Job overview

Assistant Cardiac Rehabilitation Practitioner, Band 4 up to 30hrs a week across site -12 month Fixed Term

The  NCIC east cardiac rehabilitation team provide services to patients from the Carlisle and Eden area. The team currently provide Cardiac rehab at 3 sites – Cumberland Infirmary , Penrith Hospital and West Cumberland Hospital . Our main aim is to promote and facilitate an optimum return to function for all patients referred to the service including promotion of self-management/ referral for phase 4 rehab on discharge from the service.

The post holders will work as part of the Cardiac rehabilitation service at Cumberland Infirmary, Carlisle, and West Cumberland Hospital which is jointly run with specialist cardiac rehab nurses and physiotherapists from both sites. Work will involve maintaining a high standard of patient care by planning, undertaking and evaluating clinical interventions of management within a framework established by the Clinical lead.

Main duties of the job

The post holder will be responsible for a manageable caseload within the Cardiac rehab team, carrying out assessment and treatment for patients with a wide range of cardiac conditions. They will also take an active role in promoting self-management and third sector services once patients have finished their cardiac rehab programme.

The post holder will independently organise and manage the flow of patients through phase 3 of the cardiac rehabilitation programmes.

The post-holder will undertake administrative duties including searching for investigation results, appointment booking and photocopying.

Working for our organisation

At NCIC, we have an ambition to deliver outstanding hospital and health services to half a million people. Established on 1st October 2019, the Trust is creating a centre of excellence in providing rural and remote healthcare and provides a wide range of community and acute services throughout north Cumbria and beyond. We're responsible for delivering over 70 services across 15 main locations and we employ more than 6,500 members of staff.

Our 5 key principles demonstrate our belief in the delivery of 'safe, high quality care every time'.

• Being a clinically led organisation

• Quality and safety at the heart

• A positive patient experience every time

• A great place to work

• Managing our money well

As an organisation we are serious about supporting a diverse workforce that reflects our local community and are very much focused on being an inclusive and compassionate place to work.

Across the North East and North Cumbria we are working together to deliver our ambition to be the greenest region in England by 2030. There is an expectation for all staff to support this by familiarising yourself with the Trust's sustainability initiatives such as waste and recycling, going paperless, videoconferencing, sustainable transport and others.

We encourage you to think about what you can do as an individual and within your team to contribute in to embedding carbon reduction into the everyday running of our organisation.