Rehabilitation Specialist

Rehabilitation Specialist

Nuffield Health Chingford Fitness and Wellbeing Gym Permanent Part-Time

Up to £27,310.40 pro rata depending on experience

15 hours per week

Nuffield Health is the largest healthcare charity in the UK, made up of our award winning hospitals, fitness and wellbeing centres, medical centres and workplace wellbeing services.

As a Rehabilitation Specialist at our Chingford Fitness and Wellbeing Gym, you will deliver Nuffield Health Rehabilitation Programs utilizing the unique Nuffield Health pathway, championing the Charitable Purpose.

This role will play a crucial part in Nuffield's long term vision for clinical rehabilitation and will require you to undertake remote (digital) and in person facilitation of exercise, emotion wellbeing support, healthy eating, and goal setting to aid the participants' recovery. The pathway will involve weekly 1 to 1's, group exercise classes (virtual and in person), promote goal settings and self directed activity.

Responsibilities

• Run a series of 12 week rehabilitation programs.
• Facilitate and deliver both live stream and in person group exercise classes, with people of varying abilities and physical functions.
• Promote self directed activity using pre recorded on demand classes and a journal which will aid participants in self managing their condition after the 12 week program.
• Re calibrate exercises and intensities based on regular improvements demonstrated by changes in effort and performance.
• Identify any deterioration of participants and, where necessary, follow internal escalation processes.
• Deliver or facilitate various exercise modalities from circuit training to strength training, while working within people's varying physical activities.
• Work flexibly and have good organisational skills to balance multiple program groups (cohorts) at once and process new referrals.
• Engage in 1 to 1 telephone conversations each week with every participant to offer coaching in terms of setting new short and long term goals, understanding restrictions, monitoring progress, offering emotional wellbeing support and empowering self directed activity.
• Ensure that outcome data is accurately captured, essential in supporting our Charitable Purpose and tracking and monitoring participants' progress.
• Respond to the ongoing requirements of the program to ensure successful delivery of each cohort.
• Have experience and an understanding of rehabilitation (desired not essential).

Qualifications

• Leadership & influencing skills
• Good communication
• Calm under pressure
• Motivational and engaging personality
• Self starter with high levels of drive, energy and commitment.
• Strong organisational skills, with ability to manage time and workload effectively.
• Personal values that drive performance with clarity, transparency and fairness to team colleagues.
• Collaborative working within our site as well as Central Operations and the Charity Team.
• Have an energising impact in those around you.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer.

Benefits

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. From financial wellbeing support to a season ticket loan, physiotherapy, private healthcare and more, at Nuffield Health we take care of what's important to you.