Rehabilitation Specialist

Job Description

Rehabilitation Specialist

East Kilbride FWC Fitness Permanent Part time

Up to £27,310.40 per annum pro rata dependent on experience

15 hours per week

Our team in East Kilbride Fitness & Wellbeing Centre currently has an internal opportunity for a Rehabilitation Specialist. Continue your journey with us whilst we’ll support you to be your best.

The role of the Rehabilitation Specialist will be to 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, emotional well being support, healthy eating, and goal setting to aid the participant’s recovery.

Responsibilities

• Run a series of 12 week rehabilitation programmes.
• Facilitate and deliver both live stream and in person group exercise classes, with people of varying abilities and physical function.
• Promote self directed activity using pre recorded on demand classes and a journal which will 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 where necessary follow internal escalation processes.
• Deliver or facilitate various exercise modalities from circuit training to strength training whilst working within peoples varying physical abilities.
• Work flexibly and have good organisational skills to balance multiple programme groups (cohorts) at once and process new referrals.
• 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 well being support, and empowering self directed activity.
• Ensure that outcome data is accurately captured, which is essential in supporting our charitable purpose and tracking and monitoring participants progress.
• Respond to the ongoing requirements of the programme to ensure successful delivery of each cohort.
• Have experience and an understanding of rehabilitation (desired not essential).

The Person

• Leadership & influencing skills
• Good communicator
• Calm under pressure
• Motivational and engaging personality
• Self starter with high levels of drive, energy and commitment
• Strong organisational skills, with ability to manage time and workload effectively
• Personal values that drive performance with clarity, transparency and fairness to team colleagues
• Collaborative working within your site as well as Central Operations and the Charity Team
• Have an energising impact on those around you
• Excellent IT skills
• Level 3 Qualified Personal Trainer

Benefits

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. You can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and wellbeing rewards, such as:

• Free gym membership
• Health assessments
• Retail discounts
• Pension options