Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 5
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
- Job ref
- 208-5ACEC9-24-1
- Employer
- Northern Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Scunthorpe General Hospital
- Town
- Scunthorpe
- Salary
- £28,407 - £34,581 per annum pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 04/07/2024 23:59
Employer heading
Exercise Instructor
Band 5
Job overview
The purpose of the post is to provide support to the Physiotherapy and Occupational Therapy services in the MSK Physiotherapy and Hands Department at Scunthorpe General Hospital through the provision of a high standard of therapeutic intervention in an out-patient 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 out-patients in the MSK department or accessing community leisure facilities and would support patients to maximise their functional potential and support their long term independent management.
Main duties of the job
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.
Working for our organisation
NLAG is part of one of the largest acute and community Group arrangements in the NHS, seeing well over one million patients every year and managing a budget of over £1.3 billion.
Made up of two Trusts - Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust (NLAG) and Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (HUTH) - our Group has significant ambitions and is committed to delivering world-class hospital and community services for the 1.65 million people we serve.
Together we employ nearly 20,000 staff. Our five main hospital sites are Diana, Princess of Wales Hospital, Scunthorpe General Hospital and Goole and District Hospital, for NLAG and Hull Royal Infirmary and Castle Hill Hospital for HUTH.
As Teaching Hospitals working with the Hull York Medical School, we both lead and contribute to research in many areas - biomedical research, primary care, palliative medicine, cardiovascular and respiratory medicine, vascular surgery, cancer surgery and oncology.
We believe that by developing a diverse, inclusive, innovative, skilled and caring workforce, we can deliver excellent care to our patients and a great future for our employees, our Group and our community.
Should we receive a high volume of applications the advert may be closed earlier than stated.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
For more detailed information, please read the job description linked below.
As a Trust we are keen to offer and encourage flexible working opportunities to address health and wellbeing and work-life balance for our employees, this will have a positive impact on the care we provide.
Flexible working is part of a wider commitment to improve the quality and experience of working life and we recognise that it is a key contributor for the recruitment and retention of our employees.
We therefore support and encourage open conversations around a specific working pattern to suit your work-life balance or a multi-role career, if it works for you and works for the role, we'll do our best to make it happen.
Local flexible working arrangements are developed in partnership between the line manager and employee in order to ensure equality of access to flexible working, as far as practicable, regardless of role, shift pattern, team or pay, based on: patient/service user and staff experience, service delivery and work-life balance of colleagues.
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.
We strongly value the different perspectives and ideas a diverse workforce brings to deliver better outcomes for our patients. We welcome applications irrespective of people’s age, disability, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances.
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Person specification
Education and Qualifications
Essential criteria
- • Degree in Sport Science, Therapy or Rehabilitation which includes anatomy & physiology, strengthening and conditioning.
Desirable criteria
- • Car driver for community work
- • Register of Exercise Professionals (REPS) Level 4
- • Member of the British Association of Sport Rehabilitators and Trainers (BASRaT)
Occupational Experience
Essential criteria
- • Substantial experience of delivering rehabilitation exercises within a health care setting
- • Substantial experience of delivering exercise to complex patient groups with multiple co-morbidities
- • Experience of undertaking exercise assessments to determine suitability onto the program, including goal setting
Desirable criteria
- • Experience of supervising junior members of staff/ students that are on placement with the team
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Hollie Iggleden
- Job title
- First Contact Practitioner Lead
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 03033302385
- Additional information
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