Rehabilitation Specialist

Nuffield Health; North Tyneside; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Health assessments

Retail discounts

Pension options

Job summary

Nuffield Health is seeking a dedicated professional to facilitate live and in-person group exercise classes, promoting self-directed activity for participants. The role emphasizes rehabilitation principles, weekly coaching calls, and collaboration across onsite and charity teams to support beneficiaries.

Essentially, you will hold a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification, potentially an MSc in Sports Rehabilitation, and bring strong communication, organisational, and problem-solving skills to

Qualifications

• Hold a Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification.
• Experience in rehabilitation or rehabilitation specialist roles is preferred.
• Good English and number skills.

Responsibilities

• Facilitate and deliver live stream and in-person group exercise classes for participants with varying abilities.
• Promote self-directed activity using on-demand classes and journals to aid self-management after the programme.
• Re-calibrate exercises and intensities based on participant progress.
• Identify deterioration and escalate through internal processes with timely reporting and accurate data capture.
• Conduct weekly 1-to-1 phone coaching to set goals, monitor progress, and provide wellbeing support.
• Collaborate onsite with Charity team and beneficiaries; demonstrate leadership and strong communication.
• Maintain excellent IT skills and contribute to reporting and monitoring activities.

Skills

Coaching skills

Strong communication

Organisational skills

Problem-solving

Decision making

Time management

Empathy and wellbeing support

Self-directed activity promotion

IT skills

Education

Level 3 Personal trainer qualification

BSc (Hons) Sports Rehabilitation (desirable)

Job description

• 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.

  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)., 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

  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 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.