Job overview
Rehabilitation Support Worker (Band 3)
Full-time 37.5 hours per week (including weekends on rotation)
Adult Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation Team (ARCARE)
Pulmonary Rehabilitation / Community Virtual Ward
We are seeking a committed, compassionate, and motivated Rehabilitation Support Worker to join our highly specialised Adult Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation Team (ARCARE). This is a fixed-term contract post until 31st of March 2027, offering an excellent opportunity to develop your skills within a dynamic and supportive multi‑disciplinary team.
Working across hospital and community settings in Tower Hamlets, you will play a key role in supporting people living with chronic lung disease, helping them to manage their condition and improve their quality of life. If you enjoy working with people, thrive in varied environments, and want to make a meaningful difference every day, we would love to hear from you.
Fluency in Bengali (Sylheti) is desired but not essential.
This job will include an expectation to be available to work on a shift pattern 7 days, covering 8am to 8pm and may include working weekend.
For further information or informal visits
Marc Rodriguera
Clinical Lead, ARCARE
07863 964158
Main duties of the job
As part of the ARCARE team, you will work alongside Physiotherapists, Nurses, Occupational Therapists, Respiratory Physiologists, Dietitians, Psychologists, and other Support Workers to deliver high‑quality care. Your responsibilities will include:
·Supporting the delivery of the community virtual ward service.
·Assisting Physiotherapists or Nurses with group and individual exercise and teaching sessions in community venues or patients’ homes.
·Supporting the wider MDT in carrying out treatment plans and non‑clinical tasks.
·Assisting with hospital‑based assessments and home visits.
·Progressing treatment plans within agreed frameworks and maintaining your own caseload once trained.
·Providing administrative support, including completing patient records, booking appointments, and answering calls.
·Ensuring equipment is clean, safe, and well maintained.
·With support and training, you will be expected to do home phlebotomy, blood glucose monitoring, spirometry or FENO test, and other point of care testing (capillary blood gas and CRP finger-prick testing).
·This role requires flexibility, and weekend working may be required depending on service needs.
Working for our organisation
Barts Health is one of the largest NHS trusts in the country, and one of Britain’s leading healthcare providers.
The Barts Health group of NHS hospitals is entering an exciting new era on our improvement journey to becoming an outstanding organisation with a world-class clinical reputation. Having lifted ourselves out of special measures, we now have the impetus and breathing space to chart a fresh course in which we are continually striving to improve all our services for patients.
Our vision is to be a high-performing group of NHS hospitals, renowned for excellence and innovation, and providing safe and compassionate care to our patients in east London and beyond. That means being a provider of excellent patient safety, known for delivering consistently high standards of harm-free care and always caring for patients in the right place at the right time. It also means being an outstanding place to work, in which our WeCare values and behaviours are visible to all and guide us in how we work together.
We strive to live by our WeCare values and are committed to promoting inclusion, where every staff member has a sense of belonging. We value our differences and fully advocate, cultivate and support an inclusive working environment.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Our WeCare values guide how we work together and how we care for our patients. Joining ARCARE means becoming part of a team that is passionate about respiratory care, rehabilitation, and empowering patients to live well with long‑term conditions.
What we’re looking for
• Experience working in a team in healthcare setting
• Ability to build rapport quickly with patients and carers
• Strong organisational skills and ability to prioritise a varied workload
• Clear and confident communication skills
• Ability to give precise instructions and support patients effectively
• NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent
• Understanding of disability and ageing
• Friendly, enthusiastic, reliable, and willing to learn
• Physically fit to carry out moderate activity throughout the day, may be carrying some weights equipment and walking around street and public spaces for 15-20 minutes or so.
• Confidence using computers and online platforms for virtual sessions
Person specification
Experience
Essential criteria
1. •working in a team
Desirable criteria
2. •Experience working as a carer or any health care setting
Skills and Communication
Essential criteria
3. •Ability to form good relationships with patients / others over a short period of time
4. •Ability to organize self and others
5. •Ability to prioritise a variable workload
6. •Team player
7. •Good written and verbal communication skills
8. •Able to offer patients / others clear, precise instructions and correct if necessary.
Knowledge and Qualifications
Essential criteria
9. •Good general education
10. •Impact of disability and ageing
Desirable criteria
11. •NVQ level 3 in Health and Social care or Healthcare support, or working towards it
Personal and people development
Essential criteria
12. •Friendly and enthusiastic
13. •Flexible
14. •Punctual and reliable
15. •Good health record
16. •Able to demonstrate a willingness to learn
Desirable criteria
17. •Experience of managing others
Specific requirements
Essential criteria
18. •Physically fit and able to carry out moderate physical activity throughout the day
19. •Able to work Fridays
Desirable criteria
20. •Able to read and speak Bengali
**Visa Sponsorship Information**
Recent changes to UK immigration policy on the Health and Care Visa and Skilled Worker Visa could mean that this role is not eligible for sponsorship or that you may not meet the eligibility criteria.
Sponsorship can only be offered if this post and any individual offered employment meet all the Home Office’s requirements under the UK Skilled Worker visa scheme.
If you are applying from outside the UK or will require sponsorship, please mention this clearly in your application.
To be eligible for sponsorship, the following conditions must be met:
21. Eligible role: The position must be on the UK Skilled Worker visa list. You can check your eligibility here: -.
22. Salary threshold: The role must meet the minimum salary set by the Home Office. Please note that for roles employed under Agenda for Change Terms and Conditions, the High-Cost Area Supplement (HCAS) is not included when calculating the basic salary for the purposes of sponsorship.
23. Skill level: The role must meet the minimum skill requirement of RQF Level 6 or above (graduate level).
24. English language: Applicants must demonstrate English proficiency at CEFR level B2 or higher.
25. Other criteria: Applicants must meet all other criteria as set out by the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI)