Respiratory Health Care Support Worker (Developmental Role)

The Respiratory Team is expanding and looking for a motivated Healthcare Support Worker who is keen to develop their skills and progress into an Associate Practitioner role within our supportive team.

This is an exciting opportunity to gain experience across a range of respiratory services while supporting the delivery of high-quality, evidence-based care for patients with respiratory conditions across Mid Essex.

You will work alongside experienced clinicians, supporting spirometry and diagnostic assessments, pulmonary rehabilitation classes, the oxygen service, capillary blood gas testing, and the Virtual Respiratory Ward.

Full training and support will be provided, including opportunities for professional development and the potential to achieve ARTP certification in spirometry as part of your progression.

Main duties of the job

The aim of the team is to provide comprehensive respiratory care to patients in the Mid Essex community with long term Respiratory conditions.

The purpose of the role is tosupport the Respiratory team to ensure that effective, sympathetic and individualised pathways of patient care.

The successful candidate will be involved in training to complete Spirometry , Pulmonary rehabilitation, Oxygen assessments and assisting with the virtual respiratory ward.

Provide is a Community Interest Company (social enterprise). We deliver a broad range of health and social care services in the community, and are committed to making sure that they are safe, responsive and of high quality. Provide is owned by its employees and has primarily social objectives. Any profits we make are reinvested into the local community or back into delivering services.

We work from a variety of community settings, such as community hospitals, community clinics, schools, nursing homes and primary care settings, as well as within people's homes to provide more than 40 services to children, families and adults across Essex, Dorset, East Anglia and the North of England.

A highly respected, award winning health and social care provider. We expect our staff to demonstrate and uphold our values at all times:

Vision:Transforming Lives

Values:Care, Innovation and Compassion

Mission:An ambitious, employee owned social enterprise, growing in size and influence. We transform lives by treating, caring and educating people.

Provide is an equal opportunity employer committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills, proud to have LGBT+, Ethnic Minority and Men's Networks.