Health and Wellbeing Engagement and Delivery Coach - Burton-upon-Trent

Salary

£22000 - £25000

Location

East Staffordshire

City

Burton-upon-Trent

Contract Type

Permanent
Part Time

Would you like to work in a customer facing role and make a positive impact on people and their communities?

Consider the role of a Health & Wellbeing Engagement and Delivery Coach at Reed Wellbeing!

We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed Wellbeing is a public service provider delivering lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health.

The main purpose of the Health & Wellbeing Coach is to deliver the group-based health & wellbeing services.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Deliver the ‘Reed Wellbeing’ programmes and other elements of service in a manner that engages and interests all participants.
• Tailor delivery to meet the Participant’s needs and learning styles.
• Creating and maintaining a constructive and confidential learning environment
• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants’ journey i.e. monitoring and recording participants’ progress on weight management.
• Liaise with professionals including GPs and primary care staff to promote and generate referrals to the service.

Alongside a generous base salary and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

Essential Criteria

• Experience of coaching or facilitating diverse participant groups.
• Experience of/interest in working with groups to achieve sustained behavioural or lifestyle improvements.
• Experience of working to targets and driving performance improvement.
• Ability to establish an effective and appropriate rapport with key stakeholders and participants.
• An understanding of health-related behaviour change.
• Active listening skills whilst maintaining a non-judgemental perspective on participant’s lifestyle, weight, and health.
• Ability to communicate sensitively and accurately, information regarding an individual’s health and weight.
• Ability to coach individuals and groups to identify solutions and develop knowledge and skills to support behavioural change.
• Demonstrable time management and personal organisation skills with the capacity to monitor, evaluate and report on work carried out.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.

Desirable Qualifications

• REPs Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent;
• or Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (eg. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent);
• or Level 3 qualification in nutrition;
• or Level 3 Training qualification (eg. PTTLs/Award in Education & Training)

We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria