Health Referral Facilitator

Role Profile Healthwise Facilitator

**1. Role Summary**:
**The role is responsible for prescribing suitable physical activity and supporting behavior change for Medically Referred clients, including setting up and undertaking group and individual training sessions along with general day to day operation of the GP Referral programme including referral processing, accurate record keeping and data processing.**:
The Exercise Referral Instructor is responsible to the Healthwise Coordinator / Health Manager

**2. Charitable Social Enterprise Difference and Strategic Ambitions**:
As a charitable social enterprise, we are different. Our purpose is to improve the physical, mental and social wellbeing of local communities. We make a difference by:
ÿ Providing balanced leisure centre, library and children centre programmes and activities that meet local needs and are accessible to all.

ÿ Reinvesting surplus back into the business that benefit facilities, people development, the environment and sustainability.

ÿ Providing training, routes to employment and career development opportunities to local people.

ÿ Sponsoring thousands of promising athletes through our GLL Sports Foundation.

ÿ Delivering targeted initiatives in partnership with local communities, groups and health providers.

We aim to be the most successful and influential leisure & cultural social enterprise in the UK. We have determined the key areas we need to focus on to deliver our purpose, and these are captured in six high level strategic themes. We have developed a framework to deliver these six themes, which we express as the ‘GLL Cube’ - each face of the Cube representing one of the themes - as shown adjacent (_in laid out form before putting all together_).

We use the analogy of the Cube because of the connectivity between the six faces (in terms of how they either impact on others and/or reflect on them). Each of these themes sets out long term ambitions; which are regularly reviewed and updated and are reflected in the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role (Section 3 below).

**3. Responsibilities and Accountabilities**:
**Programming/Operational**
- To ensure the smooth day-to-day running of the Physical Activity Referral Scheme (PARS), maximising effectiveness of all available resources
- Pre Screen referred patients in line with PARS protocols.
- Maintain a central referral database for all PARS patients
- Carry out health and lifestyle assessments with referral patients and develop safe and appropriate programmes of physical activity / exercise.
- Develop and deliver group activity sessions or one-to-one sessions where appropriate.
- Carry out re-assessments with patients in line with operating procedures
- Act as first point of contact for patients referred onto the scheme
- Ensure that the PARS is patient centred.
- Ensure positive communication throughout the scheme.
- Support and work closely with Leisure Centre Managers and operational teams to complement their operation.
- Support the PARS in achieving its targets
- Monitor all sessions delivered within the scheme in line with the schemes protocols.
- Ensure that all equipment used in your PARS Centre is maintained and serviced to the correct standards.
- Produce information to enable completion of monitoring reports for relevant agencies.
- To provide individuals with evidence-based, relevant and culturally sensitive information regarding a healthy lifestyle.
- Attend meetings as required.

**Development/Direction**
- Assist with the development of programmes and schemes that address physical inactivity

**Professional/People Accountabilities**
- Ensure that all necessary qualifications for the post are updated
- Ensure continuous professional development
- Provide cover for other members of the GP Referral team as required.

**Budgets/Finances**
- Responsibility for managing allocated budgets as determined within the project.

**General**
- To be flexible to the needs of the PARS and GLL
- To carry out duties with due regard for Health and Safety Requirements and regulations, the Society’s Equal Opportunities Policies and Customer Care standards.
- Keep up to date with developments in Healthy Living and the Leisure Industry in general
- The post holder will have access to confidential information. The post holder must not at any time use the personal data held by the PARS for any purpose other than that which it was intended under the terms of the scheme or disclose any such data to a third party

**Other**:

- Act in accordance with, and actively promotes all GLL policies and standards.
- Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post’s level of responsibility or required particularly as a result of events outside of GLL’s business control (pandemics etc).
- Work flexibly in line with the needs of the business at peak flow times, evenings and weekends.
- Deliver critical incident management as and when required.

**4. Key Working Relationshi