GM Active is a collective of 12 leisure and community organisations from across Greater Manchester that are all part of the same movement, to get more people physically active. GM Active’s vision is for a network of innovative, responsive, resilient, and high performing Greater Manchester Leisure and Cultural Trusts that deliver transformational health and wellbeing outcomes through collaboration across Greater Manchester’s communities.
Increasingly, exercise and physical activity is seen as standard elements of patient care across cancer treatment pathways. The Prehab4Cancer programme delivers to patients, a multimodal prehab and rehab intervention. Patients are referred directly from primary care to be supported with an exercise, nutrition and wellbeing programme, before and after treatment to improve individual health outcomes. The scheme is independently evaluated (GM_Prehab4Cancer_Evaluation_Report_Final-003.pdf) and has proved outstanding results.
This is a fabulous opportunity to join a uniquely placed, award winning team and to play a leading role in the delivery of a life changing interventions. The scheme has ambitions to continue to innovate and to create world leading outcomes for people affected by cancer across Greater Manchester.
Receiving guidance and support from the Programme Manager, you will be an integral part of the specialist Prehab4Cancer core delivery team coordinating and delivering a varied and insight driven prehab and rehab programme for cancer patients. This role will incorporate both face to face delivery and remote delivery so will have an element of home working.
The post holder will manage the project in a defined geographical area of Greater Manchester during times of annual leave or when the service demands.
The successful post holder will join the Prehab4Cancer core delivery team which is housed within Salford Community Leisure (SCL). SCL is committed to Building a Great Place to Work; with over 500 employees servicing more than 3 million customer visits at 40 venues across the city each year. We exist to ‘enhance the lives of people living in Salford through providing sport, leisure and cultural opportunities.’ We pride ourselves on recruiting the right people with the right values into the right roles. We are looking for professional, respectful, knowledgeable, passionate and solution driven people to join our team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers.
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Greater Manchester Location
GM Active are seeking a highly skilled Exercise Specialist/Physiologist to join the multi-award winning Prehab4Cancer programme. This is an exciting opportunity to join a team that cares deeply about improving the lives of people effected by cancer in Greater Manchester. The scheme empowers patients to take back control of their diagnosis, build resilience ahead of intense cancer related treatment and improve patients’ quality of life.
Trafford
Trafford Leisure CIC is recruiting a new Chair for its Board of Directors. You don’t need to be a sports or physical activity expert to apply for this role. If you have a passion for improving the lives of the Trafford Community through health and wellbeing initiatives, you could be perfect for this role. Our new Chair will be an independent and strategic thinker, experienced in leading and motivating others through periods of change. With a collaborative approach, you will bring an excellent understanding of good governance, sound judgement, and be comfortable navigating a complex environment. The Chair will be a first-class communicator and ambassador for Trafford Leisure, building relationships and advocating for us and our work across various platforms.
