Rehab Co-ordinator

The Symptom Management Service supports people coping with the impact of health conditions in their lives; including, Long Covid, Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia and Chronic Pain. The clinical pathway is focused on working with people to identify and support their needs, in partnership with GP's, psychologists, specialist teams and community services. The Rehabilitation co-ordinator will play a crucial role in supporting patients with energy limiting condition and chronic pain, working alongside the co-ordinators in the MSK Hub and in partnership with Leisure and NERS.

Main duties of the job

The Rehab Co-ordinator is a key member of the Symptom Management Service administrative and clinical team.

The post holder will support the work of the Symptom Management Service pathway in the development of additional supported self-management approaches.

The post holder will take responsibility for collaborating with Health Board clinical teams, Local Authority leisure and National Exercise on Referral Teams (NERS) to support the rollout self-management approaches to people with both long term and energy limiting conditions.

Will be responsible for supporting people to access self-management approaches, for example ESCAPE Pain, combined dietetics and physical activity groups

The post holder will work independently to defined policies and procedures and be responsible for managing own workload.

About us

Aneurin Bevan University Health Board is a multi-award-winning NHS organisation with a passion for caring. The Health Board provides an exceptional workplace where you can feel trusted and valued. Whatever your specialty or stage in your career, we have opportunities for everyone to start, grow and build your career. The health board provides integrated acute, primary and community care serving a population of 650,000 and employing over 16,000 staff.

We offer a fantastic benefits package and extensive training and development opportunities with paid mandatory training, excellent in-house programmes, opportunities to complete recognised qualifications and professional career pathways including a range of management development programmes. We offer flexible working and promote a healthy work life balance, provide occupational health support and an ambitious plan for a Wellbeing Centre of Excellence to support you at work.

Our Clinical Futures strategy continues to enhance and promote care closer to home as well as high quality hospital care when needed. Join us on our journey to pioneer new ways of working and deliver a world-class healthcare service fit for the future.

Job responsibilities

You will be able to find a full Job description and Person Specification attached within the supporting documents or please click Apply now to view in Trac.

The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.

Person Specification Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 health and fitness qualification PLUS knowledge of specialist functional terms, organisational policies and procedures and knowledge and experience to deal with non-routine issues such as problem solving for an area of work or developing alternative or additional procedures equivalent to Diploma level to include evidence of managing and updating patient information and content
• Health or fitness qualification or experience

Experience

• Previous experience of working directly with the public on health-related behaviour change
• Previous experience in a health and/or social care environment
• Experience of leisure services risk management processes
• Knowledge of NHS clinical information systems in use across the Health Board (CWS, WPAS, Adastra etc)

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Business and Service Improvement Manager

£27,898 to £30,615 a yearper annum pro rata