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- Address
- Trust Offices
- St Thomas' Street
- London
- SE1 9RT
- Contact Number
- 020 7188 7188
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Advanced Exercise and Rehabilitation Instructor
Closed for applications on: 22-Dec-2025 00:00
Vacancy status: Closed
Closed for applications on: 22-Dec-2025 00:00
Key details
Location
- Site
- Guy's Cancer Centre / Guy's Hospital
- Town
- London
- Postcode
- SE1 9RT
- Major / Minor Region
- London
Contract type & working pattern
- Contract
- Fixed term: 12 months (Maternity cover)
- Hours
- Full time - 37.5 hours per week
Salary
- Salary
- £33,094 - £36,195 p.a. inc HCA
- Salary period
- Yearly
- Grade
- (NHS AfC: Band 4)
Specialty
- Main area
- Physiotherapy
- Interview date
- 05/01/2026
Guy’s and St Thomas’ is among the UK’s busiest and most successful NHS foundation trusts. We provide a full range of hospital and community services for people in south London and as well as specialist care for patients from further afield including cancer, renal, orthopaedic, respiratory and cardiovascular services.
Guy’s is home to the largest dental school in Europe and a £160 million Cancer Centre opened in 2016. As part of our commitment to provide care closer to home, in 2017 we also opened a cancer centre and a kidney treatment centre at Queen Mary’s Hospital in Sidcup. St Thomas’ has one of the largest critical care units in the UK and one of the busiest emergency departments in London. It is also home to Evelina London Children’s Hospital.
Evelina London cares for local children in Lambeth and Southwark and provides specialist services across south east England including cardiac, renal and critical care services. We lead a number of specialist service networks aiming to ensure children are treated locally where possible, but have access to specialist expertise when they need it. Our community services include health visiting, school nursing and support for families of children with long-term conditions.
Our adult community services teams deliver care at the heart of the local communities we serve, working in partnership with GPs, local authorities and other healthcare and voluntary sector organisations. Working with our partners in Lambeth and Southwark, we are focusing on new ways of working to improve care for local patients.
In February 2021 the Royal Brompton and Harefield joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, bringing together world-leading expertise in the care and research of heart and lung disease. Our merger provides a once in a generation opportunity to build a lasting, world-renowned heart and lung centre, providing the highest quality care for patients and conducting world-leading research.
We have a reputation for clinical excellence and high quality teaching and research. We are part of King’s Health Partners, one of eight accredited UK academic health sciences centres. In partnership with King’s College London we have dedicated clinical research facilities including an MHRA accredited Phase I clinical trials unit.
Patients are at the heart of everything we do and we pride ourselves on ensuring the best possible patient experience as well as safe, high quality care. We are proud to have one of the lowest mortality rates in the NHS. Following a comprehensive Care Quality Commission (CQC) inspection in 2019 we maintained our overall rating of ‘good’. Our adult community services achieved a rating of ‘outstanding’.
The commitment of our 23,500 staff is key to our success. We are one of the largest local employers and we aim to develop and support all our staff so they are able to deliver high quality, safe and efficient care. The 2019 NHS staff survey results show that we have one of the most engaged and motivated workforces in the NHS. We know this has a positive impact on the care provided to our patients.
We have one of the most ambitious capital investment programmes anywhere in the NHS.
Job overview
The cancer physiotherapy team at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Trust are calling for a dynamic, and motivated individual, looking for an opportunity to join our Cancer Therapy Team working within the award-winning Guy’s Cancer Centre.
One opportunity exists for an experienced personal trainer, or Band 3 or 4 rehabilitation instructors, looking to develop their skills in cancer rehabilitation and work in an outpatient team.
Applicants would ideally have previous experience of working with people with cancer or a strong desire to do so. The applicants would be providing person-centred assessments and intervention to cancer patients throughout their treatment pathway from prehabilitation to rehabilitation. Successful applicants will be involved in leading one to one and group exercise sessions, delivering these either remotely or in-person, as well as carrying out administrative tasks to support the team. The post holders will be required to support service developments and show flexibility when adapting to and leading change. Excellent communication, organisational and information technology skills are essential for the roles.
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- To lead and participate in physical activity and exercise interventions either face to face, by telephone or over virtual platforms, in 1:1 or group formats, for patients with a cancer diagnosis awaiting treatment (prehabilitation), currently receiving treatment or following treatment.
- To provide individualised advice, information and support using motivational interviewing skills based on risk assessment and patient choice to support patients to become more physically active. This will involve devising individual patient care plans including screening, onward referral, information delivery, goal setting, and identification of barriers, coping strategies and plans for monitoring.
- You will be expected to carry your own caseload of patients and you will have access to a well-equipped gym, with a wide variety of machines, free weights and equipment to enable you to deliver tailored exercise interventions.
- To promote the Guy’s Cancer physical activity pathway, and to be activity involved in health promotion during all stages of patient care.
- To participate in team projects, service development and in-house training.
Working for our organisation
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust comprises five of the UK’s best-known hospitals – Guy’s, St Thomas’, Evelina London Children’s Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield – as well as community services in Lambeth and Southwark, all with a long history of high-quality care, clinical excellence, research and innovation.
We are among the UK’s busiest, most successful foundation trusts. We provide specialist care for patients including heart and lung, cancer and renal services as well as a full range of local hospital and community services for people in Lambeth and Southwark.
We have a long tradition of clinical and scientific achievement and – as part of King’s Health Partners – we are one of England’s eight academic health sciences centres, bringing together world-class clinical services, teaching and research.
We have around 22,700 staff, making us one of the largest NHS Trusts in the country and one of the biggest employers locally. We aim to reflect the diversity of the communities we serve and continue to develop new and existing partnerships with local people, patients, neighbouring NHS organisations, local authorities and charitable bodies and GPs.
We strive to recruit and retain the best staff as the dedication and skills of our employees lie at the heart of our organisation and ensure that our services are of the highest quality, safe and focused on our patients.
Detailed job description and main responsibilities
Please refer to additional uploaded document for job description details and personal specification.
Guy’s and St Thomas’ celebrates, respects and values the diversity of its staff and patients. We review our policies, procedures and practices to ensure that all employees, patients and carers are treated equitable according to their needs. We are actively committed to ensuring that no one who applies for a job, works or study’s at the Trust, or accesses our services is discriminated against on the grounds of race, ethnicity, nationality, disability, religion or belief, age, gender identity , gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity/paternity, or marital/civil partnership.
Applications are welcomed from applicants with a disability. We can make reasonable adjustments and offer support and advice in a variety of ways throughout the application process. Equality of opportunity is our policy.
As an organisation we are committed to developing our services in ways that best suit the needs of our patients. This means that some staff groups will increasingly be asked to work a more flexible shift pattern so that we can offer services in the evenings or at weekends.
Flexible working
We are committed to supporting all employees to achieve a healthy work life balance and to work in a way that is best for them and our patients. We will consider all requests to work flexibly, taking in to account the individual’s personal circumstances as well the needs of the service. We encourage all prospective applicants to discuss their individual circumstances with the recruiting manager as part of the on-boarding process.
Due to recent changes in the UK immigration rules which affect Skilled Worker Visas, Global Business Mobility, Higher Skill Level and Increased Salary Thresholds, please ensure that you are able to meet the requirements to live and work in the UK before applying. Further information about eligibility is available on the UK Government website.
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Applicant requirements
Person specification
Qualifications
Essential criteria
- Personal training qualification
Desirable criteria
- Level 4 Cancer Rehabilitation trained
- Degree in Sports Science or equivalent sports related degree
- Training in Motivational Interviewing
- Yoga/Pilates trained
Knowledge
Essential criteria
- Experience of working as a gym instructor or personal trainer, with groups and individuals, screening, assessing and designing exercise programmes
- Worked in team and contributed to the smooth-running of the team / department
- Experience presenting information to a group or 1:1 setting using communication styles to support behaviour change
- Experience of maintaining a caseload of patients / clients
Desirable criteria
- Experience of working with people with cancer or other chronic conditions in an exercise setting
- Experience using Motivational Interviewing in people with long term conditions
Skills
Essential criteria
- Evidence of being self-motivated and enthusiastically endorse a physically active lifestyle
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Recognises boundaries of own responsibilities
- Awareness of the role of physical activity in the ongoing care of long term conditions and exercise prescription
- Able to present information, written and orally, in a clear and logical manner
- Accurate and competent IT skills in Excel and word and online virtual platforms
- Able to cope with occasional, potentially stressful, upsetting emotional situations or work under pressure
Desirable criteria
- Presentation skills
Further details / informal visits contact
- Name
- Lucinda Pidgeon
- Job title
- Highly Specialist Physiotherapist
- Email address
- [email protected]
- Telephone number
- 020 7188 9654
- Additional information
If you have problems applying, contact
- Address
- 200 Great Dover Street
- London
- Se1 7YB
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