Rehab Specialist

Nuffield Health Guildford Hospital; Reading; Hybrid; GBP 42,000 - 70,000; Part time

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking a Rehabilitation Specialist for Reading to deliver rehabilitation programmes, both online and in person. The role involves running 12-week plans, guiding participants through live and on-demand classes, and promoting self-managed activity.

You will use outcome data to track progress, recalibrate exercises as needed, and provide weekly coaching calls to support short and long-term goals and emotional wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Must hold Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification.
• Experience in rehabilitation is desirable.
• Ideally a BSc (Hons) in Sports Rehabilitation.
• Excellent IT skills and good English/number skills.

Responsibilities

• Organise and run rolling 12-week rehabilitation programmes.
• Facilitate live stream and in-person group exercise classes.
• Promote self-directed activity using on-demand classes and a participant journal.
• Re-calibrate exercises and intensities based on progress.
• Identify deterioration and follow escalation processes with timely reporting.
• Engage in weekly 1-to-1 phone conversations to set goals and provide wellbeing support.

Skills

Problem-solving

Organisational ability

Decision making

Time management

Working with vulnerable adults

English and numeracy

Job description

Rehabilitation Specialist Reading FWC | Fitness | Permanent | Part time Up to £28,129.71 pro rata depending on experience 15 hours per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it’s driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want - we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

We are looking for a Rehabilitation Specialist to help us build a healthier nation at our club.

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 play a crucial part in Nuffield’s long-term vision for clinical rehabilitation and will require the Rehabilitation Specialist 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 1to1s, group exercise classes (virtual and in person), 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 live stream and 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

Helping you feel good.

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.

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 what's important to you. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications).

So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role. It starts with you.

Nuffield Health, is the UK's largest healthcare charity. For over 60 years, we've been working to make the UK fitter, healthier, happier and stronger. All for the public benefit.

We do this through our family of 31 award-winning hospitals, 113 fitness and wellbeing centres, healthcare clinics and over a 100 workplace wellbeing services.

As a charity, we reinvest all our income into our services, into pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly into our social impact programmes, which are designed to support people who would not normally be able to afford or access our services.

Its all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.