Rehab Specialist

FITNESS & WELLBEING
Rehab Specialist

Rehabilitation Specialist

Edinburgh FountainFitness and Wellbeing Gym | Permanent | Part-Time

£23,670.40 pro-rata

15 hours a 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 Edinburgh Fountain 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, emotion 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.

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 program

Be able to re-calibrate exercises and intensities based on a regular improvements demonstrated be changes in effort and performance.

Identify any deterioration of participants and where necessary follow internal escalation processes.

Being able to deliver or facilitate various exercise modalities from circuit training to strength training, whilst working within people varying physical activities.

Be required to work flexibly and have good organizational skills to balance multiple program groups (cohorts) at once and process new referrals.

Engage in 1to1 telephone conversations each week with every participant to offer coaching in terms of setting new term and long-term goals, understanding restrictions, monitoring progress, understanding and offering emotional wellbeing 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 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 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 in 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. From free gym membership to physiotherapy, private healthcare, financial wellbeing advice and more. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what’s important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

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