This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and motivated individual to join the UCLH Prehabilitation team. Our Prehab service started in 2021 and is run by a close team who are passionate about improving patients’ fitness for surgery. We now receive about 400-500 referrals per year. Our data shows that all patients have benefited from an improvement in fitness, fatigue and quality of life following completion of the prehab programme, optimising them for their surgery.
Job Title: Prehab Support Worker
Job Type: Full-time
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Salary: 33,094 – 36,195 £ / Year
Location: London, United Kingdom
Deadline: 26 October 2025
Main duties of the job
- Implementation and progression of treatment plans delegated by qualified staff.
- Running of virtual group exercise classes.
- Complete follow up telephone calls with patients on the prehab pathway
- Completion of outcome measures
- Review patient goals and progress as appropriate.
- Explore potential barriers to engagement and escalate as appropriate to wider team
- Reinforce the physiotherapist’s advice and patient education.
- Documentation of all patient contact in electronic health records system in accordance with the Trust and professional guidelines.
- Admin tasks to support the running of the service
- Data collection for service improvement and research
- To complete accurate nutritional screening with patients.
- To gather nutritional information from patients.
- To assess tolerance of ONS prescribed by the dietitian.
- To help dietitian to develop and deliver group education to patients.
- To provide basic nutritional advice to patients with support and supervision from dietitian
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