Respiratory Assistant - London, United Kingdom - North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
Description
An opportunity has arisen to work within the Enfield Community Respiratory Team as a Respiratory Assistant on a 6 month fixed term with a likelihood to extend the contract.
We are a multidisciplinary team who provide support and self management advice to patients in Enfield who have chronic lung disease such as COPD.
Your role will be supporting our respiratory physiotherapists in delivery and development of our pulmonary rehabilitation service.You will also work with patients on a one to one basis giving advice about breathlessness management and chest clearance under the guidance of the qualified staff.
You must have a full UK driving license and access to a car for working hours - Mon - Fri x 7.
- To perform home visits unsupervised to continue ongoing treatment programs as prescribed by a qualified member of staff following care plans. Access to advice and support from a senior physiotherapist/nurse is available as required, either directly or by phone. Clinical work is routinely monitored.
- To perform basic respiratory assessment of delegated patients. To assist the respiratory physiotherapist with running the pulmonary rehabilitation and assisting the respiratory team to provide the best evidence-based care to the patients in the community.
- To contribute to the delivery of health promotion activities within the service and in accordance with Trust objectives.
- To undertake administrative, clerical and other duties that support the effective delivery of the physiotherapy service to patients.
- To undertake assessments for home equipment as a trusted assessor.
North Mid is part of North Central London integrated care system - consisting of the NHS and Local authority organisations in Camden, Islington, Barnet, Enfield and Haringey.
As with other ICS's, we are working increasingly closely with partners and indeed many of our financial and performance objectives are measured at this system level.
Whilst all organisations remain as standalone, statutory bodies we have an ICS infrastructure for making shared decisions and agreeing shared approaches.
We are proud of our staff and want to ensure their training allows them to provide excellent clinical care.We are also a training unit for medical students from UCL and St George's University Grenada, and for nursing and midwifery students from Middlesex and City Universities.
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To assist with performing initial assessments including shuttle walk test/six-minute walk test or any other exercise tolerance tests as appropriate in the community and patients home.
To assist the patients to complete outcome measures pre and post course, recording observations and maintaining and updating the database.
To be able to do warm up and cool down exercises and demonstrate the pulmonary rehabilitation exercises to patients alongside respiratory physiotherapist.
To be able to continue the exercise/respiratory program prescribed by the respiratory physiotherapist at the patients home and follow-up classes in the community setting.
To assist the wider respiratory team in delivering patient centered care in clinic or at the patient's home.
To assess and where appropriate order equipment to assist the patient to carry out activities of daily living to maintain independence.
To use a range of verbal and non-verbal communication tools to communicate effectively with patients and carers to progress rehabilitation and treatment programmes.
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