Health Check Practitioner

Reed Talent Solutions; England; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A public services provider is seeking a Health Check Practitioner to deliver NHS Health Checks across community venues in Norfolk. This role requires interpersonal skills to motivate participants towards healthier lifestyle choices and flexibility in working hours, including evenings and weekends. The position emphasizes health-related behaviour change and includes comprehensive training. Successful candidates will join a dedicated team making impactful contributions to the local community's health and wellbeing.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Reed Pension Scheme

Professional & Personal Development Funds

Bi-annual pay reviews

Qualifications

• Ability to establish rapport with programme participants.
• Understanding of health-related behaviour change.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work.

Responsibilities

• Deliver NHS Health Check services in various community settings.
• Conduct health check questionnaires and physical measurements.
• Advise participants on test results and promote services.

Skills

Interpersonal communication

Motivational skills

Time management

Organizational skills

Coaching ability

Job description

Overview

Do you have an understanding of, or interest in health-related behaviour change?

Are you skilled in building a supportive, non-judgemental environment with people from all backgrounds?

Then consider the role of Health Check Practitioner at Reed in Partnership!

This is a fixed term contract until December 2026.

Note: access to your own vehicle is essential, as you will need to travel across the Norfolk area.

Who we are

Reed Wellbeing is a public services provider that aims to support people in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Since 2015, we have been delivering a range of evidence-based, person centred interventions and services, including: NHS Health Checks, Smoking Cessation, Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.

Our NHS Health Check Catch-Up programme is a local preventative service for adults aged 40 – 74. It is designed to identify early signs of conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, kidney disease, stroke, and dementia.

What is the role about?

Our Health Check Practitioners are responsible for delivering our NHS Health Check service to eligible residents across Norfolk in community settings such as workplaces, libraries, and public venues. This will involve conducting and assessing lifestyle questionnaires, physical measurements, and taking bloods and blood pressure measurements. Most importantly, you’ll also be motivating individuals to make positive lifestyle changes that support long-term health and wellbeing. All Practitioners will complete comprehensive training in order to carry out the NHS Health Check programme which will include e-learning, lifestyle advice training, group and one-to-one training sessions in carrying out testing, understanding local services, procedures and information governance.

Responsibilities

• Setting up health check workstations at various venues, ensuring participant privacy and safety is maintained
• Conducting NHS Health Check questionnaires, as well as Point of Care testing such as finger prick blood testing and blood pressure measurements in line with Reed Wellbeing’s policy and procedures
• Capturing results accurately and confidentially on Reed Wellbeing systems
• Advising participants of their test results and risk of cardiovascular disease, and signposting them to specialist support if required
• Promoting the service across community venues and distributing marketing literature to increase awareness

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. You will have 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
• With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.

The Health Check Practitioner role allows you to make a real difference in people’s lives by helping them to reduce their risk of cardiovascular health problems and improve their health and wellbeing. 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.

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

• The ability to establish an effective and appropriate rapport with programme participants who need to achieve and maintain lifestyle changes (e.g. healthy weight, increased physical activity, reduction in alcohol intake).
• An understanding of and/or interest in health-related physical activity, healthy eating and health related behaviour change.
• The ability to coach individuals and groups to identify solutions and develop knowledge and skills to support behavioural change.
• Demonstrable time management and personal organisation skills with the capacity to monitor, evaluate and report on work carried out.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.

Desirable Criteria:

• Experience of health check delivery.
• Experience in using coaching skills to help individuals to improve their health and/or physical fitness.
• Fluency in community languages. Community languages may include: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Gujarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).
• An understanding of current guidelines and good practice for health-related physical activity, healthy eating and health-related behaviour change.