Work and Health Coach

Allied Health Professionals Suffolk CIC; Nacton, Greater London; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Allied Health Professionals Suffolk CIC is recruiting for a WorkWell Coach to join the new Suffolk WorkWell service, created in partnership with Suffolk Mind. You will build trusted relationships, assess needs and coordinate practical support across health, employment, skills and community services to help people stay in or return to work.

The role focuses on early-intervention, low-intensity work and health support, with person-centred care and equality in recruitment.

Qualifications

• Experience of providing one-to-one coaching, advice, guidance or support.
• Experience of working with people facing health, disability, employment or wider social barriers.
• Understanding of person-centred assessment, goal setting and behaviour.
• Awareness of safeguarding, confidentiality, professional boundaries and risk escalation.
• Ability to manage a caseload and work independently with supervision.

Responsibilities

• Complete holistic assessments and co-produce practical WorkWell plans with clear goals.
• Provide personalised coaching and low-intensity work and health support.
• Work with employers, with participant consent, to explore support, adjustments and sustainable return-to-work options.
• Connect participants with the right local services through warm handovers and joined-up support.

Skills

One-to-one coaching

Active listening

Organisational skills

Empathic and inclusive approach

Caseload management

Safeguarding awareness

Education

Level 3 qualification or equivalent in health, wellbeing, employment, coaching or community support

Job description

This is anexciting opportunity to join Suffolks new WorkWell service, delivered inpartnership with Suffolk Mind, and make a difference by helping people overcomehealth-related barriers so they can remain in, return to, or start employment.You will build trusted relationships, understand what matters to eachparticipant, and coordinate practical support across health, employment, skillsand community services.

WorkWell is an early-intervention work and health service with a focus on prevention, which includes holistic support for their health-related barriers to employment. It will provide evidence based, low intensity work and health assessments that support individuals with their low-level occupational health needs to overcome barriers to work.

If you enjoyhelping people identify their strengths, overcome barriers and take practicalsteps towards good work, we would love to hear from you. We welcomeapplications from candidates who meet the essential criteria and share ourcommitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and person-centred care.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Main duties of the job

Make a difference you will:

Complete holistic assessments andco-produce practical WorkWell plans with clear goals

Provide personalised coaching andlow-intensity work and health support

Work with employers, withparticipant consent, to explore support, adjustments and sustainablereturn-to-work options

Connect participants with theright local services through warm handovers and joined-up support

Job summary

This is anexciting opportunity to join Suffolks new WorkWell service, delivered inpartnership with Suffolk Mind, and make a difference by helping people overcomehealth-related barriers so they can remain in, return to, or start employment.You will build trusted relationships, understand what matters to eachparticipant, and coordinate practical support across health, employment, skillsand community services.

WorkWell is an early-intervention work and health service with a focus on prevention, which includes holistic support for their health-related barriers to employment. It will provide evidence based, low intensity work and health assessments that support individuals with their low-level occupational health needs to overcome barriers to work.

If you enjoyhelping people identify their strengths, overcome barriers and take practicalsteps towards good work, we would love to hear from you. We welcomeapplications from candidates who meet the essential criteria and share ourcommitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and person-centred care.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Job summary

This is anexciting opportunity to join Suffolks new WorkWell service, delivered inpartnership with Suffolk Mind, and make a difference by helping people overcomehealth-related barriers so they can remain in, return to, or start employment.You will build trusted relationships, understand what matters to eachparticipant, and coordinate practical support across health, employment, skillsand community services.

WorkWell is an early-intervention work and health service with a focus on prevention, which includes holistic support for their health-related barriers to employment. It will provide evidence based, low intensity work and health assessments that support individuals with their low-level occupational health needs to overcome barriers to work.

If you enjoyhelping people identify their strengths, overcome barriers and take practicalsteps towards good work, we would love to hear from you. We welcomeapplications from candidates who meet the essential criteria and share ourcommitment to equality, diversity, inclusion and person-centred care.Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Main duties of the job

Make a difference you will:

Complete holistic assessments andco-produce practical WorkWell plans with clear goals

Provide personalised coaching andlow-intensity work and health support

Work with employers, withparticipant consent, to explore support, adjustments and sustainablereturn-to-work options

Connect participants with theright local services through warm handovers and joined-up support

What youll bring:

Experience of coaching, advising,guiding or supporting people one to one

Excellent listening,communication and organisational skills

An empathic, inclusive andstrengths-based approach

Confidence managing a caseload,maintaining records and seeking advice when needed

Why join us?

A rare opportunity to help shapea new service supporting better health and employment outcomes across Suffolk

A varied community-based rolewith training, supervision and multidisciplinary support

A supportive organisation withestablished clinical governance.

We are a supportive employercommitted to helping our people thrive through comprehensive training,development and ongoing support

About us

We are a supportive employer committed to helping our people thrive through comprehensive training, development and ongoing support

Reasonable adjustments are available throughout recruitment and employment.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached job description for further information regarding the role of Work and Health Coach

Person Specification

Experience

Essential

• Experience of providing one-to-one coaching, advice, guidance or support
• Experience of working with people facing health, disability, employment or wider social barriers
• Understanding of person-centred assessment, goal setting and behaviour
• change
• Awareness of safeguarding, confidentiality, professional boundaries and risk escalation
• Ability to manage a caseload and work independently with supervision

Desirable

• Experience in work and health, employment support, social
• prescribing or community services
• Experience of employer liaison or workplace adjustments
• Knowledge of local health, employment, skills and VCFSE services

Qualifications

Essential

• Relevant qualification at Level 3 or
• equivalent experience in health, wellbeing,
• employment, coaching or community support
• Willingness to complete required WorkWell,
• care coordination, health coaching and
• mandatory training

Desirable

• Coaching, employment
• advice, social prescribing,
• vocational support or
• health and wellbeing
• qualification

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Employer details

Employer name

Allied Health Professionals Suffolk CIC

Address

Riverside Clinic

2-4 Landseer Road

Ipswich

IP3 0AZ

United Kingdom

Employer's website

https://www.ahpsuffolk.co.uk/ (Opens in a new tab)