This range is provided by Maximus UK. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.
Base pay range
* Salary from £25,700 per annum
* 25 days holidays + bank holidays
* 9% combined pension contribution
About the role:
We have an exciting full-time opportunity for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist).
The role is hybrid. You will be expected to work at least one day 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 Hertfordshire.
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 delivery 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 of 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
* Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels)
Delivery of 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' everyday life (experimentation)
* Holistic
* Supportive of wider lifestyle-related healthy lifestyles and habits
What we are looking for:
* 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 children, 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
* A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme is desirable
* Experience of direct health coaching delivery is desirable
* Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle-related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction) is desirable
* Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions is desirable
* Experience of supporting people with additional needs is desirable
EEO Statement
Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic.
We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job.
Seniority level
* Associate
Employment type
* Full-time
Job function
* Science, Health Care Provider, and Other
* Industries: Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting
#J-18808-Ljbffr