Health Coach

Leeds GP Confederation; Churwell; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A healthcare organization in the United Kingdom is looking for a Health Coach to support individuals and families in their weight management journeys. The role involves delivering person-centered programs and collaborating with diverse communities in Leeds. The ideal candidate should have a strong background in nutrition and lifestyle modification. This position comes with a fixed-term contract for one year, with opportunities for personal development and community involvement. If you are passionate about health and well-being, this role is for you.

Benefits

Professional development opportunities

Team collaboration

Qualifications

• Significant experience in lifestyle change support.
• Experience working with diverse communities.
• Knowledge of weight management strategies.

Responsibilities

• Support adults and families in weight management.
• Monitor service user progress and set goals.
• Deliver programs through various formats.

Skills

Lifestyle modification

Nutrition knowledge

Excellent communication

Motivational interviewing

Interpersonal skills

Education

Degree or equivalent in health science

Job description

Working within the Service Delivery Team as a Health Coach within the Weight Management Interface Hub, you will support adults and families who are overweight or obese to achieve sustainable lifestyle change through person‑centred, weight management programmes. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals with lifestyle modification, you will deliver nutrition, physical activity and behaviour change interventions through group, one‑to‑one, community and digital formats. You will build strong relationships with diverse communities across Leeds, monitor service user progress using SMART goals, and work collaboratively with partners to reduce health inequalities and improve long‑term health outcomes

Main duties of the job

Working as a Health Coach you will be working with adults and/or families to support, motivate and advise those who are currently overweight or obese.

About us

Leeds GP Confederation is a collective of GP practices working together to deliver high‑quality, patient‑centred primary care across the city. By collaborating, we share resources, expertise, and innovation to improve services for our communities. Our mission is to support general practice, strengthen local healthcare, and ensure every patient in Leeds receives the right care, at the right time, from the right people.

Job responsibilities

TITLE: HealthCoach

DEPARTMENT ServiceDelivery - Weight Management Interface Hub

LOCATION: WhiteRose Office Park

HOURS OF WORK: Up to 37.5 hours a week

NATURE OF CONTRACT: Fixed term 1 year

ACCOUNTABLETO: Service Delivery & Relationship Manager

ROLE SUMMARY

Workingwithin the Service Delivery Team as a Health Coach within the Weight ManagementInterface Hub, you will support adults and families who are overweight or obeseto achieve sustainable lifestyle change through person‑centred, weightmanagement programmes. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals withlifestyle modification, you will deliver nutrition, physical activity andbehaviour change interventions through group, one‑to‑one, community and digitalformats. You will build strong relationships with diverse communities acrossLeeds, monitor service user progress using SMART goals, and workcollaboratively with partners to reduce health inequalities and improvelong‑term health outcomes

MAIN DUTIES

Working as a Health Coach you will beworking with adults and/or families to support, motivate and advise those whoare currently overweight or obese.

You will be passionate about workingwith individuals to begin the life‑changing processes necessary for permanentand continued weight loss and weight maintenance.

You will understand challenges andbarriers that adults face with relation to their health (both physical andmental) and wellbeing. You will engage with and build a good rapport withadults from varying communities across Leeds.

You will deliver our programmes ofweight management as well as supporting the development of new nutrition andexercise programmes that meet the needs of our service users.

The ideal candidate will be passionateabout promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering motivational change which is personcentered.

You will have a background in healthcoaching, nutrition, exercise, public health, community health or adult and/orfamily weight management and be an excellent team player and have a willingnessto learn and develop.

Duties andResponsibilities will include;

ServiceDelivery

Being part of a wider team that will deliverour adult weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change andexercise delivery to groups and though one‑to‑ones, in the community andthrough digital methods such as video and telephone consultations.

Deliver evidence‑based educationaround nutrition, physical activity and behavioural change

Deliver programmes with a person centeredapproach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing

Monitor service user progress throughregular consultation and identifying specific goals for success

Working with individuals and groupsusing SMART goal setting

Keep detailed consultation notes,recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation iscompleted correctly

Be able to organise own workload inorder of priority and deadlines, daily administration tasks and otherwork‑related activities.

Undertake and complete all mandatoryand additional skills training as required

Service Development

Work with service users and internal/externalstakeholders to co‑produce meaningful session materials

Contribute to the contract performanceby submitting regular case studies to the line manager

Contribute to training and support newstaff

Build community links and partnershipworking to encourage new referrals into the service and maintain close workingrelationships with other community services.

Relationships

Present service and referral pathwayinformation at stakeholder meetings/community events as directed by the ServiceDelivery and Relationship Manager

To attend and actively participate inteam meetings, such as MDT

Personal Development

To demonstrate personal andprofessional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning

To maintain statutory and mandatorytraining in line with the Leeds GPConfederation training matrix

Governance

To work within the Leeds GPConfederation framework of clinical governance in order to maintain and improvepatient care, quality and efficiency

To succeed inthe role, the successful candidate must have;

Significant experienceof supporting people make positive lifestyle change

Significant experiencein working with service users with needs arising from being overweight andobesity

Significant experiencein working with members of the public from varying backgrounds

A passion for helpingto reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups

Working to tightcontractual deadlines and controls

Person Specification

Qualifications

• Evidence of ongoing professional development in field of expertise (weight management, lifestyle modification, general health)
• Depth and breadth of awareness and understanding of key challenges for people that are overweight or obese and strategies to address these
• In‑depth knowledge of evidence‑based approaches to supporting people with positive lifestyle modification
• Degree or equivalent in a health science

Experience

• Significant experience of working in a weight management / lifestyle modification service
• Experience and ability to demonstrate coping with change
• Experience of working successfully with a range of stakeholders both internal and external to the organisation
• Experience of delivering/leading group engagement sessions/lessons
• Experience of working in an NHS or Local Authority organisation

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.