Job Description
The closing date is 22 December 2025
At Defence Primary Healthcare (DPHC) we are an inclusive, dedicated organisation working to provide outstanding care to our entitled personnel.
Are you a Band 5 Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor (ERI) looking for an exciting role, working alongside the military, which offers numerous benefits and opportunities? If the answer is yes, then we are looking to appoint a professional and patient focused individual with a strong commitment to providing a high quality service to work within our friendly and welcoming teams at the Primary Care Rehabilitation Centre (PCRF) Wittering and PCRF Kendrew Barracks.
The vacant post is a full-time position, working 37.5 hours per week. Part-time applications are welcome; however, due to service delivery requirements, any part-time arrangement must be on a job-share basis to ensure full-time coverage.
Could this be the role for you? If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Benefits
* Free parking
* An NHS Pension
* A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
* Pay as you dine facilities
* On-site shop
Main duties of the job
This is a new position with a dual workplace, the incumbent will be primarily employed at RAF Wittering:
The role will be divided on a 60/40 split:
* 22.5 hours at RAF Wittering (Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday)
* 15 hours at Kendrew Barracks (Thursday and Friday)
Working hours will fall within the PCRF opening times:
* Monday-Thursday: 08:0017:00
* Friday: 08:0015:00
The successful candidate will provide a high standard of exercise based rehabilitation including highly specialist work in the musculo-skeletal/sports and training injury area for the population at risk (PAR), meeting Standards for Better Health by using a multidisciplinary approach.
You will provide a positive caring environment, in which patients can expect a high quality professional service. And provide full support to the line manager in ensuring the provision of a comprehensive and professional rehabilitation service for entitled personnel.
About us
Our success depends on our people our Whole Force regular and reservist military, civil servants and contractors, all working as one, working together seamlessly to deliver for us.
Our civil servants are a central part of this Whole Force, developing strategy, making policy, supporting ministerial decision-making and Parliamentary processes. In fact, with over 2,000 different roles working across 650 sites around the world, now really is an excellent time to join one of the largest, most exciting departments in government.
The Ministry of Defence is committed to attracting and retaining people from across the full range of backgrounds and enabling flexible ways of working as the norm. We offer maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks of statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay.
In return, you can expect a department that helps you learn and develop that recognises your expertise and contribution, both as an individual and part of a team.
If you've ever wanted to do more, see more, go further or be better, we have roles in more professions and vocations than ever before. Let's see where your future will take you, together.
Duties and responsibilities for the role include but are not limited to:
* Performing appropriate clinical assessments and to design and implement safe and progressive exercise treatment schedules for all patients after the Medical Officer/Physiotherapist/Clinical Team Manager/ Defence Medical Rehabilitation Centre (DMRC only) has made a diagnosis.
* Communicating effectively with patients to ensure informed consent for treatment, good understanding of their conditions and maximise their rehabilitation potential.
* The Exercise Rehabilitation Instructor (ERI) is to keep a record of all specific treatments given and the individual patients progression/regression in respect of such treatments on Defence Medical Information Capability Program (DMICP) in accordance with the Standards of Proficiency to Practice (SPP). The ERI is to report any finding to the Medical Officer or Physiotherapist.
* Developing and maintaining of their own personal service, and professional standards to the highest attainable levels.
* Providing clinical reports to assist in the comprehensive discharge planning for both referring source and ongoing patient care under other health professionals.
Please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification for the full list of duties.