Gerhard Geldenhuys

• The Back Clinic offers holistic solution in South Africa.
• Using an proven, 20-year-old, treatment protocol, developed by Documentation Based Care (DBC) in Finland to significantly reduce musculoskeletal pain and restore quality of life.
• The DBC treatment protocol maintains 90% success rate in eliminating pain and improving quality of life.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Duties include but are not limited to patient consultation, fitness testing, patient education, exercise program prescription; and one to one supervised training sessions for predominantly patients suffering from back and neck conditions.
• For regulations defining profession scope of Biokinetics, kindly click on link below: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W_MaQDBli6yqiLXcgFFZFlNozO9ws4ph/view?usp=sharing
• Administrative duties include data collection and submission, quality checking of patient files after assessment days to ensure correctness of data before submitting to medical aids for payment, capturing of monthly statistical information for reporting purposes and writing of doctors’ reports to referring specialist for purpose of providing feedback on patient progress.
• Conducting employee wellness days and other health related events for various corporate companies.

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Ensure effective implementation of best-in-class BAGL Group Employee Wellness strategy.
• Input into BAGL wellness policies and strategies, translation and implementation of strategy.
• Establish and implement a plan focusing on lifestyle management for BAGL Group.
• Establish network for physical activity participation within BAGL Group.
• Establish ergonomics process to address wellness requirements of BAGL employee within working environment.
• Establish process in conjunction with BAGL disability fund to address needs of physically injured BAGL employees and BAGL employees on temporary disability due to physical incapacity.
• Completion of organisational analysis / assessments (impact studies, audits), statistics and reports

Achievements:

• Designed and implemented online project management tool to streamline and assist with booking of branches and building sites, due for personal health assessment screening. Outcomes after implementing online booking tool:
• Significant increase in number of personal health screenings completed compared to previous years.
• Simplified and streamlined process flow.
• Data warehouse capability for capturing and storage of personal health assessment screening data.
• Real time up to date personal health assessment site stats and reporting.
• Designed and implemented Group's Wellness SharePoint site.
• Groups COO was very impressed with site and requested that I also assisted all of other HR departments with their sites.
• I subsequently also assisted HR Employee Relations and Group's Sporting Clubs with their site designs whilst I consulted with other HR departments to help finalize their sites
• Due to high number of office-based employees suffering from orthopaedic problems brought along due to their sedentary working postures, I was tasked to create awareness among employees of their own personal ergonomic risk factors whilst encouraging them to take regular active breaks from their workstations.
• I designed and implemented Work Smart Application which would pop up on employee's workstations every 2 hours, reminding them to take active breaks from their workstations.
• Site at launch received thousands of hits creating awareness required.
• Paid attention to detail while completing assignments

Key Responsibilities & Duties:

• Duties include but are not limited to patient consultation, fitness testing, patient education, exercise program prescription and one to one supervised training sessions for variety of health- related conditions, injuries and special populations.
• For regulations defining scope for profession of Biokinetics, kindly click on the link: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W_MaQDBli6yqiLXcgFFZFlNozO9ws4ph/view?usp=sharing
• Administrative duties include data collection and submission, capturing of invoices for payment, capturing of patient files for accounting purposes, capturing of monthly statistical information for reporting purposes and writing of doctor’s reports to referring specialist for purpose of providing feedback on patient progress.
• Conducting fitness assessments on behalf of various medical schemes and insurance agencies.
• Conducting physical health assessment screening at various corporate companies.
• Conducting employee wellness days and other health related events for various corporate companies.
• Heading up full range of gymnasium management services to Absa bank on behalf of company which included day-to-day operations, repair and maintenance services to gymnasium equipment, group class instructors, personal trainers and biokineticists.