Health & Wellbeing Practitioner

We are recruiting a Health and Wellbeing Practitioner to join our team and support the ongoing development of Thistle’s rehabilitation and self-management support for people living with Long Term Conditions. The role has a specific focus on promoting physical activity and the successful candidate will be responsible for overseeing Thistle’s Physical Activity Programme including our community-based gym, outdoors programme and peer led activities which promote physical activity.

The successful candidate will also work closely with our Training and Consultancy team to ensure effective modelling of Thistle’s approach to generic, non-specialist rehabilitation within our Centre of Wellbeing. This will include hosting site visits, and supporting secondments, and student placements.

About You

The successful candidate will:

• Be a health and social care practitioner with experience of supporting people living with long term physical and mental Health Conditions to self-manage.
• Have an exercise professional /rehabilitation background and recognise the value of a generic, non-specialist approach to rehabilitation and supported self-management.
• Be able to cope well supporting vulnerable people who experience significant psychosocial barriers and health inequalities.
• Hold a firm belief that people have strengths, are resilient and are experts in their own lives.
• Have good solution focused coaching and group facilitation skills.

In return we can offer you the following:

• A highly attractive work environment.
• Support and supervision from your line manager and a supportive team of colleagues.
• A structured development programme including continuous learning with our internal leadership development programme.

Some of our other staff benefits include…

• a contributory pension
• a non-contributory death in service benefit scheme
• Free access to the Thistle Gym
• FREE membership* of the HSF Health Plan which gives, amongst other things,
  • money back for everyday healthcare costs,
  • a GP advice line,
  • shopping discounts.

*This membership can be extended to cover immediate family members after completion of a satisfactory probationary period.  

For further information please view the role profile here.

Closing date for receipt of your cover letter advising how you meet the requirements outlined in this advert and person specification and CV is Sunday 28^th September. Please note, the cover letter will be used to shortlist applicants for interview.

Please send to recruitment@thistle.org.uk  Please do not complete an application form.

• Interview will take place at Thistle’s Centre of Wellbeing, Queen’s Walk, Edinburgh on Wednesday 8^th October.

Thistle Foundation is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Successful applicants will be subject to a PVG check.

Job Ref: HWB255