Nutritionist

Maximus UK; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a passionate Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach to empower individuals through tailored nutrition and behaviour change strategies. This full-time role offers a hybrid work environment, allowing flexibility while ensuring impactful delivery of health coaching services. You will engage with diverse participants, providing evidence-based support to help them achieve their health goals. This opportunity not only enhances your professional journey but also contributes to the wellbeing of the community. Join a forward-thinking organization committed to diversity and inclusion, where your expertise can make a real difference in people's lives.

Benefits

25 days holidays + bank holidays

9% combined pension contribution

Qualifications

• Degree in Nutrition or Dietetics with continuous professional development.
• Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions.

Responsibilities

• Provide tailored diet and behaviour change advice to participants.
• Deliver group weight management sessions and support individuals.

Skills

Nutritional Coaching

Behaviour Change Support

Motivational Interviewing

Caseload Management

Data Processing

Education

AFN registered degree in Nutrition

HCPC registered degree in Dietetics

Tools

Case Management System

Job description

This range is provided by Maximus UK. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

• Salary from £25,700 per annum
• 25 days holidays + bank holidays
• 9% combined pension contribution

About the role:

We have an exciting full-time opportunity for you to become our Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach (Nutritionist).

The role is hybrid. You will be expected to work at least one day in the office when delivering on-site. You can work your hours flexibly as long as you can commit to working in the evenings. The role is also Monday-Friday. You will cover sites across Hertfordshire.

The Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach provides individually tailored diet, nutrition, and behaviour change advice to service users/participants (adults and/or children, young people, and families) to manage their weight and make sustainable changes to improve their overall health and wellbeing.

As a Specialist Health & Wellbeing Coach, you will provide evidence-based dietary and behaviour change services via one-to-one and group-based service delivery and ensure operational safety of weight management group programmes. As part of this, you will support your caseload to implement experiments, track behaviours, utilise tech-enabled support, make best use of resources, support each other, explore/use wider community provision and achieve their outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

To provide medium and high-need nutritional and behaviour change services for eligible participants, empowering children, families, and adults to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively and support service users/participants in achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals.

Depending on the needs of the participant/s, they will experience either virtual or face-to-face health coaching group delivery sessions in the community, including but not limited to:

• Supporting the recruitment of individuals to the interventions
• Support our triage and assessment process
• Agenda setting with clients
• Lifestyle behaviour change support to move more, achieve a healthy weight/diet
• Problem solving with adaptability to individual context
• Motivational interviewing
• Signposting to other services if required (e.g., stop smoking, reduce alcohol consumption levels)

Delivery of group weight management that is underpinned by behaviour change methodology and empowers service users/participants to manage their weight and lifestyle behaviours effectively, achieving their own self-identified health and wellbeing goals, ensuring information, advice, and guidance is:

• Engaging
• Age-appropriate
• Informative
• Accurate
• Evidence-based
• Culturally relevant
• Fun
• Resourceful
• Transferable and applicable to attendees' everyday life (experimentation)
• Holistic
• Supportive of wider lifestyle-related healthy lifestyles and habits

What we are looking for:

• AFN registered degree in Nutrition or HCPC registered degree in dietetics with portfolio evidence of continuous professional development
• Experience in delivering group-based behaviour change interventions to children, families, or adults. Evidence of supporting vulnerable individuals through a change process
• Experience of caseload management demonstrated via the use of a Case Management System
• Experience of lesson planning and nutritional/weight management content creation
• Experience of inputting and processing data where accuracy, targets, and time deadlines are operating in the workplace
• Evidence of continuous professional development to ensure the delivery of the most recent and up-to-date health coaching provision to the correct quality standard
• Experience of working in a health, community, or social care environment or good understanding of the issues around maintaining a healthy lifestyle
• A health coaching qualification or an accredited health coaching skills programme is desirable
• Experience of direct health coaching delivery is desirable
• Experience in delivering behaviour change interventions for specific lifestyle-related issues (e.g., smoking cessation, physical activity, NHS Health Checks, weight management, alcohol reduction) is desirable
• Evidence of working with individuals with long-term health conditions is desirable
• Experience of supporting people with additional needs is desirable

EEO Statement

Maximus is committed to developing, maintaining and supporting a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion throughout the recruitment process. We know that feeling included has a dramatic impact on personal wellbeing and are working to ensure that no job applicant receives less favourable treatment due to any personal characteristic.

We are a Disability Confident Leader, thanks to our commitment to the recruitment, retention and career development of people with disabilities and long-term conditions. The Disability Confident scheme includes a guaranteed interview for any applicant with a disability who meets the minimum requirements for a job.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Science, Health Care Provider, and Other
• Industries: Outsourcing and Offshoring Consulting