Health Check Practitioner - Community Wellness Coach

80 Reed in Partnership Ltd; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Pension scheme

Training & development

Job summary

Reed in Partnership is hiring a Health Check Practitioner to deliver NHS Health Checks across Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. The role requires travel to various community and primary care settings, setting up workstations, conducting health checks, blood pressure measurements and risk communication with participants.

The successful candidate will undergo comprehensive training, engage with diverse communities, and promote health and wellbeing services.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups.
• Experience of/interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural or lifestyle changes.
• Experience of delivering brief advice support.
• 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.

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.

Job description

Reed in Partnership is hiring a Health Check Practitioner to deliver NHS Health Checks across Kensington, Chelsea and Westminster. The role requires travel to various community and primary care settings, setting up workstations, conducting health checks, blood pressure measurements and risk communication with participants.

The successful candidate will undergo comprehensive training, engage with diverse communities, and promote health and wellbeing services.