Job Summary
Cardiff Community Resource Team is a community based multidisciplinary team consisting of Therapists, Nurses, Consultants and associated support staff. The team works to support people at home and either avoid hospital admission or facilitate early discharge, with rehabilitation being delivered within the person’s own home. We work collaboratively with Cardiff Local Authority colleagues who provide domiciliary care when required. We work across the whole of the beautiful City of Cardiff to ensure support is delivered to people within their own communities and closer to home. As a rehabilitation coach you will be working specifically with patients who have had a fall, or who are at risk of falls.
The ability to speak Welsh is desirable for this post; Welsh and/or English speakers are equally welcome to apply.
Main duties of the job
The successful candidate will have qualifications relevant to the role and strong knowledge of falls prevention and falls management interventions. They will have previous experience in health promotion and demonstrate excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
Working under supervision of registered practitioners, they will organise and deliver community treatment and evidenced based falls programmes for identified patients in the locality. This will include physiotherapy, occupational therapy and dietetic interventions.
The candidate will be required to work in patients’ home in an unsupervised capacity whilst preparing and carrying out routine elements of patient triage and assessment. Additionally, the successful candidate will have to plan and take responsibility for care/treatment of the community patients they are accountable for.
Other requirements include monitoring patients and alerting therapists when there are unexpected changes, and modify approaches and activities within care/treatment using own clinical reasoning notify a registered practitioner accordingly, utilising evidenced based outcome measures where required.
Person Specification
Qualifications
Essential
- Numerate and literate to GCSE level or equivalent
- Good command of English
- Recognised qualification NVQ level 3, Agored Cymru or equivalent.
Desirable
- Evidence of further education e.g. relevant Health and Social Care qualification, sport science, or other relevant qualification
- Basic Food Hygiene
- Qualified or working towards a Level 4 Exercise Rehabilitation qualification
Experience
Essential
- Health and/or Social Care experience
- Dealing with people both individually or in groups
Desirable
- Working with people
- Previous experience working as a therapy support worker
- Working in the fitness industry.
Skills
Essential
- Ability to communicate with a wide range of people
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good organisational skills
- Ability to work as a member of a team
- Ability to work alone
- Awareness of own limitations
- Ability to motivate people
- Basic IT skills
Desirable
- Database management skills
- Teaching skills/experience
- Ability to use digital technology
Special Knowledge
Essential
- A proven knowledge base in rehabilitation and the role of Therapies
Desirable
- Understanding disability issues
- Understanding of approaches to improving healthy choices in community setting.
Personal Qualities
Essential
- Flexible approach to work
- Adaptable to change
- Reliable and punctual
- Self-motivated
Desirable
- Demonstrates initiative
- Welsh speaker
Other
Essential
- Able to travel, in a timely manner to undertake duties of the post at various locations.
Disclosure and Barring Service Check
This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.
Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).
From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).
Closing Date: 04 May 2026
