Associate Practitioner - Community Respiratory | East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
| Dyddiad hysbysebu: | 12 Mehefin 2025 |
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| Cyflog: | Heb ei nodi |
| Gwybodaeth ychwanegol am y cyflog: | £26,530 - £29,114 per annum |
| Oriau: | Llawn Amser |
| Dyddiad cau: | 12 Gorffennaf 2025 |
| Lleoliad: | Colchester, CO4 9YQ |
| Cwmni: | Colchester Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust |
| Math o swydd: | Cytundeb |
| Cyfeirnod swydd: | 7275828/432-HR364-25 |
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The NEE Respiratory service provide care to patients from our clinics, Pulmonary rehab classes and in their own homes.
We are looking for an associate practitioner to join us as a fixed term post until 31/3/26. This will mainly focus on the provision of Pulmonary rehabilitation within the service, but with some requirement to support with COPD and respiratory physio appointments.
The role will be to support assessment tasks, advice and signposting, and exercise classes, mainly focusing on Pulmonary rehabilitation.
You will also support data entry to the national audit programme.
Work with colleagues across health, social care, education, mental health and voluntary sector to ensure holistic and joined up delivery of care.
Empower patients to make decisions about their own care and encourage them to exercise their rights and choices, signposting them to relevant community and voluntary services and supporting patients carers and assistants with management of risk.
This is a Fixed Term/Secondment until 31st March 2025.
Internal applicants currently employed by ESNEFT will be offered on a secondment basis only
• To assist the registered staff in the delivery of patient care, maximizing the cost-effective use of professional time, both clinically and non-clinically
• To assess patients, provide programme of advice and rehabilitation activities to patients with acute or chronic needs within the competency framework developed by the Physiotherapist or Nurse.
• To organise and run exercise classes in the community and on virtual platforms with the registered staff, maintaining high professional standards.
• Able to work independently without direct supervision, but under instruction from the qualified staff, reporting back patient progress and informing the qualified clinicians of any problems.
• To independently progress treatments of delegated patients with access to guidance and determine when the patients have met their discharge criteria.
• To participate in audit and data collection including coordinating the uploading of data to the national audit portal.
• To keep accurate and up to date records as per departmental guidelines including patient records, meeting records and service documents.
• To carry out related administrative and housekeeping duties as delegated within the service.
• To assist in stock management and report faulty equipment to engineers as per department’s policy.
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We are ESNEFT and we provide hospital and community health services to almost one million people across east Suffolk and north Essex. Our dedicated staff deliver care from acute hospitals in Colchester and Ipswich, community hospitals, surgeries, community clinics and in patients’ own homes.
We are one of the largest NHS organisations in England, employing more than 12,000 staff.
We pride ourselves on supporting our staff. We offer a wide range of training and development opportunities, as well as flexible working options.
Along with supporting you to achieve your career goals we offer a generous pension scheme, unsocial hours payments (where 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.
Our philosophy is thatTime Mattersto everyone. Across the Trust, we concentrate on improving the things we do and removing those which cause time delays for our staff and patients.
We are investing in our commitment to Time Matters with a partnership with leading electronic patient record (EPR) supplier Epic. This digital transformation will bring what’s widely regarded as the world’s best EPR system to ESNEFT, transforming life in hospital for staff and patients.
If you are passionate about patient care and want to develop your skills and knowledge, then we want to hear from you.
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For full details of theresponsibilitiesand dutiesof this role please see the attached job description.
This advert closes on Thursday 26 Jun 2025