Health Advisor

Bupa Occupational Health; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 29,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading health organization in Edinburgh is looking for an experienced Health Advisor to support clients by delivering health assessments and promoting healthy lifestyles. The ideal candidate will have a degree in a relevant field and possess strong customer-facing skills. This full-time role offers a salary of £29,000 along with extensive benefits, including health insurance and emotional wellbeing support, aimed at supporting employee wellness and growth.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus flexible options

Enhanced pension and life insurance

Bupa health insurance

Discounted dental insurance

Access to Digital GP platform

Emotional wellbeing support

Family mental health support

Financial wellbeing channels

Qualifications

• Educated to degree level or equivalent in exercise physiology, sports science, or nutrition.
• Experience in a health and fitness or medical environment desirable.
• Ability to motivate customers towards positive health changes.

Responsibilities

• Support health assessments for customers.
• Maintain accurate client records.
• Promote healthy lifestyles according to clinical policies.
• Conduct clinical testing such as heart rate monitoring and blood pressure measurement.
• Create lifestyle action plans to encourage behavior change.

Skills

Customer facing experience

Empathy

Ability to build rapport

Accuracy in information recording

Motivational interviewing techniques

Education

Degree in exercise physiology / sports science / nutrition

Job description

Health Advisor

Edinburgh Clinic EH12 9DQ

Permanent Full time 40 hours a week

£29,000 Fantastic Benefits

We make health happen

Role Overview

As a Health Advisor with Bupa Clinics you’ll be able to use your training and education to support our customers by providing education on how to Live Longer Healthier Happier Lives. Our customers are your priority and you’ll 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
• Anemia 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 action 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 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

Our benefits are designed to make health happen for our people. Viva is our global wellbeing programme and includes all aspects of our health from mental and physical to financial social and environmental wellbeing. We support flexible working and have a range of family friendly benefits.

Joining Bupa in this role you will receive the following benefits and more:

• 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’re 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 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.

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