Assistant Practitioner - Community Respiratory Service
| Posting date: | 12 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £24,625 - £25,674 per annum prorata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 July 2025 |
| Location: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Company: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Job type: | Contract |
| Job reference: | 7275606/432-HR363-25 |
Summary
A Vacancy at East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust.
The integrated community respiratory team provide a number of services – COPD (including virtual ward), Home oxygen, Pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory physio.
We are a team of nurses, physios and skills assistant staff. We cover all of North East 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 is a fixed term post until 31/3/26. If an internal applicant is successful you would be offered position as secondment.
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.
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
For full details of the duties & responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025
The integrated community respiratory team provide a number of services – COPD (including virtual ward), Home oxygen, Pulmonary rehabilitation and respiratory physio.
We are a team of nurses, physios and skills assistant staff. We cover all of North East 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 is a fixed term post until 31/3/26. If an internal applicant is successful you would be offered position as secondment.
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.
One of the largest Trusts in East Anglia, East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust (ESNEFT) provide hospital and community health services to people living across a wide geographical area. We deliver care from two main hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, six community hospitals and in patients’ own homes. You will be joining a team of almost 12,000 amazing colleagues providing care to approximately a million people.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (if applicable), 27 days annual leave on commencement (pro rata) and access to a range of NHS discounts. Our Staff Health and Wellbeing programme offer a variety of services. We offer a range of flexible working opportunities.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which do not work or cause time delays for our staff and patients.
To support our employees to achieve their career aspirations you may be eligible to obtain a qualification via an apprenticeship. All successful applicants will be required to undertake a skills review to facilitate this. For full details please see the attached Apprenticeship Handbook.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge then we are keen to hear from you.
Find out about living and working with us -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkPu7HphU8A
For full details of the duties & responsibilities of this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025