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Rehabilitation Specialist

Job details
Posting date: 14 August 2025
Hours: Full time
Closing date: 28 August 2025
Location: City Of Manchester, Greater Manchester, M11 3BS
Company: Nuffield Health
Job type: Permanent
Job reference: JR0090076_1755159656

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Summary

Rehabilitation Specialist

Manchester Institute of Health & Performance | Fitness | Permanent | Full time

From £28,267.2 per annum, depending on skills and experience

40 hour per week

At Nuffield Health the UKs largest healthcare charity, everything we give our patients, members and customers would not be possible without you. Your passion, your warmth, your drive to make a difference. Whether it's driving connected health, helping the nation, transforming experiences, or building the career you want - we give you the support to do it all. Join our journey. It starts with you.

MIHP Rehabilitation Specialist (RS A MIHP Rehabilitation Specialist (RS) is responsible for delivering high-quality rehabilitation programmes, managing participant engagement, and supporting clinical trials and data reporting.

Participant Recruitment & Programme Coordination

  • Collaborate with sites and Healthcare Account Managers to recruit participants.
  • Monitor cohort registrations and referrals.
  • Manage transitions between programme phases, including overlaps.
  • Liaise with community and clinical stakeholders to drive referrals and provide feedback.
  • Achieve site-specific SROI targets

Programme Delivery

  • Deliver rehabilitation programmes of varying lengths, formats (virtual/in-person), and specialisms.
  • Facilitate cohorts of 8-13 participants

Data Management & Reporting

  • Use the Vita pathway for all programmes (except manual trials).
  • Book all sessions via Vita.
  • Capture outcome data (PROMS) at key intervals: start, mid-point, end, and 6/12 months post-programme.
  • Ensure participants complete questionnaires and attend health checks.
  • Use and recalibrate effort scales based on participant progress.
  • Accurately record trial data manually or via designated systems.
  • Report findings to trial leads and stakeholders.
  • Complete discharge assessments and track attendance/DNAs.
  • Provide weekly updates in Vita.

Administrative & Community Support

  • Maintain attendance records and review triage notes.
  • Document and review 1:1 session notes.
  • Support programme administration.
  • Share updates and success stories on Viva Engage.
  • Provide community support for cohorts.
  • Ensure participant memberships are active and liaise with sales teams.
  • Keep journals and effort scales updated.
  • Collect testimonials and feedback.

Training & Governance

  • Complete all AOL training before starting the role.
  • Undertake additional training for trials and hospital site work as needed.
  • Contribute to facility quality and governance.
  • Participate in incident management and investigations.
  • Act as a subject matter expert within the multidisciplinary team.
  • Support the delivery of the Manchester strategy.
  • Conduct weekly 1:1 calls for goal setting, progress tracking, and emotional support.
  • Deliver live-streamed and in-person exercise classes tailored to varying abilities.
  • Support learning using journals and the Hub.
  • Manage discharge processes and external trainers.
  • Identify deterioration and escalate clinically as needed.
  • Ensure journals are completed and sessions are scheduled in advance.
  • Deliver health checks and use appropriate entry point scales.
  • Trial and report on community programme efficiencies.
  • Lead small-scale clinical trials when required.
  • Maintain high programme utilisation with minimal DNAs/dropouts.
  • Track participant progress and outcomes.

Skills required:

  • Problem-solving and diagnostic skills

  • Organisational ability

  • Effective decision-making skills

  • Time and resource management

  • Experience working with vulnerable adults

  • Qualifications showing good English and number skills

Helping you feel good.

We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind. Here, you can choose from a range of fitness, lifestyle, health and fitness wellbeing rewards, such as free gym membership, health assessments, retail discounts and pension options. At Nuffield Health, we take care of what's important to you.

Join Nuffield Health and create the future you want, today.

If you like what you see, why not start your application now? We consider applications as we receive them and reserve the right to close adverts early (for example, where we have received an unprecedented high volume of applications). So, it's a good idea to apply right away to ensure you're considered for this role.

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