Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor

Job summary

Are you passionate about improving patients optimal health outcomes?

Join us as an Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor to support individuals with advice, exercise, self-management and treatment interventions.

The Musculoskeletal Service (MSK) Service provides MSK assessment and treatment for patients presenting with a MSK presentation. The service operates from key hub sites and other community settings where we have a Specialist MSK Service managing those patients that require diagnostics or onward referral.

The MSK Service manages self-referral, GP and consultant referrals and within the wider MSK Service there is also Adolescent MSK, Pelvic Health and Hydrotherapy. The MSK Service has close links with Persistent Pain Service. Chronic Fatigue and Podiatry.

Main duties of the job

To implement rehabilitation programmes for individual patients and groups as advocated by Physiotherapists.

Assist and conduct rehabilitation classes under the guidance of the Physiotherapy team.

Supervise and progress individual patient's rehabilitation programmes ensuring patient compliance with goal setting, under the guidance of the Physiotherapists.

To design exercise programmes, to include home exercise programmes for patient groups or individuals.

To be able to lead and demonstrate sport specific activities to patients to a high degree of skill and physical fitness.

To provide basic health screening/fitness evaluations of staff and patients.

To check and document objective markers of patients being supervised throughout treatment.

To be involved with health promotion and fitness incentive schemes for staff and patients.

To contribute and develop both policies and procedures for the use of the gym and rehabilitation protocols.

Responsible for ensuring policy and procedures are adhered to by staff within the gym

About us

If you are looking for somewhere you can make a real difference and are passionate about keeping people safe, well and out of hospital, a career with us may be just what you're looking for. At Solent NHS Trust, we strive to make a difference to the health and wellbeing of our communities.

We are proud to be an organisation which is focused on our people and we welcome people who share our values to come and work with us.

To deliver great care that is safe, simple and easy to access

To be a caring, flexible and supportive place to work

To deliver the best value for money

Our shared values support the development of a strong working culture. They breathe life into our organisation -- guiding and inspiring all of our actions and decisions. They enable us to be better at what we do and create a great place for our staff to work, whilst ensuring we provide the highest quality of care to our patients.

In creating our values, we spent time listening to our employees and members. Based on what people told us, we created our HEART values to reflect the deep belief that we are caring organisation at the centre of our community: Honesty, Everyone counts, Accountable, Respectful, Teamwork.

We are an accredited Real Living Wage employer.

We encourage and support our staff to be vaccinated as this remains the best line of defence against Covid-19.