Health Coach

Reed Talent Solutions; King's Lynn; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A health and wellbeing organization in King's Lynn is seeking a part-time Stop Smoking Coach to deliver supportive interventions aimed at helping participants quit smoking. The role requires excellent communication skills, flexibility to work evenings and weekends, and experience in coaching or mentoring. The position offers training, generous leave, and the chance to make a significant difference in the local community.

Benefits

25 days annual leave (pro-rata)

Reed Pension Scheme

Award Winning Management & Leadership training

Professional & Personal Development Funds

Bi-annual pay reviews

Qualifications

• Understanding of or interest in working with individuals for health-related behavior change.
• Ability to empathize and provide personalized support in a non-judgemental way.
• Willingness to travel to deliver programs across the designated region.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the ‘Reed Wellbeing Stop Smoking' Program to participants.
• Capture key metrics and monitor progress of participants.
• Liaise with professionals to promote and generate referrals to the service.

Skills

Excellent communication skills

Ability to actively listen

Coaching or mentoring experience

Persuasion/influencing skills

Understanding of health-related behaviour change

Fluency in community languages

Education

REPS Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent

Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion

NCSCT Certificate in Assessment of Knowledge & Skills

Job description

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

Are you passionate about supporting people to make healthier lifestyle choices?

Then consider the role of a Stop Smoking Coach at Reed Wellbeing!

Please note, this is a part time role for 2.5 days a week, and will require flexibility to work evenings and weekends.

Formed in 2015, Reed Wellbeing has expanded rapidly, developing, and delivering evidence-based lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health. Guided by psychologists, dietitians, physical activity experts and other specialists our local teams support people to make sustainable, positive behavioural changes using engaging and interactive interventions that address individuals’ needs.

What is the job is about?

Stop Smoking Coaches are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing’s world class evidence-based health and wellbeing behavioural lifestyle interventions. Comprising of both group-based and one-to-one health and wellbeing interventions, the Stop Smoking Coach will be responsible for delivering a series of stop smoking appointments over a 12-week period with the intention of supporting a participant through their quit journey with behavioural support and pharmacotherapies.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Delivering the ‘Reed Wellbeing Stop Smoking’ Program and other elements of service in a manner that engages and interests all participants on a 1:2:1 and group basis.
• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants’ journey i.e. monitoring and recording participants’ progress on their quit date.
• Liaising with professionals including GPs and primary care staff to promote and generate referrals to the service.

What’s in it for you?

Alongside a generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. All travel for sessions will be reimbursed, and you will have access to the full range of Reed Wellbeing benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time)
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more

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

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

• An understanding of or interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve health-related behaviour change, such as losing weight, moving more, eating better or stopping smoking.
• Excellent communication skills and ability to build rapport with a wide range of people.
• Ability to actively listen, empathise and provide personalised support in a non-judgemental way
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to deliver programmes across designated region.
• Ability to demonstrate coaching or mentoring experience, and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities

Desirable Attributes:

• Fluency in community languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• REPS Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent, or
• Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (e.g. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent); or
• Level 3 qualification in nutrition; or
• Level 3 Training qualification (e.g. PTTLs / Award in Education & Training) or
• NCSCT Certificate in Assessment of Knowledge & Skills to become an accredited and registered Smoking Cessation Practitioner including the following areas smoking cessation, mental health, pregnancy and post-partum period, VBA and second-hand smoke.
• Experience of delivery group-based health or physical activity or advice & guidance interventions.