Health Advisor

Richmond Villages; Chelmsford; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health and wellness organization is seeking a dedicated Health Advisor to work in their Chelmsford Clinic. This role will involve supporting health assessments and providing education to help customers lead healthier lives. Candidates must possess a degree in relevant fields and have customer-facing experience. The position offers a competitive salary of £27,600 and fantastic benefits, including holiday options and health insurance.

Benefits

25 days holiday per year

Enhanced pension

Bupa health insurance

Dental insurance

Access to Digital GP platform

Emotional wellbeing support

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in exercise physiology/sports science/nutrition essential.
• Customer facing experience essential.
• Experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness or medical environment would be desirable.

Responsibilities

• Support the service delivery of health assessments to customers.
• Maintain accurate client records.
• Promote and encourage a healthier lifestyle.

Skills

Customer facing experience

Ability to build rapport with customers

Empathy and ability to motivate customers

Education

Degree in exercise physiology/sports science/nutrition

Job description

Job Description

Health Advisor

Location: Chelmsford Clinic, CM1 1HF

Permanent – £27,600 + Fantastic Benefits

Full time – 40 hours a week

As a clinician at Bupa, our patients will be your top priority. With no shareholders, we reinvest our profits back into our business to give you the extra time and technology you need to make a difference to our patients each and every day.

As a Health Advisor with Bupa Clinics, you will use your training and education to support our customers by providing education on how to live longer, healthier, happier lives. Your customers are your priority and you will spend the majority of your time with them doing what you do best and what you trained for.

Responsibilities

• Support the service delivery of health assessments to customers.
• Maintain accurate client records and get involved in the end to end process.
• Promote and encourage a healthier lifestyle in accordance with Bupa's current clinical policies.
• Carry out clinical testing including body composition analysis, spirometry, heart rate monitoring, gas analysis, diabetes blood test markers, blood pressure measurement, cholesterol profiling, anaemia blood test markers, electrocardiograms, audiometry, functional movement screening.
• Create individual lifestyle action plans using motivational interviewing techniques to promote behaviour change.
• Post assessment calls to support positive change and actions plans.

Key Skills / Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in exercise physiology/sports science/nutrition essential.
• Customer facing experience essential.
• Experience of performing measurement or assessment in a health and fitness or medical environment would be desirable.
• Accuracy in information recording and working within clinical guidelines.
• Ability to build rapport with customers, tailoring your approach to individuals.
• Empathy and ability to motivate customers to make positive health changes.

Benefits

• Equivalent to 25 days holiday per year, increasing through length of service, with option to buy or sell.
• Enhanced pension and life insurance.
• Bupa health insurance as a benefit in kind.
• Option to join dental insurance scheme at a discounted rate.
• Access to our Digital GP platform on your mobile.
• Emotional wellbeing support.
• Access to family mental health line.
• Financial wellbeing channels.

Why Bupa?

We are a health insurer and provider. With no shareholders, our customers are our focus. Our people are all driven by the same purpose – helping people live longer, healthier, happier lives and making a better world. We make health happen by being brave, caring and responsible in everything we do.

We encourage all of our people to “Be you at Bupa”, we champion diversity, and we understand the importance of our people representing the communities and customers we serve That’s why we especially encourage applications from people with diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Bupa is a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This means we aim to offer an interview/assessment to every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the role. We’ll make sure you are treated fairly and offer reasonable adjustments as part of our recruitment process to anyone that needs them.

At Bupa we strive to ensure all our of customers, patients and staff are safe. All employees have a duty to ensure that safeguarding children, young people and adults at risk is prioritised and acted on appropriately.