Job responsibilities
TITLE: Health
Coach
DEPARTMENT Service
Delivery - Weight Management Interface Hub
LOCATION: White
Rose Office Park
HOURS OF WORK: Up to 37.5 hours a week
NATURE OF CONTRACT: Fixed term 1 year
ACCOUNTABLE
TO:
Service Delivery & Relationship Manager
ROLE SUMMARY
Working
within the Service Delivery Team as a Health Coach within the Weight Management
Interface Hub, you will support adults and families who are overweight or obese
to achieve sustainable lifestyle change through person-centred, weight
management programmes. Drawing on your experience of helping individuals with
lifestyle modification, you will deliver nutrition, physical activity and
behaviour change interventions through group, one-to-one, community and digital
formats. You will build strong relationships with diverse communities across
Leeds, monitor service user progress using SMART goals, and work
collaboratively with partners to reduce health inequalities and improve
long-term health outcomes
MAIN DUTIES
Working as a Health Coach you will be
working with adults and/or families to support, motivate and advise those who
are currently overweight or obese.
You will be passionate about working
with individuals to begin the life-changing processes necessary for permanent
and continued weight loss and weight maintenance.
You will understand challenges and
barriers that adults face with relation to their health (both physical and
mental) and wellbeing. You will engage with and build a good rapport with
adults from varying communities across Leeds.
You will deliver our programmes of
weight management as well as supporting the development of new nutrition and
exercise programmes that meet the needs of our service users.
The ideal candidate will be passionate
about promoting healthy lifestyles and delivering motivational change which is person
centered.
You will have a background in health
coaching, nutrition, exercise, public health, community health or adult and/or
family weight management and be an excellent team player and have a willingness
to learn and develop.
Duties and
Responsibilities will include;
Service
Delivery
Being part of a wider team that will deliver
our adult weight management programme including nutrition, behaviour change and
exercise delivery to groups and though one-to-ones, in the community and
through digital methods such as video and telephone consultations.
Deliver evidence-based education
around nutrition, physical activity and behavioural change
Deliver programmes with a person centered
approach using skills of positive psychology and motivational interviewing
Monitor service user progress through
regular consultation and identifying specific goals for success
Working with individuals and groups
using SMART goal setting
Keep detailed consultation notes,
recording data accurately, ensuring all forms and other documentation is
completed correctly
Be able to organise own workload in
order of priority and deadlines, daily administration tasks and other
work-related activities.
Undertake and complete all mandatory
and additional skills training as required
Service Development
Work with service users and internal/external
stakeholders to co-produce meaningful session materials
Contribute to the contract performance
by submitting regular case studies to the line manager
Contribute to training and support new
staff
Build community links and partnership
working to encourage new referrals into the service and maintain close working
relationships with other community services.
Relationships
Present service and referral pathway
information at stakeholder meetings/community events as directed by the Service
Delivery and Relationship Manager
To attend and actively participate in
team meetings, such as MDT
Personal Development
To demonstrate personal and
professional development in line with ethos of lifelong learning
To maintain statutory and mandatory
training in line with the Leeds GP Confederation training matrix
Governance
To work within the Leeds GP
Confederation framework of clinical governance in order to maintain and improve
patient care, quality and efficiency
To succeed in
the role, the successful candidate must have;
Significant experience
of supporting people make positive lifestyle change
Significant experience
in working with service users with needs arising from being overweight and
obesity
Significant experience
in working with members of the public from varying backgrounds
A passion for helping
to reduce health inequalities and supporting disadvantaged groups
Working to tight
contractual deadlines and controls
