Job overview
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the UCLH Prehabilitation team. Our Prehab service started in 2021 and is run by a close team who are passionate about improving patients’ fitness for surgery. We now receive about 400-500 referrals per year. Our data shows that all patients have benefited from an improvement in fitness, fatigue and quality of life following completion of the prehab programme, optimising them for their surgery.
Due to the success of the service we have been awarded a Sustainability and Transformation Grant to recruit an additional Prehab Support Worker for 12-months to expand our service.
We are looking for an excellent team player who has experience leading exercise classes and providing one-to-one exercise training to join our team and help grow the service. The current team consists of Doctors, Physiotherapists, Dieticians and admin support. Patients can also be referred for pain management, psychology and smoking cessation as required.
The post holder will be responsible for providing virtual exercise classes, one-to-one exercise sessions, basic nutritional advice and some follow up phone calls. This role is ideal for someone who feels passionately about exercise, nutrition, wellbeing and patient experience. There is some flexibility in the hours and ability to work from home, once established in the role.
Main duties of the job
• Implementation and progression of treatment plans delegated by qualified staff.
• Running of virtual group exercise classes.
• Complete follow up telephone calls with patients on the prehab pathway
• Completion of outcome measures
• Review patient goals and progress as appropriate.
• Explore potential barriers to engagement and escalate as appropriate to wider team
• Reinforce the physiotherapist's advice and patient education.
• Documentation of all patient contact in electronic health records system in accordance with the Trust and professional guidelines.
• Admin tasks to support the running of the service
• Data collection for service improvement and research
• To complete accurate nutritional screening with patients.
• To gather nutritional information from patients.
• To assess tolerance of ONS prescribed by the dietitian.
• To help dietitian to develop and deliver group education to patients.
• To provide basic nutritional advice to patients with support and supervision from dietitian
Working for our organisation
University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UCLH) is one of the most complex NHS trusts in the UK, serving a large and diverse population. We provide academically led acute and specialist services, to people from the local area, from throughout the United Kingdom and overseas. Our vision is to deliver top-quality patient care, excellent education, and world-class research.
We provide first-class acute and specialist services across eight sites:
1. University College Hospital (incorporating the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Wing)
2. National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
3. Royal National ENT and Eastman Dental Hospitals
4. University College Hospital Grafton Way Building
5. Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
6. University College Hospital Macmillan Cancer Centre
7. The Hospital for Tropical Diseases
8. University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
We are dedicated to the diagnosis and treatment of many complex illnesses. UCLH specialises in women’s health and the treatment of cancer, infection, neurological, gastrointestinal and oral disease. It has world class support services including critical care, imaging, nuclear medicine and pathology.
We are committed to sustainability and have pledged to become a carbon net zero health service, embedding sustainable practice throughout UCLH. We have set an ambitious target of net zero for our direct emissions by 2031 and indirect emissions by 2040.