Rehabilitation Specialist

Nuffield Health; London; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 28,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a leading healthcare charity as a Rehabilitation Specialist, where you will play a vital role in delivering innovative rehabilitation programs. This part-time position involves facilitating both in-person and digital exercise classes, providing emotional support, and promoting self-directed activities for participants. You will work closely with individuals of varying abilities, helping them achieve their health goals while ensuring a supportive and engaging environment. If you are a motivated professional with a passion for helping others, this is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Qualifications

• Experience in rehabilitation is desired but not essential.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple program groups.

Responsibilities

• Deliver rehabilitation programs and facilitate group exercise classes.
• Engage in 1-to-1 coaching and monitor participants' progress.
• Capture outcome data accurately to support charitable purposes.

Skills

Leadership & influencing skills

Good communicator

Calm under pressure

Motivational and engaging personality

Strong organization skills

Excellent IT skills

Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer

Education

Level 3 Qualification in Personal Training

Job description

Rehabilitation Specialist

Nuffield Health Friern Barnet Fitness and Wellbeing Gym | Permanent | Part-Time
Up to £27,310.40 pro rata depending on experience
10 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 Friern Barnet 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, emotional wellbeing support, healthy eating, and goal settings 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.

As our Rehabilitation Specialist you will:

• 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 to 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 varying physical activities.
• Work flexibly and have good organizational skills to balance multiple program groups (cohorts) and process new referrals.
• Engage in 1-to-1 telephone conversations each week with every participant to offer coaching in terms of setting new term and long-term goals, understanding restrictions, monitoring progress, and offering emotional wellbeing support.
• Ensure that outcome data is accurately captured to support our Charitable Purpose and track 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).

To succeed as a Rehabilitation Specialist, you will have the following skills and abilities:

• Leadership & influencing skills.
• Good communicator.
• Calm under pressure.
• Motivational and engaging personality.
• Self-starter with high levels of drive, energy, and commitment.
• Strong organization skills, with the 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 energizing impact on those around you.
• Excellent IT skills.
• Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer.

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.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? 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.

About Us

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 100 workplace wellbeing services.

As a charity, we invest all our income back into our services, in pioneering improvements in care, and most importantly, we invest in our flagship programmes, which have been developed to help people who could normally afford or access our services.

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