Health and Wellbeing Coach

Are you skilled in building a supportive, non-judgemental environment with people from all backgrounds?

Are you passionate about supporting people to make healthier lifestyle choices?

Then consider the role of Health & Wellbeing Coach at Reed Wellbeing!

This role will require a London Based candidate and will be a fixed term contract until 31st December 2026.

Who we are

Reed Wellbeing is a public services provider that aims to support people in making sustainable lifestyle changes to improve their physical and mental wellbeing. Since 2015, we have been delivering a range of evidence-based, person centred interventions and services, including: NHS Health Checks, Smoking Cessation, Weight Management and Type 2 Diabetes Prevention and Treatment.

Integrated Health

Our One You Kensington, Chelsea, and Westminster service helps its local residents live healthier lives and reduce their chances of developing serious illnesses. Our support includes guidance on moving more, being tobacco free, eating well, drinking less, and losing weight.

What is the role about?

Health & Wellbeing Coaches are critical to the successful delivery of Reed Wellbeing's world class, evidence-based health and wellbeing behavioural lifestyle interventions. In this role, you'll support a caseload of participants by helping them identify and set realistic health goals and develop the knowledge, motivation, and skills needed to make sustainable lifestyle changes and better manage their conditions.

Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:

Taking Ownership

• Delivering engaging 1:2:1 or group-based health and wellbeing interventions to a caseload of participants either in a face-to-face, remote, or digital setting
• Support participants in developing tailored SMART support plans with the aim to achieve sustainable behavioural and lifestyle improvements

Working Together

• Liaising with healthcare professionals including GPs to promote and generate referrals to the service

Being Fair, Open and Honest

• Capturing key metrics at different points in the participants journey and progress (e.g. weight, alcohol intake) on Reed Wellbeing systems

What's in it for you?

A generous base salary (pro-rata for part time), and great flexibility with your working schedule, we offer training, development and progression opportunities. You will have access to the range of Reed in Partnership benefits, which include:

• 25 days annual leave (pro-rata for part time) plus statutory bank holidays
• Reed Pension Scheme
• Award Winning Management & Leadership training
• Professional & Personal Development Funds
• Bi-annual pay reviews
• Plus much more that can be found on our website

The Health & Wellbeing Coach role offers you the opportunity to directly contribute to our mission by actively empowering people to take control of their lifestyle and make sustainable changes. At Reed in Partnership, our values - Fair, Open & Honest, Take Ownership, and Work Together, guide everything we do. Join us in delivering services that make a real difference.

To be successful in this role, we are looking for someone with:

• An understanding of or interest in working with individuals or groups to achieve behavioural change (e.g. stopping smoking, healthy eating, reduction in alcohol intake).
• Experience of delivering group-based sessions or working with PTs on 1-1 basis
• Excellent communication skills and able to build rapport with a wide range of people.
• Ability to actively listen, empathise and provide personalised support in a non-judgemental way
• Willingness and flexibility to travel to deliver programmes across designated region.
• Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
• Ability to demonstrate coaching or mentoring experience, and persuasion/influencing skills through previous work or social activities

Desirable Attributes:

• REPs Level 3 Exercise Referral Qualification or equivalent; or Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (e.g. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent); or Level 3 qualification in nutrition; or Level 3 Training qualification (e.g. PTTLs / Award in Education & Training)
• Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups (e.g. pregnant smokers, smokers with mental illness, routine and manual workers, young people)
• Fluency in community languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Hindi, Urdu, Punjabi, Somali, Vietnamese, Dari, Yoruba, Turkish, French, Spanish, Albanian, Arabic, Bengali, Farsi, Guajarati, Polish, Serbian and Greek (dependent on location of service delivery).