Warwickshire Hospital | Fitness | Permanent | part time

Up to £28,972 per annum, pro rata - depending on skills and experience

18 hours per week

Role Overview

This role of Rehabilitation Specialist will be to deliver Nuffield Health Social Impact Programmes utilising the unique Nuffield Health pathway and championing the Charitable Purpose to ‘Build a healthier nation’. This role will play a crucial part in Nuffield Health’s long-term vision for supporting people with long term conditions with tailored, structured exercise programmes.

Key Responsibilities

• As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the role will require the Rehabilitation Specialist to undertake virtual and in person facilitation of appropriate exercise programming for people with varying abilities & physical function, offering emotional wellbeing support, facilitating individual and group learning around various topics and to promote positive behaviour change, all aiding in an individual’s recovery.
• Identify suitable community locations (such as community centre, sport centre or local authority gym) to deliver the programme from.
• Complete appropriate risk assessments & site evaluation to ensure location safe and appropriate.
• Ensure site is set up & ready to deliver the programme for each session. This includes ensuring equipment stored safely after use.
• Ensure any site specific rules and procedures are followed.
• Recruit participants into the programme, working with site and GPLO’s.
• Monitoring Cohort registration/referrals.
• Manage the transition of phases and overlapped phases.
• Deliver a rehabilitation programme of varying lengths, models (virtual and in person) and specialist areas.
• Facilitate Cohorts of 8 – 13 participants.
• Engage in weekly 1to1 telephone conversations to help set goals, understand restrictions, progress, and offer emotional wellbeing support.
• Deliver live stream classes for the cohorts using MS teams, with people of varying abilities and physical function (where applicable).
• Deliver in person exercise classes, with people of varying abilities and physical function.
• Facilitate individual & groups learning with the aid of the journal and Hub.
• Manage a discharge process when participants have completed their rehabilitation programme.
• Identification of deterioration and further referral, including internal clinical escalations where appropriate.
• Ensure that the participants are working through and completing their support journal, highlighting sections of particular help.
• Ensure that all sessions are scheduled ahead of time and participants receive their sessions plans in advance.
• Deliver programme assessments where necessary.
• Use of the correct entry point scale for all participants, offering progressions and regressions for all abilities.