Exercise Instructor

The purpose of the post is to provide support to the Occupational Therapy service on the Neuro Rehabilitation Unit at Goole and District Hospital, enabling the provision of a high standard of therapeutic interventions in an inpatient and community setting.

Your role is to enable and guide patients to achieve their functional potential through exercise and activity. This would be demonstrated through the provision of assessment and treatment of patients who are inpatients on Goole Neurological Rehabilitation Unit and would support patients to maximise their functional potential long term independent management.

With your specialty knowledge of exercise and movement you will assess, plan and design a comprehensive intervention programme working very closely with the therapy staff that will meet the individual patient’s needs and goals. You would be required to monitor, evaluate and record outcomes and offer advice and support along with progressing the patient towards their identified goals.

You will work with patients in group and on an individual basis in leisure, hospital, community settings and patients own homes.

We’re a large organisation with three hospitals located in Scunthorpe, Grimsby and Goole. We also provide community services in North Lincolnshire. Our 6,500 members of staff care for and support a population of more than 400,000 people.

We encourage all our staff to innovate and adopt ‘best practice’ so we can deliver excellent care to our patients. We ask staff to live our values; kindness, courage and respect.

We are committed to recruiting the best people to work with us. You could be one of them.

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“We are committed to safeguarding the welfare of children/vulnerable adults and expect the same commitment from all staff and volunteers”.

Please be aware that all new employees starting work with us will be charged for the cost of their DBS check, if it is required for their role.

We are committed to creating and maintaining a fair and supportive working environment and culture, where contributions are fully recognised and valued by all and staff feel empowered to carry out their duties to the best of their abilities. As employers we are committed to promoting and protecting the physical and mental health and well-being of all our staff. This underpins our values as set out in the NHS Constitution, supports us to be an Employer of Choice and ultimately enables our employees to support the effective care of our patients.