We are on a mission to be the partner of choice for developing people and their communities. Reed Wellbeing is a public service provider delivering lifestyle and wellbeing programmes that help people improve their health.
Job Description
Are you highly organised and brilliant at establishing an effective rapport with participants?
Do you have an understanding of health-related behaviour change?
Consider the role of Health & Wellbeing Lead Coach at Reed Wellbeing!
Please note: A pplicants must be based in the Manchester area as travel will be required across the region to deliver sessions.
All applicants must have access to their own vehicle
What the job is about:
Health & Wellbeing Lead Coaches are critical to the successful co-ordination of Reed Wellbeing's world class, evidence-based health and wellbeing behaviour lifestyle interventions. They will work closely with the Health & Wellbeing Manager and are responsible for ensuring the smooth running of Reed Wellbeing's health programmes across a specified region to agreed quality standards by co-ordinating the deployment of Health & Wellbeing Coaches to various venues and programmes.
Your main responsibilities would be:
- Co-ordinating Health and Wellbeing Coaches, ensuring they are supported and are up-to-date on relevant training
- Co-ordinating Venues taking into consideration the amount of participant referrals, viability of the venue and possible price negotiations
- Delivering group sessions in accordance to our curriculum, resources and quality standards, empowering our participants to achieve sustained behavioural improvements in their lifestyle and health
- Database and spreadsheet management
- Measuring, monitoring and reporting on participants' progress and programme performance on your programme.
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
- With the chance to dramatically make a difference to the local community, this role offers immense job satisfaction.
At Reed in Partnership, we live and breathe our values in every decision and action taken, resulting in a collaborative and enjoyable culture within our offices. Our company values - we are fair open and honest; we take ownership, and we work together.
Required Skills & Experience:
- Minimum of 5 A*-C grade GCSE's. Including English and Maths.
- REPs Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification or equivalent; or
- Level 3 qualification in health improvement or promotion or public health or equivalent (eg. City & Guilds Level 3 Health Trainer or equivalent); or
- Level 3 qualification in nutrition; or
- Level 3 Training qualification (eg. PTTLs/Award in Education & Training)
- Experience of administrating and/or co-ordinating a number of events and/or programmes at any one time.
- Experience of working with or facilitating diverse participant groups.
- Experience of/interest in working with groups to achieve behavioural or lifestyle changes
- Willingness to undertake evening and weekend work as required.
- Willingness and flexibility to travel in order to deliver programmes across designated region.
Desirable Skills & Experience:
- Demonstrated capability to work with MS Office packages and basic databases.
- Experience in using coaching skills to help individuals to improve their health and/or physical fitness.
- Fluency in community languages. Community languages may include: 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
Diversity and Inclusion
We aim to ensure that no candidate or employee receives less favourable treatment on the grounds of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion or belief, age, gender reassignment, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity. We offer an interview to disabled candidates who meet the minimum criteria