Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Grade
- Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time - 20 hours per week
- Job ref
- 200-8366715-DE-PT
- Employer
- St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- St Georges Hospital
- Town
- Tooting
- Salary
- £34,186 - £37,389 pa pro-rata incl HCAS (inner)
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 16/11/2026 23:59
Employer heading
Exercise Facilitator
Band 4
Job overview
To provide personalised exercise programmes to clients of differing ability and ensuring their safe and competent use of the gymnasium equipment and facilities
Main duties of the job
Successful candidates will:
· Be responsible for induction sessions for new gym members
· Plan individual and group fitness programmes and activities.
· Assist the Senior fitness instructor and other staff in the running of the weekly timetable for the gym
· Ensure a safe environment for service users and staff though regular inspections of the facilities, gym and equipment.
Working for our organisation
With nearly 9,000 dedicated staff caring for patients around the clock, they are the largest healthcare provider in southwest London.
Their main site, St George’s Hospital in Tooting – one of the country’s principal teaching hospitals – is shared with St George’s, University of London, which trains medical students and carries out advanced medical research. St George’s Hospital also hosts the St George’s, University of London and Kingston University Faculty of Health and Social Care Sciences, which is responsible for training a wide range of healthcare professionals from across the region.
As well as acute hospital services, they provide a wide variety of specialist care and a full range of community services to patients of all ages following integration with Community Services Wandsworth in 2010.
St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust serves a population of 1.3 million across southwest London. A large number of services, such as cardiothoracic medicine and surgery, neurosciences and renal transplantation, also cover significant populations from Surrey and Sussex, totalling around 3.5 million people.
The trust also provides care for patients from a larger catchment area in southeast England, for specialties such as complex pelvic trauma. Other services treat patients from all over the country, such as family HIV care and bone marrow transplantation for non-cancer diseases. The trust also provides a nationwide state-of-the-art endoscopy training centre.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
*****Please see the attached supporting document which contains more information about the role*****
** The vacancy may close earlier than the advised date, depending on the volume of applicants**
Person specification
Education/Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Recognised qualification demonstrating ability to instruct, direct or guide exercise prescription and progression (e.g Sports science, Fitness instructor level 2 /personal trainer level 3)
- Level 3 in Exercise Referral (or working towards)
Desirable criteria
- Registration with relevant registered body e. g CISMPA /ACSM ECDL
- Certificate in group training or circuit training
- NVQ 3 or Foundation degree
- Any relevant Level 4 qualification eg Cancer Rehabilitation, Postural Stability Instructor etc
Experience
Essential criteria
- Experience in the Leisure industry or a gym with organising and teaching a variety of exercise and movement related activities
- Experience of screening clients, and designing individual and group-based exercise programmes
- Knowledge of fitness equipment and ability to demonstrate exercise prescription skills
- Experience of working as part of a team
- Delivering individualised rehabilitation and adapting exercise and communication to different client needs
Desirable criteria
- Experience of teaching and supervising others
- Working in a diverse community.
- Disability awareness
- Previous experience working within the NHS in similar roles
Skills/ Abilities/ attributes
Essential criteria
- Excellent organisational skills
- Excellent interpersonal skills including good written and verbal communication.
- Able to risk assess and ensure safety of service users, taking appropriate actions to report and mitigate against risk.
- Ability to reflect and use initiative in addressing own learning needs and appraise own performance.
- Ability to manage own time and own workload with willingness to work flexibly and be self- motivated.
Desirable criteria
- Good IT skills and ability to use electronic documentation systems.
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Knowledge of fitness equipment and ability to demonstrate advanced exercise prescription skills
- Knowledge of anatomy including main muscle and joints
- Knowledge of health and safety policies
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge and experience of a range of manual handling techniques
- Basic understanding of proper and safe use of wheelchairs
Other
Essential criteria
- Patient, sensitive, flexible and adaptable approach to the understanding of, and working with the differing needs of the service users
- Physically able to assist in moving and positioning people and equipment
- Able to work harmoniously with a diverse workforce and to deliver quality service to people from different backgrounds by including and embracing their varied needs
- Professional demeanour and behaviour reflective of trust values.
- Able to comply with trust policies
Employer certification / accreditation badges
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Applicant requirements
You must have appropriate UK professional registration.
The postholder will have access to vulnerable people in the course of their normal duties and as such this post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Isabel Morgan
- Job title
- Bader Gym Exercise Facilitator
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 02087251422
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