Rehabilitation Specialist

Nuffield Health Cardiff & Vale Hospitals; Cardiff; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

free gym membership

health assessments

retail discounts

pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health Cardiff & Vale Hospitals is seeking a Rehabilitation Specialist to deliver our rehabilitation programmes. The role involves running rolling 12-week plans, leading live and in-person classes, and supporting participants with self-directed activity and goal setting.

Strong communication and IT skills are essential. You will work onsite, coordinate with the Charity team and supporters, and hold a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification.

Qualifications

• 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.

Responsibilities

• Organise and run a series of rolling 12-week rehabilitation programmes.
• Facilitate and deliver both live stream and in person group exercise classes.
• Promote self-directed activity using on-demand classes and a participant journal.
• Re-calibrate exercises based on improvements in effort and performance.
• Identify deterioration and follow escalation processes with timely reporting.
• Offer weekly 1to1 coaching calls to set goals and provide emotional wellbeing support.

Skills

Problem-solving

Organisational ability

Decision-making

Time management

Experience with vulnerable adults

English & numeracy

Education

BSc (Hons) in Sports Rehabilitation

Level 3 Personal Trainer

Job description

Up To £27,985 Per Annum Depending On Experience

37.5 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.

Vale Hospital | Permanent | Full time

Up To £27,985 Per Annum Depending On Experience

37.5 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. 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.

• free gym membership
• health assessments
• retail discounts
• pension options

At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Cardiff & Vale Hospitals

Nuffield Health Cardiff and Vale Hospitals provide first class private healthcare to the immediate local areas of Cardiff and the Vale of Glamorgan, as well as across South Wales and surrounding regions. Our two hospitals. The Vale Hospital (mainly in-patients) and Cardiff Bay Hospital (day cases) are multi-specialty hospitals which combine the finest consultants, the latest medical technology, with the unrivalled reputation of Nuffield Health. The Vale Hospital is a purpose built, modern hospital located in beautiful surroundings of the Vale of Glamorgan. We provide 30 in-patient rooms within a very tranquil hospital setting and were recently identified as one of the top 30 most technologically advanced hospitals in the world. We host 2 fully digital ultra clean air operating theatres, an excellent physiotherapy department, 24-hour high dependency, surgical and medical RMO cover and exemplary outpatients and diagnostic service. The patient feedback for our hospital is one of the best within the Nuffield Health estate and this is something our staff and consultants are very proud of.

It starts with you.