Rehabilitation specialist

​Rehabilitation Specialist

Bristol Hospital | Part Time | 18 hours per week

Competitive Salary depending on experience

Nuffield Health is largest healthcare charity in the UK, made up of our award-winning hospitals, fitness and wellbeing centres, medical centres and workplace wellbeing services. For the last 60 years, Nuffield Health’s experts have been working together to make the nation fitter, healthier, happier and stronger, all for the public benefit. Everything we do feeds into our purpose – to build a healthier nation. Our unique knowledge and expertise mean we’re ideally placed to support individuals requiring rehabilitation following illness or disease.

This role of Rehabilitation Specialist will be to deliver Nuffield Health Social Impact Programmes utilising the unique Nuffield Health pathway and championing the Charitable Purpose to ‘Build a healthier nation’. This role will play a crucial part in Nuffield Health’s long-term vision for supporting people with long term conditions with tailored, structured exercise programmes.

As part of a multi-disciplinary team, the role will require the Rehabilitation Specialist to undertake virtual and in person facilitation of appropriate exercise programming for people with varying abilities & physical function, offering emotional wellbeing support, facilitating individual and group learning around various topics and to promote positive behaviour change, all aiding in an individual’s recovery.

Essential qualifications

• Level 3 personal training or equivalent qualification required.
  • This is to become CIMSPA accredited, which a requirement for public liability purposes to deliver exercise-based programmes.
  • Organisations such as BASRaT can also be accepted.

Desirable qualifications

• Degree in exercise science, clinical exercise or similar is desirable but not required.
• Additional qualifications or CPD in fields such as BACPR cardiac training, recovery management, GP referral, circuit training, outdoor training or symptom/condition specific exercise management is useful but not necessary.

Essential experience

• IT literate, comfortable using online applications including video conferencing software, MS Office and experience with bespoke operational systems, such as VITA is useful.
• Experience in working with patients/participants with at least 1 long-term condition, and can discuss/evidence how they worked with these individual(s)

Desirable experience – Experience not required but will make the launch of LTC at site smoother

• Experience delivering group exercise training.
• Experience delivering 1-2-1 training.
• Experience in MSK management, particularly around rehab after MSK surgery, similar to NH’s recovery+ programme.