Health and Wellness Promoter (Exercise and Fitness Instructor)
Southern Cross Care
- South Australia
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Be the difference. Enjoy great rewards and benefits.
- Various Casual positions available
- Salary Packaging benefits to maximise your take home pay
- Enabling residents to maximise independence, improve and maintain their health, wellness and quality of life
- Using best practice, evidence based tools to plan and deliver high quality health & wellness services with the emphasis on person centred care and healthy ageing through goal setting, progressive resistance training, health literacy
- Working with a multidisciplinary team to develop tailored exercise programs to meet resident goals and quality of life outcomes
- Engaging in the early intervention process to identify frailty and decline early and intervene early to optimise resident physical function and quality of life
- Implementing organisational programs across all residential homes
- Undertaking audits to ensure all residential Health & Wellness programs operate in accordance with Southern Cross Care procedure
- Ensuring our Health and Wellness Centre has suitable resources for programs and is maintained in a clean and safe manner
- Certificate IV or higher in Fitness, Exercise Science, Personal Training, Exercise Physiology or equivalent including current accreditation with Physical Activity Australia, AusActive or Exercise & Sports Science Australia
- Demonstrated delivery of progressive resistance training programs with older people
- Sound understanding of healthy ageing and that physical function underpins the ability to remain engaged meaningfully in personally valued pursuits
- Ability to efficiently analyse information, respond to and advocate on behalf of customer needs
- Ability to identify best practice fitness program delivery and report to management
- Exceptional interpersonal skills as well as the ability to maintain positive working relationships with external stakeholders
- Strong organisational and time management skills
- Proficient computer and keyboard skills and the ability to use Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Outlook and in-house databases)