An opportunity has arisen to join the service to cover a secondment for 12 months working as an Exercise Physiologist in the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Team.
The role will involve assessing patients with a chronic respiratory condition, supporting pulmonary rehabilitation exercise programmes and delivering education to patients in an 1:1 setting and a group setting .
The role will be supported by a Senior Exercise Physiologist in Pulmonary Rehabilitation. This is an excellent opportunity to develop skills.
Assessing patients via telephone and face to face
Working with an online system to complete comprehensive notes
Prescribe exercises for patients following an assessment
Digital Pulmonary Rehab Platform
Good case load management
Completing Discharge Assessments
To work as part of the Wirral Integrated Respiratory service in the delivery of Pulmonary Rehabilitation. The role involves ensuring high quality, evidence based rehabilitation is provided to the service users on the Wirral. The role will support the delivery of evidence based rehab to service users with strong promotion of personalised, placed based rehab for individuals with an overall aim to support the development of a lifelong commitment to exercise.
All new colleagues can expect to receive a warm and friendly Wirral welcome from the very first time they make contact with us. We are described as “competent and caring staff” by our patients.
Wirral University Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust is situated on The Wirral peninsula which has a stunning coastline and beautiful countryside surroundings, with great activities for its residents.
We are one of the largest and busiest acute Trusts in the North West of England, comprising of the Wirral’s only Emergency Department. We provide a high quality range of acute care services and employ over 6,000 staff, who serve a population of approximately 400,000 people across Wirral, Ellesmere Port, Neston, North Wales and the wider North West footprint.
We have approximately 855 beds trust-wide and our financial turnover is in excess of £337m.
The Wirral is easily accessible with excellent transport links including motorway, train, bus or ferry and within easy reach to the major cities of Liverpool, Chester and Manchester as well as neighbouring North Wales.
Please see attached Job Description for further information about the Exercise Physiologist position available at WUTH.
