Wellbeing Coach

Seetec; Swindon; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A community support organization in Swindon is seeking a Health and Wellbeing Employment Coach to assist customers with health challenges in securing and sustaining employment. The role involves 1:1 coaching to build confidence and address barriers to employment. Candidates should have experience in health promotion and knowledge of the local labor market. This full-time position supports a flexible working environment, promoting wellbeing and community engagement.

Qualifications

• Experience supporting individuals with health issues back to work.
• Ability to deliver group interventions via digital technology.
• Experience of meeting contractual and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Conduct health-specific assessments to identify challenges.
• Deliver advice to help overcome barriers to employment.
• Manage a caseload and record data effectively.

Skills

Experience in health promotion or public health

Knowledge of the local labor market

Target driven experience

Coaching skills

IT literacy

Education

Qualified health professional registered with HCPC, BACP, or BABCP

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.

Location and Hours

Location: Swindon
Hours: 37 hours a week. Monday to Thursday 8.30 am to 5pm, Friday 8.30 am to 4.30pm

Key Responsibilities

• Excellent people person with very competent communication skills
• Confident to organise and conduct job-search
• Identify any potential barriers to employment
• Ensure all paper-based employability tools such as covering letters, CVs, speculative letters are in place
• Consistently deliver performance outputs against agreed targets and contractual requirements
• Use knowledge in health and well-being, as well as understanding conditions in order to enable a return to sustainable employment
• Perform health specific assessments with customers to identify health challenges around finding, starting and sustaining suitable employment
• Provide health advice using expertise and judgement, encouraging customers to address health specific barriers to work
• Identify evidence-based interventions to support the achievement of job goals that are suited to the customers mental and physical health needs

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Experience of working in health promotion or public health
• Knowledge of the local labor market in the specified geographical area
• Experience working in a target driven environment
• Supported those with health issues back to work/ vocational rehabilitation / occupational health
• Presented and delivered health or wellbeing related group interventions, facilitating workshops or training sessions through digital technology
• Built rapport with a diverse range of customers and stakeholders using your coaching skills and knowledge of local community support areas
• Fully IT literate in using a range of Microsoft Office programmes
• Experience of 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

Additional Information

PLUSS part of the Seetec group, is an award-winning Community Interest Company that supports thousands of people each year to achieve a career and fulfil their true potential. Our employment operations help jobseekers who need the most specialist support to find work. Our enterprise operations run alongside to create direct employment opportunities in a wide range of job roles. The projects give people the opportunity to get involved in local communities, meet new people and have fun through a range of activities.

Pluss is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults and expects all staff to share and uphold this commitment in conjunction with the requirements of the Prevent Duty and the positive promotion of modern British values.

Dependent on the role applying to you may be required to process a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS/DS) check. Seetec support the recruitment of ex-offenders and will not discriminate in any way. Our full policy statement of “Ex-Offenders” can be found on our website under “About us”.

Pluss is an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.