Health and Exercise Practitioner

NHS; Gloucester; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 31,000; Part time

Job summary

A prominent healthcare organization is seeking a Falls Assessment Practitioner in Gloucester. This part-time role focuses on delivering falls prevention education and managing patient caseloads in diverse settings. Ideal candidates should have a healthcare or exercise background and experience in education sessions. Join a dedicated team committed to improving community health and preventing falls.

Qualifications

• Experience in health promotion or education role is preferred.
• Ability to manage a flexible workload and diary independently.
• Familiarity with community and voluntary service organisations.

Responsibilities

• Deliver education sessions about falls prevention to groups and individuals.
• Run falls prevention exercise groups and one-on-one sessions safely.
• Manage clinical assessments and patient caseload.

Skills

Experience of working with people in a healthcare or exercise setting

Experience of delivering public education sessions

IT literate, proficient in Microsoft Office applications

Education

GCSEs in English & Maths or equivalent

NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Job description

Overview

Go back Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

The closing date is 28 September 2025

This role is offered on a permanent basis. The hours are part-time, 28 hours per week.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the countywide Falls Assessment and Education Service. We provide detailed, multifactorial assessments to those who have had falls as well as falls prevention advice and education to the public alongside clinical education to Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust staff.

Our health and exercise practitioners have a clinical caseload providing evidence based falls prevention exercise one to one in people\'s homes as well as in group settings. This role would be likely to suit someone with a healthcare or exercise instruction background who is confident in delivering group sessions. Experience of taking an exercise class would be beneficial. The post holder would also arrange and deliver falls prevention talks to public groups.

Due to the varied nature of the role, an ability to proactively and independently manage your diary and have a flexible approach is also an asset. The ability to travel to various locations around the county is essential, as is the ability to take equipment and resources along to talks from the team office base in Brockworth, Gloucester.

Main duties of the job

The service consistently receives positive feedback from patients and has an aim of \'reducing the number of people falling or at risk of falling in Gloucestershire through effective falls prevention education, information, assessment and intervention\' which has in part led to the opportunity to expand our offer as well as develop the role and what we provide. Someone who is forward thinking and enjoys contributing to a team approach would therefore be welcomed.

If you have questions regarding this role or would like to have an informal discussion about your suitability please do call 0300 421 6241 to speak to Meghan Martin (Clinical Specialist Falls Physiotherapist and Team Lead) or another member of the team.

Main Duties include:

• Deliver education to the general public and non-clinical staff groups about falls prevention and awareness based on National Guidelines and Quality standards
• To run a falls prevention exercise group and 1:1 exercise sessions safely and efficiently, ensuring health and safety policies are adhered to at all times
• Management and rehabilitation of falls assessment and education service patients - reviewing and progressing exercises, undertake clinical observations as delegated by a qualified health professional e.g. lying and standing blood pressure, repeating outcome measures, referring on and assessing with equipment
• Have a good awareness of community and voluntary service organisations in order to be able to signpost on appropriately.

About us

We have a skilled and dedicated workforce of over 5000 colleagues working in a diverse range of services over 55 sites and within people\'s homes. We strive to enable a welcoming workplace culture that builds and celebrates civility, inclusivity and diversity, while providing a sense of belonging and trust.

Annual staff surveys, regular Pulse surveys and other engagement opportunities provide our people with lots of opportunity to tell us about their experiences of working with us. In the latest staff survey, 61% of colleagues gave us their views. It was great to hear that:

• 72% of colleagues would recommend the Trust as a place to work, ranking us 1st for Provider Trusts in theSouth West region on this question.
• 76% would recommend the standard of care provided in our services if a friend or relative needed treatment, also ranking us 1st in theSouth West region.
• 81% said that care of patients and service users is the Trust\'s priority, compared with an average in comparable NHS Trusts in England of 64%.

This high-level overview shows we are in a healthy position, with higher scores than average for comparable organisations, alongside a great response rate,indicating good staff engagement. However, we also know we have plenty of room for improvement in many areas. To that end, we continue to prioritise and invest in our commitment to genuinely becoming a Great Place to Work with consistent top-quartile performance in the annual staff survey and Pulse surveys.

Job responsibilities

• Deliver education about falls prevention to groups and 1:1
• Independently run a falls prevention exercise group and 1:1 exercise sessions safely and efficiently, ensuring health and safety policies are adhered to at all times
• Manage a patient caseload and engage in clinical supervision regarding these patients and their management
• Organise and manage own workload flexibly, in accordance with need and service requirements.
• Attend team meetings / in house training sessions
• Complete evaluation and audit of interventions / sessions as required
• Be responsible for undertaking venue risk assessments and to carry out administrative duties relating to the set up and management of group sessions
• Assist in the smooth running of the service by dealing with queries, tasking and relaying messages and responding to upset or worried patients and carers.
• Access countywide assistant in service training
• Undertake core band 4 competencies applicable to the Falls Assessment and Education Service
• Undertake training and development deemed appropriate by your line manager
• Ensure knowledge, skills and competencies relating to the role are updated
• Engage in the appraisal process
• Contribute ideas towards the development of the service, continuously looking to improve the quality and efficiency of the service.

We provide a Multi-professional preceptorship programme that is aligned to the National Preceptorship Framework for Nursing and have been awarded the Interim quality mark from NHS England. Our programme is provided to all Newly Qualified; Nurses, Nursing Associates, Internationally Educated Practitioners, Allied Health Professionals and Return to Practice Practitioners. In addition to the programme we also offer all preceptees the opportunity of enrolling and completing the level 7 (Masters) 15 credit validated module Preceptorship for Healthcare (AP7026).

Newly qualified Social Workers are offered the Assessed and Supported Year in Employment programme (ASYE) which is similar to a preceptorship programme.

This role is not eligible for sponsorship as per the Governments UK VISA and Immigration Rules and Regulations. For more information please visit https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Person Specification

Qualifications

• GCSEs in English & Maths or equivalent
• NVQ level 3 or equivalent experience

Experience

• Experience of working with people in a healthcare or exercise setting
• Experience of delivering public education sessions or speaking to a group
• Experience of working in a health promotion/education role

Knowledge

• IT literate, with the ability to use computers confidently for basic tasks, and proficient in Microsoft Office applications

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.

Employer name

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust

Address

Countywide Base: Falls Office

Edward Jenner Court, 1010 Pioneer Avenue,

£27,485 to £30,162 a yearper annum pro rata

Contract

Permanent

Working pattern

Reference number

327-25-777

Job locations

Countywide Base: Falls Office

Edward Jenner Court, 1010 Pioneer Avenue,