Exercise and Wellbeing Coach - London, United Kingdom - Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust

Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
Hounslow and Richmond Community Healthcare NHS Trust
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London, United Kingdom

1 month ago

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Do you have a Level 4 Exercise on referral/PSI Qualification with an interest in promoting health and well-being, to reduce the risk of reconditioning of residents in care homes in the borough of Richmond? If the answer is yes, then we have the ideal post for you.


The Care Home Support Team are enthusiastic committed healthcare professionals that have built excellent working relationships with the care homes in the Borough of Richmond.

The team are proud of the service that they have developed and its expansion in improving proactive care for residents, hospital avoidance and for the support and training provided to care home staff.


The Care Home Support Team in Richmond have an exciting new opportunity for you to join our dynamic team as a wellbeing and exercise coach on a 12-month fixed term contract or as a secondment opportunity for a band 4 rehabilitation instructor.

You will be travelling to care homes in the Borough of Richmond to provide and support residents exercise programmes, which can be group or 1:1.

The post holder will develop and deliver exercise and activity opportunities within Richmond care homes with residents that are at risk of deconditioning.

You will work in partnership with care home residents and staff under the direction of the care home support team registered health care professionals.


To develop the role, engage with care home residents and staff to promote their health and wellbeing through exercise activities.

To lead on the evaluation of the role.


To develop resources to support care home staff to continue working with residents to reduce the risks of deconditioning and social isolation.


To network across the local health and social care system linking with current schemes finding opportunities to work together to support the sustainability of the project aims and outcomes.

To work autonomously, organising your work, whilst keeping clinically related records.

About us as a team


The Care Home Support Team is part of the Richmond Adults Unplanned and Integrated Care service which aims to reduce unplanned hospital admissions of nursing, residential and LD disability/ MHresidents in LBRUT.

The team works in collaboration with a network of health and social care professionals

The service operates 5 days a week, Mon - Fri 8am - 4pm

Working for our organisation

Community healthcare is unlike any other part of the NHS. It's personalised care that helps people to retain their independence. It's the NHS at its best and the difference you make is truly tangible.

Our colleagues often describe us as a family, and we know how important that sense of belonging and support is when you start a new job.

It's simple - happy, engaged staff provide better services.

In 2018, we were named 'Best Place to Work for Employee Satisfaction' by the Nursing Times. The same year, we won the Workforce category at the HSJ Awards. In the latest NHS Staff Survey results 2020, we had the best response rate amongst community trusts nationally.

We are the top community trust in the country on the theme Quality of care for the third year.

We had the highest percentage of staff who felt they are able to deliver the care they aspire to and are satisfied with the quality of care they give to patients or service users.

Infection Control


As an NHS Trust we strongly encourage and support vaccination uptake as this remains the best line of defence against COVID19.

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