Physiotherapy Assistant (Respiratory)

The Countywide Community Respiratory Service, an integral component of the wider Lincolnshire Community Health Services, is responsible for delivering an enhanced quality of care, aiming to streamline the patients' journey in a Primary, Intermediate and Secondary Care setting. Theteam has a key role in delivering services for patients with COPD e.g. Community Pulmonary Rehabilitation (which also accepts non-COPD patients), Complex Case management, Oxygen Assessment, Respiratory Physiotherapy and the Respiratory Virtual Ward.

The post holder will predominantly support the running of the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Service across the south of Lincolnshire but may be required to support Pulmonary Rehabilitation elsewhere in the county at times. There may be times when the post holder will be required to support the other services delivered by the Countywide Community Respiratory Team., To undertake specific skilled support work aiding the rehabilitation of patients with respiratory disease, involving Pulmonary Rehabilitation classes, assisting Respiratory Physiotherapists / Nurses in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Assessments, and to accept respiratory patients referredthrough the Countywide Community Respiratory Services and carry as own workload. The Post holder will treat patients according to agreed set treatment protocols, monitoring progression and making minor alterations to patient treatment programmes as required. They will be required to work unsupervised at times, reporting back patient progress to relevantprofessionals, informing the Physiotherapist or Nurse of any problems or concerns. The post includes administrative duties relevant to the job., LCHS recognises the increasing demand for more flexibility in working practices in order to accommodate the personal goals and commitments that employees experience at different stages during their working lives. Flexible working opportunities such as part-time working, compressed hours, job shares, and hybrid working models can help staff to balance their personal and work commitments. Arrangements can be put in place if it can be shown that the needs of the individual can be balanced with those of the service and the impact on other team members, enabling the Trust to recruit and retain skilled staff, raise staff morale, reduce absenteeism and respond to changing service needs more effectively.

Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust is in the top 25 per cent of all community trusts for overall staff engagement in the 2021 NHS National Staff Survey.