Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist: Heart and Lung Health

Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist: Heart and Lung Health London, W10 (with travel to community venues and occasional home working)

About Us

We’re Open Age, the charity empowering all older people in London to stay active, stay curious and stay connected.

We believe feeling supported as part of a community is the key to living well for longer – isolation can have a devastating impact on older people, affecting their mental and physical health. Right now, 60% of our members live alone.

But they are not alone.

Open Age is creating an inclusive community for everyone to take part in enjoyable activities – from art to foreign languages, yoga to walking football – whoever they are and however they choose.

No one else does what we do. For over 30 years, our unique ‘meet, move, learn’ formula has been supporting members to get out of their homes and into our community. Our goal is to empower all older Londoners to find their purpose and their people, helping them get more out of life at every age.

We are now looking for a Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist: Heart and Lung Health to join us on a part-time basis, working 28 hours per week over four days, for a fixed-term contract until March 2029, with the possibility of extension subject to funding.

The Benefits

• Salary of £31,000 per annum (pro rata)
• 25 days’ annual leave (pro rata) plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Pension scheme with a 3% employer contribution
• Cycle to Work Scheme
• Employee Assistance Programme

This is a fantastic opportunity for an exercise professional with experience supporting older adults in a community setting with an interest/expertise in chronic respiratory or cardiovascular disease, to join our dedicated charity on a part-time basis, working four days per week.

You'll have the chance to begin or continue your specialist career, broadening your practical experience and strengthening your professional skills. Working alongside a passionate and enthusiastic team, you'll make a significant contribution to a newly funded programme that supports older people to lead healthier, more active and independent lives.

What's more, you'll enjoy a fantastic range of benefits designed to support your wellbeing and work-life balance, alongside part-time hours worked over four days that enable you to pursue a rewarding career whilst making time for your commitments outside work.

The Role

As our Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist, you will co-ordinate and deliver our HealthWorks programme.

HealthWorks is a community-based programme that supports Westminster residents to live healthier lives through local activities and support. The programme will offer a mix of healthy lifestyle activities, talks and workshops, with a particular focus on working with people from ethnically diverse and Global Majority backgrounds.

Specifically, you’ll co-ordinate and deliver healthy lifestyle activities including exercise classes and health education sessions. You'll deliver approximately three exercise classes per week to help participants reduce their risk of heart and lung conditions.

You'll assess individual exercise capabilities and adapt sessions to meet participants' needs, as well as delivering health education sessions and conducting HealthWorks check-ins. These will support participants to set realistic health goals, monitor their progress and access relevant community and health services.

Additionally, you will:

• Work with Marylebone Bangladesh Society and other partners to deliver the HealthWorks programme
• Organise community outreach, taster sessions and health and wellbeing events
• Manage participant referrals, bookings and programme documentation
• Monitor attendance, evaluate outcomes and prepare reports

About You

To be considered as a Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist, you will need:

• At least one year's experience working with older adults in community settings, delivering group exercise classes and one-to-one sessions
• A BACPR, Exercise Referral, Exercise Training for Chronic Respiratory Disease or Postural Stability Instructor qualification, or willingness to undertake relevant training
• Experience prescribing exercise for people with a range of medical conditions
• Experience of partnership working
• Cultural awareness and sensitivity when working with people from diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds
• Strong IT and report writing skills, with the ability to interpret data
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, with the ability to balance multiple timetables and classes
• The ability to travel throughout the service area on a daily basis
• A recognised degree-level qualification in Sport/Exercise Science, Sports Therapy or a related field, or equivalent experience

Please note, the successful applicant will be required to undergo an enhanced DBS check.

The closing date for applications is 5pm on Friday 13th November 2026.

Other organisations may call this role Clinical Exercise Specialist, Exercise Referral Specialist, Cardiac Rehabilitation Instructor, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Instructor, Clinical Exercise Practitioner, Exercise Physiologist, Community Exercise Specialist, Health and Wellbeing Practitioner, or Senior Exercise Instructor.

Webrecruit and Open Age are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business, and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.

So, if you're ready to use your exercise expertise to help older people improve their heart and lung health as our Senior Clinical Exercise Specialist, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency