Your Day-to-Day Responsibilities Will Include:

Taking Ownership

• Delivering engaging 1:2:1 or group-based health and wellbeing interventions to a caseload of participants either in a face-to-face, remote, or digital setting.
• Support participants in developing tailored SMART support plans with the aim to achieve sustainable behavioural and lifestyle improvements.

Working Together

• Liaising with healthcare professionals including GPs to promote and generate referrals to the service.

Being Fair, Open and Honest

• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants journey and progress (e.g., weight, alcohol intake) on Reed Wellbeing systems.

What’s in it for You?

• A generous base salary (pro-rata for part-time), and great flexibility with your working schedule.
• We offer training, development, and progression opportunities.
• Access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:
  • 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part-time) plus statutory bank holidays.
  • Reed Pension Scheme.
  • Award-Winning Management & Leadership training.
  • Professional & Personal Development Funds.
  • Bi-annual pay reviews.
  • Plus much more that can be found on our website.

The Health & Wellbeing Coach role offers you the opportunity to directly contribute to our mission by actively empowering people to take control of their lifestyle and make sustainable changes. At Reed in Partnership, our values - Fair, Open & Honest, Take Ownership, and Work Together, guide everything we do. Join us in delivering services that make a real difference.

Requirements

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

• An understanding of or interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural change (e.g., stopping smoking, healthy eating, reduction in alcohol intake).
• Physical Activity: REPS Level 3 qualification (e.g., Level 3 Certificate in Supporting Participation in Physical Activity: Long-Term Health Conditions – may be referred to as L3 GP exercise referral) or equivalent (Level 4 qualifications may be required for certain services).
• Experience of delivering group-based sessions or working with PTs on a 1-1 basis.
• Excellent communication skills and able to build rapport with a wide range of people.
• Ability to actively listen, empathise, and provide personalised support in a non-judgemental way.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to deliver programmes across designated region.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Ability to demonstrate coaching or mentoring experience, and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities.
• A minimum of 2 A-Levels or an equivalent Level 3 Diploma.
• GCSE English Language at a minimum of a Grade B (or equivalent Level 2 qualification). OR achievement of a Level 2 in Literacy Assessment at interview stage OR International Equivalents.

Desirable Attributes:

• Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups (e.g., pregnant smokers, smokers with mental illness, routine and manual workers, young people).
• Fluency in community languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian, and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).

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 a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria.