260850 (SNIS) Exercise Specialist - CP40

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• B4 Exercise specialist
• Part time: 0.96 WTE 34.5 hours
• Permanent
• Midlothian

Please note: As this post is part-time, the salary will be pro-rata.

Support Physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals with therapeutic exercise skills to impact directly upon clinical care over the broad spectrum of therapeutic exercise-related health issues.

May include supervision of team(s) of volunteers to provide exercise provision in support of therapy; taking responsibility for preparing this element of the service and developing it for possible generalization to other areas inclusive of Health Promotion.

The role includes designing and providing exercise rehabilitation programmes, functional movement programmes and promotion of long-term physical activity. These will be independently or designed in concert with therapists. There is a particular strong focus on falls prevention in older adults.

The post holder may work within a variety of designated NHS and non-NHS sites and required to work flexibly across Midlothian:

• This might include G.P practices, Health Centres, Leisure Centres, and community settings including patient domiciles.
• The work will be both 1:1 and group work.
• For informal enquiries please contact Joseph.hooton@nhs.scot

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Please note: we anticipate a high level of interest in this position and may close the vacancy early once a sufficient amount of applications are received. Therefore, please make sure you complete and submit your application at an early stage.

We will fully support disabled candidates, and candidates with long-term conditions or who are neurodivergent by making reasonable adjustments to our recruitment policy and practices.

This post requires the post holder to have a PVG Scheme membership/record. If the post holder is not a current PVG member for the required regulatory group (i.e. child and/or adult) then an application will need to be made to Disclosure Scotland and deemed satisfactory before they can begin in post.