Physical Activity Specialist • Hinckley Everyone Health Ltd
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Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team (MDT), provide specialist prescribed exercise and support in a group regarding the benefits of, and opportunities to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase habitual levels of physical activity, to ensure excellent patient healthcare and contractual outcomes. Support and contribute to the development of all community physical activity delivery as a part of the weight management groups, including any additional physical activity groups to support the groups. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES To plan, organise, deliver, and evaluate the physical activity and prescribed exercise element of the Adult Integrated Community Health Service to adults over 18 years of age. Accept and take responsibility for self-referrals or referrals for those who would like to lose weight and want to become more physically active. Provide comprehensive assessment and provision of individual physical activity advice and exercise prescription, together with on-going support to patients, in group and 1to1 settings implementing skills and knowledge of behaviour change theories. Ensure exercise prescription is continually monitored and progressed regressed, to reflect individual needs. Support the physical activity development, delivery, evaluation, and quality assurance of the integrated service and provide key physical activity expertise to the MDT and other colleagues within and across the wider Lifestyle services, ensuring excellent service delivery. Facilitate and empower patients to change behaviour and adopt positive lifestyle changes by providing health education and evidence-based advice regarding increasing habitual physical activity, helping patients to address barriers to change. To conduct on-going specialist physical activity support for those accessing the service including patient reviews and on-going case management, through 1 to 1 support where required, or support delivery of group sessions, for those who require this level of intervention. Accountable for ensuring programme delivery is monitored using validated tools to collect and analyse patient performance outcome measures and evaluation, to ensure that the contractual KPIs are achieved, and an excellent service is demonstrated; critical and rigorous implementation of all physical activity and functional capacity measures at key milestones across the services, ensuring excellent recording, monitoring, and reporting on patient outcomes. Utilising relevant systems and internal reporting procedures to ensure rigorous data collection, to evidence service efficacy through generation of outcome data, contributing to an internal qualitative and quantitative evidence base, and demonstrate best practice and value for money. Keep accurate records and written reports, ensuring patient personal information is recorded in accordance with Everyone Healths and Local Authority policies; Caldicott Guardian, Information Governance, GDPR, Data Protection and Data Sharing compliance. Work with the Service Manager, Adult Weight Management Operations Manager, Professional Lead for Physical Activity and Clinical Governance manager to achieve continual service improvement and client and patient-centred services in accordance with participant feedback, NICE guidance, national and local recommendations, professional competences and EH policies and procedures, ensuring the service is delivered in line with CQC and HSCICs regulations. Be compliant with all relevant policies, procedures, and guidelines including the appropriate codes of conduct associated with this post; maintain awareness of safeguarding issues, report and acting on concerns in accordance with Everyone Health and Local Authority policies and procedures. Ensure the safety of all patients by undertaking: risk assessments, health and safety checks, equipment checks etc., as directed by the Service Manager and contract safety co-ordinator. Respond to any relevant clinical or colleague issues and incidences to manage a mitigate risk and maintain best practice. To have sound knowledge of common co morbidities associated with obesity and the ability to liaise with the GP and other health professionals / agencies, as necessary. Work as a cohesive member of the Healthy Communities services workforce, through regular communication and liaise with community partners and referrers to ensure the successful of the service. To be responsible and accountable for achievement of relevant contractual targets including referrals, uptake, completion percentage targets and effective outcome measures, through delivery of high standard care. Support community engagement: build a network of key contacts and undertake networking publicity and promotional activity to raise the profile of the service and to identify and engage with target populations. Respect colleagues professional roles and scope of practice, ensuring a supportive and proactive member of the multi-disciplinary team. Take responsibility for own CPD and participate in Everyone Healths induction, training and continual professional development as required; recognise and work within own competence and professional code of conduct as regulated by professional body. Evaluate patients response to health care provision and the effectiveness of care. Ensure that commitment to equality and diversity is reflected at all stages of project planning, delivery, and evaluation, in line with agreed service standards. Support in administrative duties related to the patients where necessary, for example letters to referrers, follow up phone calls, motivational text messages as required. Prioritise, organise, and manage own workload in a manner that maintains and promotes high quality. Be an ambassador for Everyone Health, promoting the Healthy Communities service to members of the public and other stakeholders/ partners, where appropriate. Contribute to the growth of Everyone Health by working collaboratively with Managers / colleagues to develop and have some responsibility for an expanding portfolio of services and products. JOB DESCRIPTION PHYSICAL ACTIVITY SPECIALIST WEIGHT MANAGEMENT MAIN PURPOSE Our Physical Activity Specialists support our service users to improve their health and wellbeing through safely increasing their levels of activity, through Weight Management programmes, through a thorough process of individualised and tailored care, from assessment, delivery and evaluating progress. This post holder will: In line with NICE guidance, be responsible and accountable for the delivery of a high quality, evidence based Physical Activity, and prescribed exercise service for adults aged 18 and over to achieve the patients goals for weight loss and increase physical activity levels. Working as part of a multi-disciplinary team MDT, provide specialist prescribed exercise and support in a group regarding the benefits of, and opportunities to reduce sedentary behaviour and increase habitual levels of physical activity, to ensure excellent patient healthcare and contractual outcomes. Support and contribute to the development of all community physical activity delivery as a part of the weight management groups, including any additional physical activity groups to support the groups. SUMMARY OF RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES To plan, organise, deliver, and evaluate the physical activity and prescribed exercise element of the Adult Integrated Community Health Service to adults over 18 years of age. Accept and take responsibility for self-referrals or referrals for those who would like to lose weight and want to become more physically active. Provide comprehensive assessment and provision of individual physical activity advice and exercise prescription, together with on-going support to patients, in group and 1 to 1 settings implementing skills and knowledge of behaviour change theories. Ensure exercise prescription is continually monitored and progressed regressed, to reflect individual needs. Support the physical activity development, delivery, evaluation, and quality assurance of the integrated service and provide key physical activity expertise to the MDT and other colleagues within and across the wider Lifestyle services, ensuring excellent service delivery. Facilitate and empower patients to change behaviour and adopt positive lifestyle changes by providing health education and evidence-based advice regarding increasing habitual physical activity, helping patients to address barriers to change. To conduct on-going specialist physical activity support for those accessing the service including patient reviews and on-going case management, through 1 to 1 support where required, or support delivery of group sessions, for those who require this level of intervention. "}