Band 4 Exercise Specialist - Bath

Are you a fitness professional looking for your next challenge? Considering the possibility of applying your skills in a clinical setting?

We work with individuals living with severe mental illness and wish to recruit someone keen to improve the health and wellbeing of our service users. As part of an established team you'll be responsible for offering individually tailored, high quality, and safe exercise.

You will work with adults and older adults at our inpatient facility to promote and encourage physical activity and well-being. There is scope to extend the service into the community.

Applicants should have experience of working with people experiencing mental ill-health and enjoy working alongside people to help them achieve their goals. You'll work closely with the Physiotherapist and as part of our multidisciplinary team providing physical activity and exercise to a high risk population. It is an excellent chance to develop skills and knowledge as an exercise professional, working with those with both complex mental and physical health needs., To be an exercise specialist, with diverse responsibilities, and key professional in improving and promoting the physical health and wellbeing of those with mental health conditions, under the care of AWP.

To assess pre-exercise readiness and design, deliver, monitor, adapt and tailor safe exercise programmes to individual service users.

To work as a member of the multi-professional team to provide physical activity, exercise and health promotion within a hospital and community environment to those with complex physical, psychological and mental health needs.

To actively educate, facilitate and motivate service users with wide ranging mental health problems to adopt regular physical activity and an active lifestyle, employing appropriate motivational strategies to achieve this as well as educating staff and service users about the benefits of physical activity on health and wellbeing.

To provide bespoke health and fitness advice and training to adult inpatients with a range of mental health conditions and/or learning disabilities, using onsite fitness facilities, outdoor areas and suitable opportunities in the community. Service users remain the responsibility of an appropriate registered clinician.

Right to Work in the UK This position is not eligible for Skilled Worker visa sponsorship. Applicants must already hold the legal right to work in the UK at the time of application, as the organisation is unable to support sponsorship for this post.

To be successful the applicant needs to be highly motivated with excellent communication skills and the passion and motivation to encourage healthier lifestyles. You'll need an understanding and interest in mental health, be fitness/sports therapy qualified to minimum Level 3, with a minimum of 2 years recent experience in the fitness industry.

We are the lead provider of healthcare for people with serious mental illness, learning disabilities and autism across Bath and North East Somerset (BaNES), Swindon and Wiltshire, and Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.

We aim to provideHigh Quality, Compassionate Careeverywhere, every day. This means our services will be safe, clinically effective and provide a positive all round experience for our patients, families and carers. And we believe passionately in treating everyone with kindness, respect and empathy.

Key to this is providing a supportive and safe environment for our 4,000 staff where we all feel welcome and able to do the best we can for those we support. Our staff and teams work incredibly hard delivering services across more than 90 locations, covering 2,200miles, to more than 1.8million people.

At AWP we actively encourage applicants from all backgrounds; we are particularly keen to encourage applications from people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds, those with disabilities and from the LGBTQ+ community. We want people to bring their unique blend of experiences, backgrounds, perspectives and knowledge to AWP, as diversity makes us stronger.