Wellbeing Coach

Seetec; Bridgwater; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A community-focused organisation in Bridgwater seeks a Health and Wellbeing Employment Coach to support clients with health needs in their journey to employment. The successful candidate will provide 1:1 coaching, manage a caseload, and develop tailored interventions. Ideal candidates will have experience in coaching and knowledge of the local labour market, offering a salary range of £26,000 to £29,545, with additional benefits including health insurance and paid volunteer days.

Benefits

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays

Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee / 5% Employer

Health Insurance Allowance

Annual Pay Review

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals with action planning techniques.
• Experience delivering health-specific programmes or coaching.
• Experience in welfare-to-work is advantageous.
• Knowledge of the local labour market.
• Experience in target-driven environments supporting individuals with health issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 coaching to support employment goals.
• Conduct job-search activities and manage caseload.
• Identify barriers to employment and develop interventions.
• Perform health assessments to identify challenges.
• Encourage clients to address health barriers.

Skills

Coaching skills

Time management

Understanding of health and wellbeing

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Overview

Join our fantastic Wellbeing team as a Health and Wellbeing Employment Coach. The aim of this role is to develop a holistic health and employment approach with customers with Health and Wellbeing needs or Neurodiversity, to identify challenges around finding, starting and sustaining suitable employment. Through 1:1 coaching, you'll support customers to build self-awareness, confidence, communication skills and create a solid foundation for emotional wellbeing and ultimately work with them to secure and sustain employment. You'll manage your own caseload of customers, so you'll need to organise your time and record data from sessions onto the content management system.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 coaching to develop self-awareness, confidence, communication skills and emotional wellbeing to support employment goals.
• Organise and conduct job-search activities and manage your own caseload with effective time management.
• Identify barriers to employment and develop evidence-based interventions to support achievement of job goals aligned with health needs.
• Ensure all paper-based employability tools (covering letters, CVs, speculative letters) are in place.
• Perform health-specific assessments to identify health challenges affecting employment and provide health advice using expertise and judgement.
• Encourage customers to address health-specific barriers to work and promote the value of work for health and wellbeing.
• Use knowledge of health and wellbeing and understanding of conditions to enable a return to sustainable employment.
• Record session data on the content management system and maintain accurate customer records.

Requirements / Qualifications

• Experience of supporting and guiding individuals using effective action planning techniques.
• Experience delivering health-specific programmes or coaching.
• Experience in welfare-to-work is advantageous; candidates from other sectors will be considered.
• Experience of working in health promotion or public health.
• Knowledge of the local labour market in the specified geographical area.
• Experience working in a target-driven environment and supporting those with health issues back to work or vocational rehabilitation / occupational health.
• Experience presenting and delivering health or wellbeing related group interventions, facilitating workshops or training sessions through digital technology.
• Ability to build rapport with a diverse range of customers and stakeholders using coaching skills and knowledge of local community support areas.
• Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes.
• Experience delivering services to meet contractual and quality standards.

Desirable

• Qualified health professional registered with HCPC, BACP, or BABCP.
• Knowledge and experience of the employability sector and local labour market.
• Experience of working with people in the provision of information, advice & guidance and Disability Confident.

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Benefits

• Salary: £26,000 to £29,545 p.a. (dependent on experience)
• 25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off (with the opportunity to buy additional days)
• 2 Volunteer Days
• Company Pension Scheme - 5% Employee / 5% Employer
• Health Insurance Allowance
• Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan, including 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
• Free access to BenefitHub with discounts and benefits including Life Assurance, Cycle to Work, and Tax Saver Tickets
• Refer a Friend Scheme

Interested? There's an easy to apply route below to upload your CV. If you need any further information, talk to our experienced Internal Recruitment Team on 01702 595200.

Seetec Group is an employee-owned organisation and we pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the work we do across the UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and every decision we make.