• Location – Palmerston North with travel across the MidCentral region
• Permanent, Full-time – 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday
• Primary Health Sector – can you motivate lifestyle change in people with long term conditions?

About us:

At THINK Hauora we are committed to enhancing health and wellbeing within all communities, including Māori, Pasifika, Youth, and LGBTQIA+ communities, across our rohe. We value diversity and inclusivity, and we warmly welcome individuals from all walks of life to contribute to our vision of Connecting Communities for Wellbeing.

THINK Hauora is committed to Te Tīriti o Waitangi and is an exemplar Te Tīriti Partner whose Board and employees actively contribute to the achievement of Pae Ora (Healthy Futures for Māori) across our rohe. We maintain this by expressing and activating the five principles of Te Tīriti o Waitangi across all layers of our organisation.

• Tino Rangatiratanga | Self-determination
• Mana Taurite | Equity
• Whakamarumarutia | Active Protection
• Kōwhiringa | Options
• Pātuitanga | Partnership

The Role:

CEP’s role is to provide education and support to those who face complex and chronic health barriers. They promote healthy lifestyle changes through a targeted ‘service delivery’ that works with the client(s) to ensure improved health outcomes. This includes (but not limited to), clinical assessment, monitoring and evaluation, in-home strength and balance programmes and physical activity programmes. The overall goal is to improve the client’s health, reduce risk and the patient ultimately self-manages their physical activity.

The successful applicant will work with, and provide prescription based physical activity and education to individuals, groups, primary health care teams and health professionals within the Manawatu region. The role will see you directly working within the community and reaching those who may face barriers coming to a practice. As such, this role may see you going to the client to reduce barriers. The overall goal is to improve the client’s health, reduce risk and the patient ultimately self-manages their physical activity delivered in a culturally appropriate way.

We are very interested if you are motivated and passionate about improving health outcomes in the primary care sector and have the below:

• A Clinical Exercise Physiologist qualification with a minimum of 1-2 years’ experience
• Minimum of 2 years’ experience delivering education and support to priority populations
• The ability to motivate lifestyle change in people with long term conditions
• Ability to clearly communicate and adjust communication style to ensure understanding  
• Experience teaching & educating clients, families, whanau & health professionals in a group environment or individually.  
• Experience in sports and/or exercise science
• Ability to work autonomously and as part of a team
• Able to be proactive in helping to reduce barriers to physical activity and wellness such as home programmes.
• Group facilitation experience
• Full and unrestricted Drivers Licence
• Understanding of how the Principles of the Treaty of Waitangi relate to this role.
• Understanding the need for an equity focus on our population/communities health

It would be highly desirable if you are well connected within the primary health community and have professional sport and recreation networks within the Manawatu region.

To apply for this role, please Apply Now via Seek. Applications will be considered as they are received and suitable applicants will be contacted.

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