Rehabilitation Specialist – Wokingham
Location:
Wokingham
Contract:
Permanent, part-time (15 hours per week)
Salary: £28,129.71 pro rata, depending on experience
At Nuffield Health the UK’s 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. The 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, emotional wellbeing support, healthy eating, and goal setting to aid the participants’ recovery. The pathway will involve weekly 1‑to‑1s, group exercise classes (virtual and in‑person), promotion of goal setting and self‑directed activity.
Keyresponsibilities
- 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.
- 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 programme.
- Re‑calibrate exercises and intensities based on regular improvements demonstrated by changes in 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.
- Engage in 1‑to‑1 telephone conversations each week with every participant to offer coaching in terms of setting short‑term and long‑term goals, understanding restrictions, monitoring progress, offering emotional wellbeing support, and empowering self‑directed activity.
- Problem‑solving and diagnostic skills.
- Organisational ability.
- Effective decision‑making skills.
- Time and resource management.
- Experience working with vulnerable adults.
- Good English language and numeric skills.
- Level3 Personal Trainer qualification (essential).
- Previous experience working in a Rehabilitation Specialist position (desired).
- BSc (Hons) in Sports Rehabilitation (desired, not essential).
- Free gym membership.
- Health assessments.
- Retail discounts.
- Pension options.
We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you. Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today. 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 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.
It’s all part of our mission to give everyone the care they need and to build a healthier nation.
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