Rehabilitation Specialist

Rehabilitation Specialist

Exeter Hospital Fitness Permanent contract Full time

Up to 27985.32 per annum depending on skills and experience

37.5 hours per week ( Part Time hours considered)

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Specialist to help us build a healthier nation. We are looking for a Rehabilitation Specialist who will deliver Nuffield Health Rehabilitation Programmes utilising the unique Nuffield Health pathway championing the Charitable Purpose. This role will initially be focused around our Long Term Conditions Programme and the programme will be run out of a community gym site partnered with the Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital.

This role will play a crucial part in Nuffields long-term vision for clinical rehabilitation and will require the Rehabilitation Specialist to undertake in person facilitation of exercise emotion wellbeing support healthy eating and goal setting to aid the participants recovery. The pathway will involve weekly 1to1s group exercise classes promote goal setting and self-directed activity.

You will demonstrate leadership and influencing skills be a good communicator organised and self-motived. As part of this role you will work collaboratively onsite centrally and with our Charity team and our beneficiaries. You will need excellent IT skills and hold a Level 3 Personal trainer qualification which is essential for the role. Ideally you will have previous experience working in a Rehabilitation Specialist position and an understanding of rehabilitation along with potentially a Bsc (Hons) in Sports Rehabilitation (desired not essential).

As a Rehabilitation Specialist you will:

• Organise and run a series of rolling 12-week rehabilitation programmes.

• Facilitate and deliver both in person group exercise classes with people that have varying degrees of abilities and physical function.

• Be able to promote self-directed activity using pre-recorded on demand classes and a journal which will aid in the participants being able to self-manage their condition after the 12-week Programme.

• Capability to re-calibrate exercises and intensities based on regular improvements demonstrated by changes in both effort and performance.

• Identify any deterioration of participants and if necessary follow internal escalation processes ensuring reporting is processed within a specific timeframe and that outcome data is accurately captured which is essential in supporting our Charitable Purpose and tracking and monitoring participants progress.

• Engage in 1to1 telephone conversations each week with every participant to offer coaching in terms of setting short term and long-term goals understanding restrictions monitoring progress understanding and offering emotional wellbeing support and empowering self-directed activity.

Skills required:

• Problem-solving and diagnostic skills

• Organisational ability

• Effective decision-making skills

• Time and resource management

• Experience working with vulnerable adults

• Qualifications showing good English and number skills

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We want you to love coming to work feeling healthy happy and valued. Thats why weve developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here you can choose from a range of fitness lifestyle health and fitness wellbeing rewards such as free gym membership health assessments retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health we take care of whats important to you.

Nuffield Health Exeter Hospital

The Exeter Nuffield hospital is based next to the RD&E hospital in Wonford Exeter. The hospital has 2 theatres as well as a hybrid cardiac catheter laboratory/theatre and an Endoscopy suite. There are two ward areas: an inpatient area with 21 beds and a day-case ward with 12 beds. We also have a busy outpatient department pharmacy physiotherapy and radiology department including an MRI scanner. We specialise in elective orthopaedic and spinal surgery cardiology including invasive procedures general surgery plastics and cosmetic surgery ENT and gynaecology. The Hospital has a MAKO robot that undertakes some of the joint replacement surgery which we have become well known for in this field of surgery.

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