Exercise Instructor

Job description

Job responsibilities

JOB SUMMARY

To plan, organise, run and evaluate exercise and education sessions for individuals and groups of patients with cardiac or pulmonary conditions within a community setting.

To assess suitability of patients group activity and progress within group where necessary.

To undertake own caseload of individual patients with cardiac or pulmonary conditions.

KEY RESULT AREAS:

Core duties and responsibilities:

To manage own caseload of patients by accepting direct referrals from health care professionals. To prioritise, assess, plan, run and evaluate a number of complex activities or treatment programmes for groups or individuals.

Responsible for maintating accurate treatment records and insuring data is entered on to appropriate IT systems for work undertaken.

To develop and deliver specialist therapeutic exercise groups to patients referred into the cardiac / pulmonary rehabilitation service.

To develop and deliver exercise programmes to individuals where necessary, assessing, re-assessing and progressing exercises and discharging patients when treatment complete.

Responsible for organising and delivering educational sessions related to the clinical area.

To lead, teach, advise and demonstrate activities in own clinical area to new or less experienced employees, students or volunteers.

To undertake audits and surveys necessary to work in own area and may occasionally be included in research and development projects.

To ensure own development within the clinical area of cardiac and pulmonary rehabilitation.

To ensure the appropriate use/issue of therapeutic equipment.

To undertake any other duties consistent with the post.

Trust Values:

The Trust is committed to ensuring the highest standards of care and treatment and expects that all staff treat people e.g, service users, their carers, relatives, friends, colleagues, visitors etc, with dignity and respectat all time. The post holder must all time act in accordance with the Trusts Values:

Honest, open, transparent

Respectful

Person first and in the centre

Improve and be outstanding

Relevant today, ready for tomorrow

Families and carers matter

Safeguarding:

Report any concerns regarding the safety or wellbeing of children, adults service users, members of their families etc, in accordance with Trust Policy.

Prevent and respond appropriately to abuse and understand own role in this by undertaking Safeguarding training.

Trust policies and commitments to be read in line with the relevant Trust Policy:

All staff employed by the Trust must comply with the Trusts policies and procedures, undertake appropriate training required for their role and commit to:

ensure they are aware of the Whistleblowing Policy and how they raise concerns;

maintain confidentiality, in line with the Trusts Confidentiality Policy and Code of Conduct;

understand their personal responsibilities with regards to data quality for any information which they create, use or process in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), The Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA) and Trust Data Protection policy;

comply with the provisions of The Trusts Health and Safety Policy and Protocol. Ensuring their own safety and that of colleagues, service users and visitors. Know the action to be taken in the event of a fire and must undertake fire training annually;

receive supervision in line with the Trusts Supervision Policy and an annual Appraisal in line with the Trusts Appraisal Policy, during which mandatory, role specific and personal development needs should be identified and agreed;

understand their responsibilities under the Trusts Equal Opportunities in Employment Policy and ensure that they adhere to the provisions of the policy;

recognise, respect and support the equality diversity of staff, colleagues, service users, carers and the public. Contribute to a working environment which promotes and responds positively to difference and diversity;

ensure they carry out their duty to safeguard and promote the welfare of children and young people under the age of 18 years, as issued under Section 11 of The Children Act 2004, by being familiar with and adhering to Trust safeguarding policies and participatingin relevanttraining;

comply with their professional responsibilities to develop their practice and deliver care through a Clinical Governance framework (i.e. CPD, Audit, Supervision);

demonstrate, through practice and practical understanding, the importance of the continual development of individual, team and service wide quality improvement;

abide by relevant codes of professional practice, with the organisation taking action when codes of conduct are breached;

work flexibly to meet the needs of the service/organisation, whilst working within a culture of progressive employment practices and commitment to the Investors in People (IiP) Standards.

adhere to the Trusts smoke free policies, which prohibits smoking anywhere on Trust grounds;

being socially responsible by complying with measures that support the Trust in reducing or offsetting our environmental impact;

Identify and report risks, hazards, incidents, accidents and near misses promptly;

In addition to the Trusts own responsibilities under the Health and Social Care Act 2008, Code of Practice on the prevention and control of infections and related guidance, for your safety, ALL staff (and contractors) are responsible for ensuring their work adheres to this Code in the delivery of safe patient care.

This job description is an outline of the main duties of the post. The postholder will be required to undertake other duties commensurate with the band as directed. The content of this post will be reviewed in consultation with the postholder when necessary and in line with the service developments.

For full details of the role please see the supporting documents attached.

Person Specification

PERSONAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Ability to maintain confidentiality.
• Ability to work as part of a team but also alone using own initiative.
• Ability to work to time constraints and pressure.
• A current driving licence and access to a car during the working day is essential (reasonable adjustments will be considered for any applicants who are unable to drive due to a disability).
• Flexible working as service requires including evenings/weekends as necessary.

PHYSICAL ATTRIBUTES

Essential

• Ability to undertake the duties and demands of the post. A satisfactory sickness record over the previous 2 years (subject to the need to act with fairness and equality of opportunity, particularly where the sickness is related to a disability and/or pregnancy).

TRAINING

Desirable

• Evidence of ongoing learning in relevant area.

Qualifications

Essential

• Formal qualification in exercise or fitness/gym instruction (RSA equivalent) or NVQ level 3 in therapy/care + substantial experience as Therapy Assistant in Cardiac or Pulmonary rehabilitation.
• GCSE English or equivalent.

Desirable

• Other exercise qualifications, experience.

SPECIAL KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

Essential

• Good verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to understand their role and limitations.
• Ability to organise, evaluate, facilitate and participate in exercise groups.
• Ability to progress exercise programmes.
• To demonstrate an understanding of the conditions experienced by patients with cardiac or pulmonary conditions and the ability to set up appropriate exercise programmes.
• Ability to observe Health & Safety regulations and risk assess working area.

Desirable

• Basic computer skills.

Experience

Essential

• Group facilitation experience.

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

South West Yorkshire Partnership NHS Trust

Address

The Rockingham Centre

Sheffield Road

Hoyland

Barnsley

South Yorkshire

S74 0PY

Employer's website

https://www.southwestyorkshire.nhs.uk (Opens in a new tab)