Job summary
- Main area
- Physiotherapy and Sports & Exercise
- Grade
- NHS AfC: Band 4
- Contract
- Permanent
- Hours
- Part time
- Flexible working
- Job ref
- 380-AC0706
- Employer
- Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust
- Employer type
- NHS
- Site
- Priority House
- Town
- Maidstone
- Salary
- £26,530 - £29,114 pro rata
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Closing
- 11/06/2025 23:59
Employer heading
Sports and Exercise Technician
NHS AfC: Band 4
The CQC rates us as an Outstanding organisation for Caring with an overall rating of Good
Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT) offer a range of ongoing benefits to our valued workforce across the Trust. From an active health and wellbeing programme to regular recognition events, we work hard to provide varied benefits that make a difference to your work-life balance.
Would you like to work flexibly? In the NHS, we are reminded every day of how important life is. As a flexible working friendly organisation, we want to be sure that you can work in a way that is best for us, for our patients and for you.
Speak to us about how we might be able to accommodate a flexible working arrangement.
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Job overview
An opportunity has arisen to recruit a Sports and Exercise Technician who has a keen interest and enthusiasm in Sports and Exercise within the well-established Physiotherapy team . We are keen to recruit an individual who has a wide knowledge of health and wellbeing related to sports and exercise.
Priority House is an acute inpatient mental health hospital which provides care to adults with mental health conditions.
Sports and Exercise Technicians are recognised as essential, core and supportive members of the multi-disciplinary team. You will be part of the sport tech team which is within the physiotherapy service. We are looking for an individual that is motivated in taking part in service development projects. We offer regular supervision, Personal Development Plans, in-service training and support for Continual Professional Development activities.
Main duties of the job
• To provide and promote sport and exercise to service users in an acute mental health inpatient setting, through individual sessions and group setting.
• To educate & motivate service users to adopt healthier lifestyles and provide a range of health promotion activities including the importance of regular exercise, healthy eating, weight management and smoking cessation.
• To work and plan alongside other members of the immediate team and wider MDT, communicating effectively about service users and service changes/developments
Working for our organisation
Come and work with us in the Garden of England where we combine exceptional professional development opportunities with a tremendous quality of life.
We are Kent and Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership Trust (KMPT), providing mental health, learning disability and specialist services, serving 1.8 million people in Kent and Medway, as well as specialist services for adults in Sussex and Surrey. We are rated Good overall by the CQC.
Each year we care for over 2,000 people in our hospitals and 54,000 people in the community.
We are proud to employ over 3,800 people from 66 nationalities, and to serve an increasingly diverse range of communities across rural and urban areas.
You will be joining friendly, passionate colleagues, rich in their diversity, who are committed to providing excellent care to our service users and their loved ones.
The nature of our work attracts kindness and compassion as standard and everyone from our cleaners and porters to the chief executive and chairman are recognised as playing a vital role in providing an exemplary service.
Our strategy
Our mission is what we set out to do every day
We deliver brilliant care through brilliant people
Our vision is where we want to be in the future
To provide outstanding care and to work in partnership to deliver this in the right place, for every service user, every time.
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Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to the attached job description for full details and main responsibilities of the role.
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- BTEC extended diploma/ Level 3 National Diploma in Sports and Fitness/ Personal Training or Equivalent Experience 3
Desirable criteria
- Driving licence
Experience
Essential criteria
- Work in a sports / healthy lifestyles approach
- The ability to work autonomously and as a member of a team
- To be able to work appropriately on own initiative and to be able to undertake delegated tasks independently
Desirable criteria
- Work in mental health setting
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Good written skills
- Ability to be well organised
- Good verbal communication skills
- Being able to adapt own communication style to suit needs of patients
Desirable criteria
- Understanding of mental health conditions
- Understanding of Learning Disability and Autism
- Understanding of group work
- Good IT skills including Word, Outlook and the ability to use RiO electronic records system, or be willing to undergo training
- Ability to reflect on own practice
Personal Qualities
Essential criteria
- Enthusiasm for working in challenging areas
- Flexibility to change and innovation
- To be self-aware and recognise appropriate boundaries in patient/staff relationships
- To be able to work independently and within a team
Desirable criteria
- understanding mental health conditions
Job Requirements
Essential criteria
- The ability to work a variety of hours to suit the needs of the patients and the services
Employer certification / accreditation badges
Applicant requirements
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (Amendment) (England and Wales) Order 2020 and it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service.
Application numbers
Documents to download
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Kathryn Harris
- Job title
- Team Lead Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 07707152007
- Additional information
For additional information and informal visits please contact Kathryn Harris
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