Job summary
- Main area
- Community
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 3
- Contract
- Secondment: 12 months
- Hours
- Part time - 30.5 hours per week (Monday to Friday 8-4pm one day off)
- Job ref
- 372-COM2679
- Employer
- Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Dean Clough Cardiac Rehabilitation Team Community Healthcare 4th Floor Bowling Mill Dean Clough Mills HX3 5AQ
- Town
- Halifax
- Salary
- £25,760 - £27,476 pro rota
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 09/04/2026 23:59
- Interview date
- 22/04/2026
Employer heading
Rehabilitation assistant in Cardiac rehabilitation
NHS AfC: Band 3
Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust (CHFT) are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of any protected characteristics.
We are committed to recruiting to our values. Leading One Culture of Care underpins our values by creating an environment, tone and behaviours across all parts of the Trust that are fundamentally rooted in compassionate care.
We are open to considering a wide range of flexible working arrangements. There are opportunities to flex the days of the week, hours and times of work and place of work including: part-time, job-share, flexible working hours and the possibility to work from home when appropriate. Please talk to us during the interview process to discuss any flexibility that you may require.
We received our Silver Award from the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme which is helping actively promote SaBRE - Supporting Britain’s Reservists and Employers. This means that we provided its statement of intent to support all Defence personnel and we welcome application to work for us.
Our Future Plans
The Department of Health and Social Care has awarded capital funding to invest in local health services at both Calderdale Royal Hospital and Huddersfield Royal Infirmary. This is a significant investment and an opportunity to enhance services for our populations in Calderdale and Huddersfield and West Yorkshire for generations to come. To find out more, please visit https://future.cht.nhs.uk/
Job overview
The post holder will be part of the Community Cardiac Rehabilitation Service, based within the Calderdale Cardiac Rehabilitation Service. They will carry out administrative duties to support the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team and contribute to the delivery of cardiac rehabilitation across Calderdale. In addition, they will provide highly skilled support to individuals who have been referred to the Cardiac Rehabilitation Team.
The work will involve assisting with the Cardiac Rehabilitation groups, contacting patients, and assisting with the office administration for the Cardiac Rehabilitation Service.
The post holder will (in allocated time) act as a point of contact for all communication for the team.
Main duties of the job
The post holder will be working under indirect supervision of the registered practitioners in the team. This will involve taking responsibility for an identified and delegated workload following screening and /or assessment by a registered practitioner. The post holder will undertake delegated work following a rehabilitation plan devised by the registered practitioner and will be expected to make minor adjustments to this following agreed protocols and guidelines, liaising with the registered practitioner as necessary. Work will be carried out in the Cardiac Rehabilitation Base and community venues.
- Assisting with exercise assessments of cardiac patients
- Assisting with and or completing the exercise assessments at point of discharge
- Monitoring progress and feeding back to the registered practitioner.
- Making minor adjustments to treatment programmes within pre-determined limits
- Assisting registered practitioners with complex treatments.
- Assisting with group exercise and advice sessions.
Working for our organisation
CHFT is an integrated Trust of 6,500+ colleagues providing hospital and community services to patients and communities across Calderdale and Kirklees. We are rated as ‘Good’ by the Care Quality Commission, are a top performing Trust for Elective Recovery, Emergency and Cancer Care and widely acknowledged as a national digital lead when it comes to caring for people across our local and regional systems.
Our people are at the core of everything we do, hence our commitment to One Culture of Care. Our focus is to care for and support each other in order to provide outstanding compassionate care to our patients. That is why we are looking for an inclusive collaborative, creative, innovative and compassionate leader to join us in this role.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
· To utilise the SystmOne clinical information system to retrieve patient information, register referrals and discharges, deal with tasks, type and send letters.
· prepare responses/letters/acknowledgments and requests for the Cardiac Rehabilitation clinical lead and therapy staff.
· To ensure written documentation is accurate and disseminated to other professionals within the Trust, external agencies and carers
· To provide a first point of contact for service users, answering the telephone and dealing with enquiries in a sensitive manner to document and convey messages to the team.
· To arrange appointments for clinic consultations, home visits and meetings face to face and/or virtual.
· To process audit statistics for relevant personnel and assist with inputting audit data onto the ongoing national audit for cardiac rehab
· To check email accounts, process referrals and amend waiting lists for cardiac rehab
· If required to be present at long covid MDT meetings to take notes and complete templates within patients notes.
· To print patient assessment packs including exercise sheets and information booklets
· To set up and clean down the group venues both before and after groups.
Person specification
QUALIFICATIONS / TRAINING
Essential criteria
- English and Math GCSE grade 9-2 (A*-E) or equivalent or high level of literacy and numeracy skills demonstrated within application
- Competence based level 2 Qualification e.g. NVQ or Diploma in Care or Care Certificate Standard – demonstrating the 15/16 standard have been meet and signed by an employer.
- Willingness to undertake any training or development relevant to the role
- Moving and Handling
- Infection Control
- Customer Care
- Competent / able to evidence the completion of Health Care Assistant core competencies.
Desirable criteria
- Competent in venepuncture, cannulation and simple wound dressings
- Competence based level 3 Qualification e.g. NVQ or Diploma in Healthcare Support or equivalent experience.
KNOWLEDGE, EXPERIENCE & EXPERTISE
Essential criteria
- Previous experience with a healthcare setting (18 months
- Insight into the roles of responsibilities of the post
- Demonstrate a commitment to a caring profession
- Understand the importance of record keeping
- Literacy skills
- IT skills
Desirable criteria
- Experience of record keeping
- Experience in undertaking point of care testing
- Experience in application of basic dressing techniques
COMMUNICATION AND RELATIONSHIPS (INCLUDING MANAGEMENT RESPONSIBILITIES)
Essential criteria
- Access to transport to undertake multiple visits to patient’s place of residence
- Ability to work as a team member
- Ability to work in a busy environment
- Able to use own initiative
- Good communication skills
- Aware of own limitations/ level of competence
Desirable criteria
- Plan delegated workload
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Clair Jones
- Job title
- Cardiac Rehabilitation Team Leader
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07909290265
- Additional information
Catherine Hawksworth
Cardiac Rehabilitation Specialist Nurse
07788320354
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