Advanced Wellbeing Instructor

Overview

We have an opportunity for a part‑time advanced well‑being instructor to join our team. The position will support delivery specifically at our staff‑only gym facilities at Cramlington, Wansbeck and Seaton Delaval.

• Deliver gym inductions at hospital site gyms.
• Identify physical activity goals, design and monitor personalised programmes.
• Induct staff to gym facilities, provide fitness programmes and monitor progress, assisting staff to increase their physical activity and improve their overall well‑being.
• Deliver fitness classes and personal training both in‑person and virtually to meet the needs and goals of the members.
• Work with referral cases from other services including physiotherapy and psychology.
• Role‑model compassionate and inclusive leadership in order to shape the creation of a collective leadership culture within the trust; demonstrate a consistent leadership style that engages, enables and empowers others, uses coaching to promote ownership of learning and quality improvement, and facilitates team working and collaboration within teams/departments and across organisational boundaries.
• Identify and engage individuals who have well‑being membership and encourage those without membership to join.
• Attend engagement events to raise awareness of the well‑being offer across the whole trust.
• Support individuals to make informed choices about their health and well‑being and help them initiate and sustain appropriate behavioural changes to improve their health.
• Help people find and use the right services to support health improvement.
• Identify new referral pathways and strengthen existing ones into the Wellbeing Service.
• Work with the Activity and Wellbeing Coordinator to undertake capacity building work.
• Support the delivery of an activity and well‑being plan that incorporates a range of opportunities for staff to engage in well‑being‑related activities within the gym and wellness facilities.
• Record and report activities and results, including presentation of progress to the Wellbeing business manager.
• Manage and support the responsibilities and outcomes of Fitness/Gym instructor roles.
• Contribute to the safe running of the staff gym and well‑being facilities, ensuring all processes, policies and procedures are adhered to.
• Promote well‑being services to staff and contribute to raising the profile in our communities.
• Contribute to the safe management of the hospital gym suites and well‑being areas (indoors and outdoors).

We manage three major locality hospitals at North Tyneside, Wansbeck and Hexham, plus a number of smaller community hospitals and clinics from Tynemouth to Berwick on Tweed, in addition to our state‑of‑the‑art Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital, the first of its kind in England. We also care for people in their homes and provide services from facilities in local communities such as health centres.

We give people greater choice and control over their care to help them live independently at home and avoid hospital admission where appropriate. High quality patient care is at the heart of everything we do and we strive to ensure every single patient and service user has an exceptional experience with us. We have one of the most extensive patient experience programmes of any trust in England.

Applicants who are members of the Armed Forces, and those who have a disability that requires support in the workplace (two ticks pledge) and who meet the essential criteria will be interviewed under the Trust's interview guarantee scheme.

We recognise the positive value of diversity and inclusion and are committed to a workforce that is diverse, equal and inclusive. We welcome and encourage job applications from people of all backgrounds. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) candidates as BAME people are currently under‑represented in our workforce as well as other under‑represented groups such as LGBT+ and disabled candidates.

We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer, a Stonewall Diversity Champion, we have a Gold award from the Defence Recognition Scheme, and we are…