Steps to Health Coordinator - Hengrove Park Leisure Centre - Bristol

Steps to Health Coordinator - Hengrove Park Leisure Centre - Bristol

This is an outstanding career opportunity with a market leader committed to providing a diverse and meaningful range of leisure and culture related activities for the local communities in which we serve.

This is a role where you will get a chance to develop and coordinate a local Exercise Referral Program which includes delivery of exercise opportunities for clients with chronic conditions to standard protocols to ensure an appropriate, equitable and accessible service across the Local Authority

Primary Objectives

• To ensure the safety and enjoyment of everybody using the GP referral programme
• To promote the programme with local health professionals and Parkwood Healthcare
• Maintain partnerships with key agencies, health professionals, communities and organisations to establish and provide structured patient exercise and education programmes. When needed, develop new partnerships
• Maintain high levels of uptake, encourage new ideas to increase participation and retention to physical activity via the scheme
• To analyse statistics from the GP referral programme in order to evaluate the success of the scheme

The Person

• Must be able to gain acceptance and respect from clients and the teams involved.
• Must be able to build strong relationships with customers, clients and employees.
• Must be able to communicate at different levels of the organisation, both listen and direct.
• Must be able to demonstrate clear identification with all customer requirements.
• We are looking for candidates who hold a recognised Level 3 qualification in exercise referral and have experience in delivering prescribed exercise to referred patients. Although not essential experience in building relationships with community and clinical partners to create referral pathways into the service would be desirable.

What can Parkwood Leisure offer you?

• Competitive salary
• Incremental annual leave
• Free gym membership for you and a nominated person
• Employee health cash plan
• Employee discount portal - discounts on travel bookings, high street vouchers, gift cards, cinema tickets, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Pension Scheme
• Company sick pay
• Career progression
• Training and development

Parkwood Leisure is a well established business that is continuously growing. Successful applicants can look forward to joining a company that can offer career prospects and believes in investing in its people.

About Parkwood Leisure

Parkwood Leisure was established over 20 years ago and is now one of the UK's leading operators of publicly owned leisure facilities. Working with Legacy and Lex Leisure, we’re a company that’s proud to deliver a first-class service to each of the facilities we manage and is committed to working with local communities to make a difference and provide a healthier and happier lifestyle to the communities we serve.

How to Apply

If you feel like you’d be successful in this role or are interested to know more, we’d love to hear from you. Please apply with a letter of application and CV by clicking 'Apply'.

The Parkwood Leisure Holdings Ltd Group are proud to be Equal Opportunity Employers that are committed to inclusion and diversity.

If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process. Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.