• Prepare and set up equipment for exercise classes and patient assessments.
• Monitor patients during exercise sessions, recording observations such as oxygen saturation levels, heart rate, breathlessness scores, and exercise performance.
• Escalate concerns regarding patient health, deterioration, or safeguarding issues to the supervising clinician.
• Provide encouragement and motivation to patients to support adherence to rehabilitation programmes.
• Support patients in performing prescribed exercises safely and effectively.
• Assist with individual and group education sessions covering topics such as breathlessness management, inhaler technique, energy conservation, smoking cessation, and healthy lifestyles.
• Support the collection of outcome measures including walking tests, questionnaires, and exercise assessments.
• Maintain infection prevention and control standards within all clinical environments.