Senior Health Trainer - Band 4

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Are you ready for an exciting challenge? Do you have experience of being a successful Health Trainer or Fitness and Exercise Professional? Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust is pleased to offer this permanent Band 4 Senior Health trainer role in our Cancer Rehabilitation service.

Macmillan Next Steps Cancer Rehabilitation (MNSCR) is an award winning service. Our ambitions are to holistically support and empower people affected by cancer to take an active role in their health and care, promoting healthy lifestyles and positive wellbeing.

We are looking for an enthusiastic person who can work with both individuals and groups to deliver safe exercise as part of cancer rehabilitation and support healthy lifestyle change. The post holder will deliver, supervise and progress group based exercise as part of Cancer Rehabilitation classes. They will also undertake initial individual assessment of patients into the service and coordinate safe exercise prescription. Good communication skills will be essential to maximise rehabilitation potential.

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification. Learning and development opportunities and facilitator training will be provided to the successful candidate.

For further information or an informal discussion about the post please contact Jo Sansom on 0300 421 6586 or email jo.sansom@ghc.nhs.uk

Hours per week – 22.5

The qualification, training & experience requirements for the role are underlined in the Job Description/Person Specification.

Closing date: 3rd August 2021

Shortlisting date: 4th August 2021

Interview date: 18th August 2021

A valid UK driving licence plus the use of own transport for business purposes is essential. For qualifying staff the Trust has a Lease Car Scheme in place and also offers a popular Salary Sacrifice Car Scheme with our partner Tusker.

To ensure you fully understand how the Trust, as a Data Controller, will process and store your data please read the attached document ‘Applicant and Staff Privacy Notice’ prior to applying for the role.

Candidates for any staff appointment shall, when making application, disclose in writing to the Trust whether they are related to any governor. Failure to disclose such a relationship may disqualify a candidate and, if appointed, may render them liable to dismissal.

Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust are proud to have been recognised as a ‘Veteran Aware Trust’, evidencing the provision of the best care for Veterans and driving to improve the care for veterans and their families. Find out more about this by clicking on the link at the right hand side, titled ‘Veterans Covenant Healthcare Alliance’.

Applicants who have been shortlisted will be contacted via NHS Jobs. Please check your account regularly. If you do not hear from us within 3 weeks of the closing date you have probably not been shortlisted. We are sorry that on some occasions we are unable to let you know the outcome of your application personally. The Trust reserves the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications have been received.

Please note that all candidates who declare themselves on their application form to be disabled and who meet the essential criteria for the post will be shortlisted in accordance with the Trust’s Two Ticks Pledge on disability.

Applicants should note that all appointments to GHCNHSFT are subject to the completion of a satisfactory 6 month probation period.(excluding Medical Staffing appointments).

Successful candidates are expected to self-fund either an enhanced or standard or basic DBS check, and sign up to the DBS update service if required for the role.

Please note that if you are successful in your application and you have previously worked for an NHS Trust, GHCNHSFT will request confirmation of your previous NHS service from your last NHS employer via the inter authority transfer system to verify service, pension, sick pay entitlement and pay grade. Your permission will be sought at application and /or later in the process.

Flexible working arrangements will be considered. Any request will be set against genuine operational requirements and limitations and it is not obligatory for a manager to accede to the request.

For positions Band 8a and above there is a requirement to participate in an on-call rota to ensure a high quality of care for patients at all times and continued support to all staff with access to the right knowledge and expertise. For further information on this please consult the job description.