Maximus

We have an exciting full time opportunity for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist).

The role is hybrid role. You will be expected to work at 2 least days in the office when delivering on site. You can work your hours flexibly as long as you can commit to working in the evenings. The role is also Monday-Friday. You will cover sites across Gloucestershire when required.

The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users / participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service deliver and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore / use wider community provision and achieve their outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide medium and high need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively and support service users / participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals.

Depending on the needs or the participant/s, they will experience either virtual or face-to-face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to:

• Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventions
• Support our triage and assessment process
• Agenda setting with clients
• Lifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/diet
• Problem solving with adaptability to individual context
• Motivational interviewing
• Goal setting
• Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels)

Delivery group weight management that is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users / participants to manage their weight and lifestyle-behaviours effectively achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice and guidance is:

• Engaging
• Age-appropriate
• Informative
• Accurate
• Evidence-based
• Culturally relevant
• Fun
• Resourceful
• Transferable and applicable to attendees every-day life (experimentation)
• Holistic
• Supportive of wider lifestyle related healthy lifestyles and habits

Note: This is not an exhaustive list. The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach is expected to carry out all other duties as may be reasonably required.

Salary: Non-London £25700 - £28800

London £28300 - £31300

Qualifications & Experience

Essential

• AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to child, families or adults. Evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change process
• Experience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management System
• Experience of lesson planning and nutritional / weight management content creation
• Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets and time deadlines are operating in the workplace
• Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up to date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard
• Experience of working in a health, community or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle Desirable:
• A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme.
• Experience of direct health coaching delivery
• Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction)
• Evidence of working with individuals with long term health conditions
• Experience of working in community settings
• Experience of managing own caseload
• Experience of supporting people with additional needs

Individual Competencies

Essential

• A strong understanding of the social determinants of health
• A strong understanding of population-based approaches including segmentation and risk stratification. A strong understanding of behaviour change principles and methodology including the COM-B model and behaviour change wheel
• Excellent oral and written communication skills with people from a wide variety of backgrounds
• Good presentation skills and ability to work effectively with individuals and groups (adults and/or children).
• Good understanding of principles of confidentiality and safeguarding
• Demonstrate core skills and competencies as set out in best practice standards including:
• Practice in line with professional conduct and practice
• Describe the relationship between different metabolic pathways and how these might differ depending on individual context
• Describe what nutrients are and how they are used by the body
• Explain the nature of common conditions that require dietary manipulation or affect physical activity e.g. obesity
• Understand, appraise and communicate latest nutritional research
• Excellent internal and external stakeholder engagement and management
• Good understanding of principles of confidentiality and safeguarding
• A strong track record of interpersonal relationships including the ability to build, develop and maintain relationships
• Effective caseload management inclusive of accurate data collection, data entry, timely recording, and delivery against agreed Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
• Confident in the use of evolving digital technologies to support people through behaviour change processes. The ability to manage time independently and effectively and work to deadlines
• Effective safe and sensitive data management in line with information security standards
• Excellent Microsoft Office skills and ability to learn quickly when using news systems and processes
• Commitment to personal development and training
• Commitment to flexible working (including evenings and weekends), ensuring the service is available to all residents including, those who work during the day, shift workers and those with children of school age
• Commitment to supporting overall team/contract performance to the highest standards, undertaking a range of duties in line with business requirements

Desirable

• Experience of delivery health screening services (e.g., NHS Health Check)
• Effective delivery of programmes in line with contractual requirements and SLAs
• Experience of planning, conducting, analysing and reporting on nutrition research