Cardiovascular Health Exercise Instructor Wythenshawe, England
Job description
An excellent opportunity exists to join a dynamic and progressive multi disciplinary team in a Cardiac Rehabilitation service at Wythenshawe Hospital in Manchester.
We are looking for an enthusiastic and skilled cardiovascular health exercise instructor to join our existing service with Level 4 BACPR Phase IV Exercise Instructor professional qualification essential. The role will include delivering exercise assessment and treatment to cardiac outpatients within Manchester NHS Foundation Trust.
Applicants should demonstrate excellent clinical and organisational skills. We require someone who is a good team worker, and communicator who is flexible with regard to working in a community or hospital setting and who is prepared to maintain high standards of evidence based clinical practice.
We can provide assistance with your training and development.
To support the cardiac rehabilitation of cardiac patients based in Wythenshawe Hospital and community settings. Facilitating individual and group exercise and encouraging behavior change.
The successful candidate will demonstrate good communication skills to engage patients and liaise with external agencies
JOB PURPOSE
To provide physical activity advice, individual exercise assessment and prescription to appropriate cardiovascular out-patients in the clinical setting
To work with the cardiac rehabilitation team to develop and deliver lifestyle behaviour change programmes & exercise services
To support and contribute to safe and effective service delivery eg, equipment checks, cleaning, appointment reminders etc
MFT is England’s largest NHS Trust with a turnover of £2.5bn & is on a different scale than most other NHS Trusts. We’re creating an exceptional integrated health & social care system for the 1 million patients who rely on our services every year.
Bringing together 10 hospitals & community services from across Manchester, Trafford & beyond, we champion collaborative working & transformation, encouraging our 28,000 workforce to pursue their most ambitious goals. We set standards that other Trusts seek to emulate so you’ll benefit from a scale of opportunity that is nothing short of extraordinary.
We’ve also created a digitally enabled organisation to improve clinical quality, patient & staff experience, operational effectiveness & driving research and innovation through the introduction of Hive; our brand-new Electronic Patient Record system which we’ve launched in September 2022.
We’re proud to be a major academic Research Centre & Education provider, providing you with a robust infrastructure to encourage and facilitate high-quality research programmes. What’s more, we’re excited to be embarking on our new Green Plan which will set out how MFT continues to play its part in making healthcare more sustainable.
At MFT, we create and foster a culture of inclusion and belonging, provide equal opportunities for career development that are fair, open and transparent, protecting your health and wellbeing and shaping the future of our organisation together.
To find out more about the key responsibilities and the specific skills and experience you’ll need, take a look at the Job Description & Person Specification attachments under the ‘Supporting Documents’ heading. So that you’re even more equipped to make an informed decision to apply to us, you’ll need to take time to read the ‘Candidate Essentials Guide’that sits with the Job Description and Person Specification. This document provides you with details about the Trust, our benefits and outlines how ‘we care for you as you care for others’. Most importantly, it also contains critical information you’ll need to be aware of before you submit an application form.
COVID-19 vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself, your family, your colleagues and of course patients from the virus when working in our healthcare settings. Whilst COVID-19 vaccination is not currently a condition of employment, we do encourage our staff to get vaccinated. If you are unvaccinated, there is helpful advice and information available by searching on the ‘NHS England’ website where you can also find out more about how to access the vaccination.
Diversity Matters
MFT is committed to promoting equality of opportunity, celebrating and valuing diversity and eliminating any form of unlawful discrimination across our workforce, ensuring our people are truly representative of the communities we serve. All individuals regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation are encouraged to apply for this post. As an inclusive employer, we are here to support you. If you have any special requirements to help you with your application, email our team [email protected].
We’re looking forward to hearing from you!
