Pulmonary Rehabilitation Pathway Co-ordinator

**Pulmonary Rehabilitation Pathway Co-ordinator**:
**NHS AfC: Band 4**:
**Main area**
- Pulmonary Rehabilitation Pathway Co-ordinator Post
- **Grade**
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- **Contract**
- Permanent
- **Hours**
- Full time
- Part time
- Home or remote working

37.5 hours per week
- **Job ref**
- 201-23-784**Site**
- Helston Community Hospital
- **Town**
- Helston
- **Salary**
- £25,147 - £27,596 pro rata /per annum
- **Salary period**
- Yearly
- **Closing**
- 13/06/2023 23:59Thank you for your interest in joining us at **Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust.**

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**_ The successful applicant will be an NHS employee and may therefore have contact with vulnerable service users. During the COVID-19 pandemic, it has been necessary to take significant steps to protect the health and safety of our staff, service users and those attending our sites. Unless exempt, we encourage and support staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against COVID-19._**

**Job overview**:
This is an exciting new post, streamlining the pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) service pathway across the county.

The aim of this post will be to increase the uptake and completion of PR by ensuring high quality, appropriate referrals are received, providing a personalised care approach to rehabilitation for people living with a long-term lung condition and sign posting to living well and self-care/management choices where appropriate.

You will work closely with the North and East, Mid and West respiratory teams and understand the PR offer provided in each area. You will have a broad knowledge of the PCN social prescribing services that will connect patients to services and support that will enable them to maintain their health and wellbeing, or support behaviour change to achieve a healthy lifestyle.

This post will co-ordinate all PR referrals received for the countywide services and could be based anywhere across the county.

**Main duties of the job**:

- Communicate and negotiate effectively with all members of the multi-agency team i.e., health, social care, care providers and voluntary sector.
- Communicate sensitive information with patients or carers which requires diplomacy and address any barriers to understanding.
- Be able to manage a variety of complex situations as they arise.
- To collate and organise information required to support the PR assurance calls with NHSE.
- To be able to use motivational interviewing techniques/coaching to enable change and self-management with people living with a long-term lung condition.
- Coordinate the PR referral pathway for people living with a long-term lung condition.
- To support staff/MDT to complete the appropriate referral process for PR within Cornwall.
- Advising staff on reporting any safeguarding issues, taking appropriate immediate action and risk management, completing the appropriate paperwork as needed.
- Good problem-solving skills, ability to think creatively to increase the uptake and completion of PR.
- To act as a referral coordinator and navigator for patients referred to PR.

**Working for our organisation**:
We’re an NHS community and mental health provider Trust based in Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. We deliver community and hospital-based care to improve people’s physical and mental health. We also provide specialist support to people with dementia or a learning disability.

We are a people organisation and people matter