Health and Wellbeing Practitioner

Health and Wellbeing Practitioner (Rehabilitation and Self:Management Support)

Location : Edinburgh EH16 4EA

Salary: A GBP 29,616 per annum FTE, plus generous benefits package

The organisation are recruiting a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join their team and support the ongoing development of the rehabilitation and self:management support for people living with long term conditions.

The Role

The role has a specific focus on offering 1:1 coaching and group based self:management support to people limited by symptoms such as chronic pain and fatigue. A key feature of this work is supporting people to become more active using pacing and structured graded activity approaches.

The successful candidate will also work closely with their Physical Activity Programme Lead and support the delivery of their community:based gym and peer led activities which promote physical activity.

The successful candidate will also work closely with their Training and Consultancy team to ensure effective modelling of their approach to generic, non:specialist rehabilitation within their Centre of Wellbeing. This will include hosting site visits, and supporting secondments, and student placements.

Skills And Qualifications

The successful candidate will:

• Be a health and social care practitioner with experience of supporting people living with long term physical and mental Health Conditions to self:manage.
• Have an exercise professional /rehabilitation background and recognise the value of a generic, non:specialist approach to rehabilitation and supported self:management.
• Be able to cope well supporting vulnerable people who experience significant psychosocial barriers and health inequalities.
• Hold a firm belief that people have strengths, are resilient and are experts in their own lives.
• Have good solution focused coaching and group facilitation skills.
  
  

Benefits

• A highly attractive work environment.
• Support and supervision from your line manager and a supportive team of colleagues.
• A contributory pension
• A non:contributory death in service benefit scheme
• Free access to their Gym
• FREE membership* of the HSF Health Plan which gives, amongst other things,
• Money back for everyday healthcare costs,
• A GP advice line,
• Shopping discounts.
• This membership can be extended to cover immediate family members after completion of a satisfactory probationary period.
  
  

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