Wellbeing Coach - Maternity Cover for 6 Months (Yeovil)

Medirest Signature; Yeovil; On-site; GBP 26,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Health and Wellbeing Employment Coach to develop a holistic approach to support customers with health needs. This role involves coaching, managing caseloads, and facilitating group interventions with a competitive salary of £26,000 to £29,545. Join us for a rewarding opportunity to help individuals thrive in their careers!

Benefits

25 days annual leave + Bank Holidays + Birthday Day off

2 Volunteer Days

Company Pension Scheme

Health Insurance Allowance

Employer Paid Healthcare Cash Plan

Annual Pay Review

Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay

Free access to BenefitHub

Refer a Friend Scheme

Qualifications

• Experience working in health promotion or public health.
• Ability to support individuals with health issues back to work.
• Knowledge of local labor market.

Responsibilities

• Provide 1:1 coaching to support customers with health and well-being needs.
• Manage a caseload and organize time effectively.
• Perform health specific assessments to identify barriers to employment.

Skills

Communication Skills

Coaching Skills

Health Promotion

Building Rapport

Education

Qualified health professional registered with HCPC or BACP

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Role

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.

Our ideal candidate will have experience of supporting and guiding individuals using effective action planning techniques. You'll also have experience of delivering a range of health specific programmes or coaching.

Experience of welfare to work would be advantageous however, we are open to candidates from other sectors.

In return for your dedication, knowledge, and commitment, we're offering a competitive salary range £26,000 to £29,545 pro rata p.a. (dependent on experience) with these great benefits:

• 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, incl. 3 x salary life assurance
• Annual Pay Review
• Enhanced Maternity/Adoption and Paternity Pay Arrangements
• Free access to BenefitHub - an online portal with access to a wide range of retail discounts, Life Assurance, Cycle to Work Scheme, Tax Saver Commuter 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 isan employee-owned organisation and we continually pride ourselves on our sense of community, both in the incredible work we do throughout UK and Ireland, and internally with our employee owners. People are at the front, centre and heart of every service we provide and each decision we make.

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Location: Yeovil

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

Closing Date: 23 June 2025

Contract: Maternity Cover for 6 Months

Key Responsibilities

• Excellent people person with very competent communication skills
• Confident to organise and conduct job-search
• Identify any potential barriers to employment.
• Ensuring all paper-based employability tools such as covering letters, CV's, speculative letters are in place.
• Consistently deliver performance outputs against agreed targets and contractual requirements.
• Using 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.
• Identifying evidence-based interventions to support the achievement of job goals that are suited to the customers mental and physical health needs, promoting the value of work for health & well-being, helping to build confidence and the practical and emotional skills to adapt to a working routine.

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

• Desirable a qualified health professional registered with Health & Care Professions Council (HCPC), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP), or British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (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.