Functional Health Consultant
Tewkesbury or remote
£24-28k depending on experience
Full UK driving license required
This is an exciting and varied role in our Functional Health team, supporting our Corporate Clients with health and wellbeing assessments, health surveillance such as audiometry testing, delivering workshops on health topics to empower employees to lead a healthier happier life. It involves some travel to client sites so a full driving license is required.
About the Role
The Functional Health Consultant works closely with our Case Management team, who will conduct initial assessments of people referred with ill health or injury seeking support and treatment. Depending on the nature of their condition, you will assess and advise on how best to get the individual back to full-health. The team also play a large role in supporting our Corporate clients in ensuring their employees stay as healthy as possible, by delivering workshops and webinars on varied health topics, including exercise and nutrition, conducting fitness to work and other health related assessments such as Know Your Numbers and exercise consultations.
The key responsibilities include:
- Play an active role in the multidisciplinary assessment process by ensuring detailed information is gained sufficient to assess: clinical, personal and occupational and social risk factors, based on the initial assessment by the Case Manager.
- Consider whether the findings suggest that the case can be handled "treated" within your skill set or whether the individual requires an onward referral to another member of the MAT team or an external referral.
- Assist the individual in taking personal responsibility for the longer term and provide them with a plan of action, with scheduled follow ups.
- Identify whether the individual can remain in their normal duties or whether their role needs to be modified in the short term, also consider whether due to any ongoing condition and or age whether alternative duties needs to be considered.
- To effectively communicate to the employee the multifactorial issues associated with the current episode of ill health/injury and how they can personally address the risk factors within their locus of control.
- To achieve the critical success factors within the various aspects of Functional Health including: reduction in sickness absence; reduction in modified duties; minimisation of any cost of 3rd party suppliers including the costs within the Healthcare Plans; prompt return to normal duties and an overall improvement in the individual's ability to self-manage and improve their overall health safety, wellbeing and quality of life.
- To go out on site to deliver Functional Health services when needed which may involve extensive travel and/or overnight stay in a hotel
Benefits
- 25 days annual leave
- Your birthday off
- 6% company pension contribution
- Bike to Work Scheme
- Medicash Health plan
- Enhanced Maternity/Paternity/Adoption and Shared Parental leave
- 2 voluntary days per year
- Long Service Awards
- Employee Wellbeing Seminars
- CPD opportunities
- Professional memberships paid for (role dependent)
Essential Skills
We are ideally looking for someone with a degree/experience in the following:
- Sport and Exercise Science or similar e.g. sports coaching / sports and fitness
- Sports Therapist
- Personal Trainer
- Strength and Conditioning coach or qualification
- Health and fitness coach
- Wellbeing practitioner, specialising in exercise, sleep, nutrition
You will also have strong experience using MS Office suite and other IT systems and tools, be a confident communicator with a professional and empathetic telephone manner and be knowledgeable about clinical and non-clinical care pathways.
About Company
HCML was established in 2003 and is a leading service provider in the rehabilitation and case management arena. Providing services to the insurance, corporate and legal sectors, HCML assists injured and ill individuals to recover and return to work or their pre-injury condition. We are passionate about ensuring that everyone who requires rehabilitation in the UK has access to quality, effective, co-ordinated services. We deliver added value to our clients by facilitating both speedy recovery and strong clinical outcomes, including managing appropriate treatment and care.
DE&I
HCML is committed to equality of opportunity for all staff and applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships